Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4999 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

varievary

ie for a final y, y for i: mercie → mercy, tyme → time.

Puritas changed it: 332 times in 213 works
Consistency: 99.4% (332 of 334)
Reach if approved: ~351 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: vary
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 334 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (332 changes in 213 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 332)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… persons, according as they are diuersly …ake…, would shewe themsel…es diuersly affected, and varievary in their speeches, actions, and conceipts, both publike and priuate. Fourthly, our Witches are …
With rule
… persons, according as they are diuersly …ake…, would shewe themsel…es diuersly affected, and varievary in their speeches, actions, and conceipts, both publike and priuate. Fourthly, our Witches are …
William Perkins · The Damned Art of Witchcraft · p. 191 · Open in the reader
Printed
… upper hand, that none may sitt above them, will needs thrust them into the varievary lowest place even in their owne practice, Iudgements, and Common reputation, where servants or …
With rule
… upper hand, that none may sitt above them, will needs thrust them into the varievary lowest place even in their owne practice, Iudgements, and Common reputation, where servants or …
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
… trembling: in all the workes of God, loue: and ſo foorth as Gods works varievary, ſo our affections muſt moue. In like manner we muſt bee ſtirred with Gods …
With rule
… trembling: in all the workes of God, loue: and ſo foorth as Gods works varievary, ſo our affections muſt moue. In like manner we muſt bee ſtirred with Gods …
John Smyth · A Pattern of True Prayer · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhew out of the authenticke writynges of Chriſt and his Apoſtles the poinctes thei varievary from vs in (as wee vndertake and by Gods grace are able to performe …
With rule
… ſhew out of the authenticke writynges of Chriſt and his Apoſtles the poinctes thei varievary from vs in (as wee vndertake and by Gods grace are able to performe …
Walter Travers · Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics · p. 347 · Open in the reader
Printed
FVLK. 4. When we varievary about the signification of the worde foreign, or in deede when we varievary not in …
With rule
FVLK. 4. When we varievary about the signification of the worde foreign, or in deede when we varievary not in …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 487 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wee beleeue that the Lord hath made vs of sinfull men, iust men; of varievary…s, vessels of righteousnes, and temples of his spirit: if he can make the …
With rule
… wee beleeue that the Lord hath made vs of sinfull men, iust men; of varievary…s, vessels of righteousnes, and temples of his spirit: if he can make the …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 758 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this kind which comprehendeth onely the signes and tokens of goodnesse. Things casuall do varievary, and that which a man doth but chaunce to thinke well of, cannot still …
With rule
… this kind which comprehendeth onely the signes and tokens of goodnesse. Things casuall do varievary, and that which a man doth but chaunce to thinke well of, cannot still …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
… tearme is to be found, and ſo ſhall all interpreters agree, and no man varievary from other: for ſcriptures interpreting ſcriptures, furniſheth one onely veritie, and though ſometimes diuerſe …
With rule
… tearme is to be found, and ſo ſhall all interpreters agree, and no man varievary from other: for ſcriptures interpreting ſcriptures, furniſheth one onely veritie, and though ſometimes diuerſe …
John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.