Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5096 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

holyerholier

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

Puritas changed it: 149 times in 100 works
Consistency: 97.3% (149 of 153)
Reach if approved: ~162 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: holier
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 154 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (149 changes in 100 works, 97.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 149)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Christes body absent, nor this sentence, that the bread and wyne be neuer the holyerholier after consecration, nor that Christes body is none otherwyse present in the Sacrament, but …
With rule
… Christes body absent, nor this sentence, that the bread and wyne be neuer the holyerholier after consecration, nor that Christes body is none otherwyse present in the Sacrament, but …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Church, let not the Tyrannical Fooliſh and Wicked, but thoſe that ſhall be wiſer, holyerholier and more faithfully and ſucceſfully diligent ſucceed us.
With rule
… Church, let not the Tyrannical Fooliſh and Wicked, but thoſe that ſhall be wiſer, holyerholier and more faithfully and ſucceſfully diligent ſucceed us.
Richard Baxter · Sacrilegious Desertion of the Holy Ministry Rebuked · p. 116 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are tranſgreſſors of the Law, Iſa. 1.12, 13. Will a man be wiſer then his maker, holyerholier then the Law-giver? Joſh. 1.7, 8. To deviſe a worſhip better then God hath appointed …
With rule
… are tranſgreſſors of the Law, Iſa. 1.12, 13. Will a man be wiſer then his maker, holyerholier then the Law-giver? Joſh. 1.7, 8. To deviſe a worſhip better then God hath appointed …
John Cotton · Commentary on 1 John · p. 235 · Open in the reader
Printed
… put forth, wherby eyther Christe is more glorificd, or els Christes people made more holyerholier? I appele to your own conscience. How chaunced this? how came this thus? because …
With rule
… put forth, wherby eyther Christe is more glorificd, or els Christes people made more holyerholier? I appele to your own conscience. How chaunced this? how came this thus? because …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… if it bee received with giuing of thankes. 1. Tim. 4.4. Wherefore he that inventeth an holyerholier vſe of Gods creatures then that wherunto they were ordained, doth as it were …
With rule
… if it bee received with giuing of thankes. 1. Tim. 4.4. Wherefore he that inventeth an holyerholier vſe of Gods creatures then that wherunto they were ordained, doth as it were …
Symon Presse · Sermon Preached 3 August 1596 · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… crucifyenge him agayne: it were better that th… … than dayly thi… … holye a ſacrame… … holyerholier entent inſ… … and executed in th… … mityue churche / in t… … appoſtles / wherfore I … by …
With rule
… crucifyenge him agayne: it were better that th… … than dayly thi… … holye a ſacrame… … holyerholier entent inſ… … and executed in th… … mityue churche / in t… … appoſtles / wherfore I … by …
Martin Bucer · Pictures not to be Worshiped · Open in the reader
Printed
… be ſuch as in their owne conceit do ſay; Touch mee not, I am holyerholier then thou. But ſyr, God is comming downe with the ſhout of an Archangell …
With rule
… be ſuch as in their owne conceit do ſay; Touch mee not, I am holyerholier then thou. But ſyr, God is comming downe with the ſhout of an Archangell …
William Whately · The View and Downfall of Pride · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wee muſt divide it by reaching from hand to hand. The bread is not holyerholier then the wine, and Chriſt ſaide in the plurall number, Take yee, Eate yee …
With rule
… wee muſt divide it by reaching from hand to hand. The bread is not holyerholier then the wine, and Chriſt ſaide in the plurall number, Take yee, Eate yee …
David Calderwood · A Dispute Upon Communicating at our Confused Communions · p. 11 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

2 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.

A Saint or a Brute A27016

Printed
Quer. 18. Are not thoſe that Believe the Life to come of HolyerHolier lives (for the generality) then thoſe that do not? And whether is it like …
With rule
Quer. 18. Are not thoſe that Believe the Life to come of HolyerHolier lives (for the generality) then thoſe that do not? And whether is it like …
Richard Baxter · A Saint or a Brute · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
… holy Duties: and that is their fitneſs for eternal Happineſs. If Angels were not HolyerHolier then Devils, and godly men then the ungodly, Heaven could not hold them, nor …
With rule
… holy Duties: and that is their fitneſs for eternal Happineſs. If Angels were not HolyerHolier then Devils, and godly men then the ungodly, Heaven could not hold them, nor …
Richard Baxter · A Saint or a Brute · p. 243 · Open in the reader