Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5070 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dexteritiedexterity

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

Puritas changed it: 278 times in 185 works
Consistency: 92.6% (278 of 300)
Reach if approved: ~315 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: dexterity
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 300 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (278 changes in 185 works, 92.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 278)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of the treasure which it containes. It hath euer had the dignitie as the dexteritiedexterity.
With rule
… of the treasure which it containes. It hath euer had the dignitie as the dexteritiedexterity.
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 247 · Open in the reader
Printed
… could dy; longer meditation might bring better and stronger proofes to mind then extemporall dexteritiedexterity could furnish him with; and who doth know whether time the only mother of …
With rule
… could dy; longer meditation might bring better and stronger proofes to mind then extemporall dexteritiedexterity could furnish him with; and who doth know whether time the only mother of …
Richard Hooker · Answer to Supplication Preferred by Walter Tavers · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… enter into the Sheepe-fold of Chriſt: And others, by gathering together all their dexteritiedexterity and quickeneſſe of fraudes, ſophiſmes, and lies, labouring to vpholde his ſeate from falling …
With rule
… enter into the Sheepe-fold of Chriſt: And others, by gathering together all their dexteritiedexterity and quickeneſſe of fraudes, ſophiſmes, and lies, labouring to vpholde his ſeate from falling …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · Open in the reader
Printed
… But at Erford, he met wyth the Dialectique of that tyme, the whych (by dexteritiedexterity and redynes of wytte, vnderſt andyng more exactly the cauſes & ſprynges of inſtruction, then …
With rule
… But at Erford, he met wyth the Dialectique of that tyme, the whych (by dexteritiedexterity and redynes of wytte, vnderſt andyng more exactly the cauſes & ſprynges of inſtruction, then …
Philipp Melanchthon · History of Three Renowned Reformers · Open in the reader
Printed
… profound knowledge in all learning, his prudent zeale, his mature iudgement, with an admirable dexteritiedexterity and facilitie, yea I may say felicitie, (for herein hee raigned, that I may …
With rule
… profound knowledge in all learning, his prudent zeale, his mature iudgement, with an admirable dexteritiedexterity and facilitie, yea I may say felicitie, (for herein hee raigned, that I may …
William Perkins · Exposition of Jude · Open in the reader
Printed
… unto varietie of Objects, treasured up in the Memorie; or of apprehending new, with dexteritiedexterity; not that floating and inconstant humour, whereby it makes many needlesse excursions upon impertinent …
With rule
… unto varietie of Objects, treasured up in the Memorie; or of apprehending new, with dexteritiedexterity; not that floating and inconstant humour, whereby it makes many needlesse excursions upon impertinent …
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
All theſe, how willingly will they be imployed about that we love? with what dexteritiedexterity, what diligence, what expedition will they behave themſelves therein? Well might Plato deſcant upon …
With rule
All theſe, how willingly will they be imployed about that we love? with what dexteritiedexterity, what diligence, what expedition will they behave themſelves therein? Well might Plato deſcant upon …
John Stoughton · The Heavenly Conversation and Natural Mans Condition · p. 137 · Open in the reader
Printed
2. His dexteritiedexterity and slynesse is another cause, whereby he can make one ground, and that a …
With rule
2. His dexteritiedexterity and slynesse is another cause, whereby he can make one ground, and that a …
Thomas Taylor · Christs Combat and Conquest · p. 197 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (22)

18 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 13 are listed here. 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 A41659

Printed
2. foreign, DexteritieDexterity, or Sagacitie. 288, 289
With rule
2. foreign, DexteritieDexterity, or Sagacitie. 288, 289
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Its Genus, foreign, which connotes Prudence: wherein conſider, its Objects, Offices, and Acts, which are, 1. foreign, 2. foreign DexteritieDexterity, foreign Sagacitie, foreign, 3. foreign. 2. The ſubject of Moral Prudence, foreign, and particularly the Conſcience: Plato's foreign, Law of Conſcience …
With rule
… Its Genus, foreign, which connotes Prudence: wherein conſider, its Objects, Offices, and Acts, which are, 1. foreign, 2. foreign DexteritieDexterity, foreign Sagacitie, foreign, 3. foreign. 2. The ſubject of Moral Prudence, foreign, and particularly the Conſcience: Plato's foreign, Law of Conſcience …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 282 · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles Part 3 A41681

