Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5117 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

loftielofty

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

Puritas changed it: 366 times in 208 works
Consistency: 97.6% (366 of 375)
Reach if approved: ~394 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: lofty
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 375 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (366 changes in 208 works, 97.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 366)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… passages, the space of an hundred steppes: on the toppe whereof, round about, were loftielofty Roomes, in which the keepers of the Temple, and they which made themselues chaste …
With rule
… passages, the space of an hundred steppes: on the toppe whereof, round about, were loftielofty Roomes, in which the keepers of the Temple, and they which made themselues chaste …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 483 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the North; it is the Citie of the great King. God in the loftielofty palaces therof, knowne he is for an high refuge. For loe the Kings were …
With rule
… of the North; it is the Citie of the great King. God in the loftielofty palaces therof, knowne he is for an high refuge. For loe the Kings were …
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their loftielofty lookes we bewray not our ſelues to be high minded, becauſe ſuch loftielofty looks are made a note of an high mind; and a proud looke is …
With rule
… their loftielofty lookes we bewray not our ſelues to be high minded, becauſe ſuch loftielofty looks are made a note of an high mind; and a proud looke is …
Thomas Stoughton · The Christians Sacrifice Better than all the Legal Sacrifices of Jews · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… her selfe aboue her equalls, disdaines her inferiours, dishonours her place by an ouer-loftielofty or an ouer-base and contemptible behauiour in the same. She alienates the hearts …
With rule
… her selfe aboue her equalls, disdaines her inferiours, dishonours her place by an ouer-loftielofty or an ouer-base and contemptible behauiour in the same. She alienates the hearts …
Hannibal Gamon · The Praise of a Godly Woman · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… pinacle of Pryde, and to put on the Kepstone of Absolute Monarchie, on his loftielofty and triple-crowned head, for the completing of the Mysterie of Iniquitie, and full …
With rule
… pinacle of Pryde, and to put on the Kepstone of Absolute Monarchie, on his loftielofty and triple-crowned head, for the completing of the Mysterie of Iniquitie, and full …
William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 258 · Open in the reader
Printed
… eminontes aedes ſuas in plano ſubmiſit: hee levell'd with the ground his high and loftielofty buildings leſt hee ſhould offend the people with the appearance of a cittadell, and …
With rule
… eminontes aedes ſuas in plano ſubmiſit: hee levell'd with the ground his high and loftielofty buildings leſt hee ſhould offend the people with the appearance of a cittadell, and …
Henry Jeanes · Concerning a Christians Careful Abstinence from All Appearance of Evil · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and contempte. GOD would haue his children sober and lowly, and not proude and loftielofty. But they that therby take occasion to be disdainfull and arrogant, although they were …
With rule
… and contempte. GOD would haue his children sober and lowly, and not proude and loftielofty. But they that therby take occasion to be disdainfull and arrogant, although they were …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader
Printed
4. Humbly, not with a loftielofty looke, imperious, and ſupercilious countenance, but with a lowly ſpirit, and humble deportment; when …
With rule
4. Humbly, not with a loftielofty looke, imperious, and ſupercilious countenance, but with a lowly ſpirit, and humble deportment; when …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 242 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

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

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

Printed
… Isaac vppon the booke of the Creation maketh three nomberings, (which he termeth the LoftieLofty one) in the Ensoph, that is to say, in the Infinite, that is to …
With rule
… Isaac vppon the booke of the Creation maketh three nomberings, (which he termeth the LoftieLofty one) in the Ensoph, that is to say, in the Infinite, that is to …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 77 · Open in the reader

The Unloveliness of Love-Locks A10199

Printed
… and the wrath of the Lord of Hosts, shall rest vpon euery Proud, and LoftieLofty person, who is high, and lifted vp, to bring him low, that the Lord …
With rule
… and the wrath of the Lord of Hosts, shall rest vpon euery Proud, and LoftieLofty person, who is high, and lifted vp, to bring him low, that the Lord …
William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · Open in the reader

Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism A29753

Printed
… his natural Enduements; as he used Esaias to express his minde, in an High, LoftieLofty and Court-like stile; and Amos, being an herd man, to express his minde …
With rule
… his natural Enduements; as he used Esaias to express his minde, in an High, LoftieLofty and Court-like stile; and Amos, being an herd man, to express his minde …
John Brown · Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism · p. 52 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

Printed
LoftieLofty]
With rule
LoftieLofty]
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 387 · Open in the reader
Printed
LoftieLofty looks]
With rule
LoftieLofty looks]
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 387 · Open in the reader