Printed
… takes the wiſe in their own craftineſſe. foreign, from foreign, ſignifies al manner of Calliditie, or DexteritieDexterity to cheat and deceive; an art of cheating; wherein many Corinthian Sophiſtes or Gnoſtics …
With rule
… takes the wiſe in their own craftineſſe. foreign, from foreign, ſignifies al manner of Calliditie, or DexteritieDexterity to cheat and deceive; an art of cheating; wherein many Corinthian Sophiſtes or Gnoſtics …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 3 · p. 99 · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 A41688

Printed
foreign, DexteritieDexterity, what 3
With rule
foreign, DexteritieDexterity, what 3
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Its Genus, foreign, which connotes Prudence: wherein conſider its Objects, Offices, and Acts: which are, [1] foreign, [2] foreign DexteritieDexterity, [3] foreign Sagacitie, and foreign, [4] foreign. (2) The ſubject of Moral Prudence, foreign, and particularly the Conſcience: Plato's foreign, Law of …
With rule
… Its Genus, foreign, which connotes Prudence: wherein conſider its Objects, Offices, and Acts: which are, [1] foreign, [2] foreign DexteritieDexterity, [3] foreign Sagacitie, and foreign, [4] foreign. (2) The ſubject of Moral Prudence, foreign, and particularly the Conſcience: Plato's foreign, Law of …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fear, but always to uſe caution, &c. (2) Another part of moral Prudence is foreign, a DexteritieDexterity in judging things: which in the Platonic Deſinitions, pag. 413. is thus defined: foreign, Facilitie of …
With rule
… fear, but always to uſe caution, &c. (2) Another part of moral Prudence is foreign, a DexteritieDexterity in judging things: which in the Platonic Deſinitions, pag. 413. is thus defined: foreign, Facilitie of …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of a wel qualified Magiſtrate. [1] He muſt be inveſted with a natural Sagacitie and DexteritieDexterity of judging Perſons and Things. Thus Plato, Repub. 2. pag. 376. compares the Sagacitie of a …
With rule
… of a wel qualified Magiſtrate. [1] He muſt be inveſted with a natural Sagacitie and DexteritieDexterity of judging Perſons and Things. Thus Plato, Repub. 2. pag. 376. compares the Sagacitie of a …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 195 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Souldiers by name, whoſe beck and nod every one obeys. Such is the admirable DexteritieDexterity and Domination of Divine Gubernation. But whence ſprings al this? that follows: By the …
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… Souldiers by name, whoſe beck and nod every one obeys. Such is the admirable DexteritieDexterity and Domination of Divine Gubernation. But whence ſprings al this? that follows: By the …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 472 · Open in the reader

The Saints Amity with God in Christ A41751

Printed
3. DexteritieDexterity in the Diſpoſement of means, a fundamental ingredient of friendſhip with Chriſt. p. 24, 25.
With rule
3. DexteritieDexterity in the Diſpoſement of means, a fundamental ingredient of friendſhip with Chriſt. p. 24, 25.
Theophilus Gale · The Saints Amity with God in Christ · Open in the reader
Printed
(5.) DexteritieDexterity properly ſo termed. p. 29,—34
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(5.) DexteritieDexterity properly ſo termed. p. 29,—34
Theophilus Gale · The Saints Amity with God in Christ · Open in the reader
Printed
… order to the more ſpeedy and effectual proſecution of the end. This they cal DexteritieDexterity or Facilitie of Judgement; which is extremely neceſſary in al moral actions, and no …
With rule
… order to the more ſpeedy and effectual proſecution of the end. This they cal DexteritieDexterity or Facilitie of Judgement; which is extremely neceſſary in al moral actions, and no …
Theophilus Gale · The Saints Amity with God in Christ · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that there be no diſſonance, or jarring found amongſt them. Hence this Perſpicacitie or DexteritieDexterity is defined by the Platoniſt, a connatural virtue of reaſoning, or a virtuous Logick …
With rule
… that there be no diſſonance, or jarring found amongſt them. Hence this Perſpicacitie or DexteritieDexterity is defined by the Platoniſt, a connatural virtue of reaſoning, or a virtuous Logick …
Theophilus Gale · The Saints Amity with God in Christ · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſoverainly efficacious, and expedient for the begetting this ſacred order, than this ſpiritual, prudent DexteritieDexterity, which we have been treating of? Spiritual light and prudence is the beſt orderer …
With rule
… ſoverainly efficacious, and expedient for the begetting this ſacred order, than this ſpiritual, prudent DexteritieDexterity, which we have been treating of? Spiritual light and prudence is the beſt orderer …
Theophilus Gale · The Saints Amity with God in Christ · p. 29 · Open in the reader