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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5140 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

phylosophersphilosophers

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

Puritas changed it
164 times in 111 works
Consistency
92.1% (164 of 178)
Reach if approved
~187 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: philosophers
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
178 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (164 changes in 111 works, 92.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 164)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … be brideled and pluckt in with this outwarde diſcipline. let the teachyngꝭ of the PhyloſophersPhilosophers be in the middes of the greate multitude of the people, let them behold …
    With rule
    … be brideled and pluckt in with this outwarde diſcipline. let the teachyngꝭ of the PhyloſophersPhilosophers be in the middes of the greate multitude of the people, let them behold …

    Philipp Melanchthon · The Justification of Man by Faith Only · p. x · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … handfull, not to swill thy belly full. If Plato could tell the Musitians, that PhylosophersPhilosophers could dine and sup without them, How much more easie is it for Saint …
    With rule
    … handfull, not to swill thy belly full. If Plato could tell the Musitians, that PhylosophersPhilosophers could dine and sup without them, How much more easie is it for Saint …

    Samuel Ward · The Life of Faith · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … will not bee mooued any thing at all, either with the authorities of Poets, PhyloſophersPhilosophers, Oratours, or other prophane writers whatſoeuer; neither yet with the reaſons, that may be …
    With rule
    … will not bee mooued any thing at all, either with the authorities of Poets, PhyloſophersPhilosophers, Oratours, or other prophane writers whatſoeuer; neither yet with the reaſons, that may be …

    Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · p. 709 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … do by your Morral Natural Principles of Humanity: For even some of your BRAVE PhylosophersPhilosophers, whose Godliness you have so much aplauded, were even then in the must of …
    With rule
    … do by your Morral Natural Principles of Humanity: For even some of your BRAVE PhylosophersPhilosophers, whose Godliness you have so much aplauded, were even then in the must of …

    John Bunyan · A Defense of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith in Jesus Christ · p. 111 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    The Colleges of the Pythagorian PhylosophersPhilosophers that were dispersed through the Cities of Italy, were banished by the faction of …
    With rule
    The Colleges of the Pythagorian PhylosophersPhilosophers that were dispersed through the Cities of Italy, were banished by the faction of …

    Samuel Clarke · The Life and Death of Hannibal · p. 68 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … fountaine of all hereſies, and the magnifying of free-will hath brought forth, in PhyloſophersPhilosophers, the ignorance; in Pelagians, the denial; and in Papiſts, the extenuation of original ſinne …
    With rule
    … fountaine of all hereſies, and the magnifying of free-will hath brought forth, in PhyloſophersPhilosophers, the ignorance; in Pelagians, the denial; and in Papiſts, the extenuation of original ſinne …

    Samuel Crook · Divine Characters in Two Parts · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … in the very ſtreets and publike Congregations: So that had that conceit of thoſe PhyloſophersPhilosophers, of Tranſmigration of the ſouls of men and women into beaſts been true, we …
    With rule
    … in the very ſtreets and publike Congregations: So that had that conceit of thoſe PhyloſophersPhilosophers, of Tranſmigration of the ſouls of men and women into beaſts been true, we …

    Ralph Farmer · The Quakers Throne of Truth Satans Seat of Lies · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … decrees, and reade him publikely in your Schooles. What esteeme Aristotle is in with PhylosophersPhilosophers, Hypocrates with Physitians, Euclides with Geometricians, Iohannes de sacro Bosco with Astronomers, Ptolomey with …
    With rule
    … decrees, and reade him publikely in your Schooles. What esteeme Aristotle is in with PhylosophersPhilosophers, Hypocrates with Physitians, Euclides with Geometricians, Iohannes de sacro Bosco with Astronomers, Ptolomey with …

    Daniel Featley · Transubstantiation Exploded · p. 140 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 10 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Image of Both Churches in Revelation A02872

  • Printed
    … haue not only brought into the christian Churche by theyr preachings many of theyr phylosophersphilosophers whose glory hath bene their wisdome and learning, but also theyr princely potentates, whose …
    With rule
    … haue not only brought into the christian Churche by theyr preachings many of theyr phylosophersphilosophers whose glory hath bene their wisdome and learning, but also theyr princely potentates, whose …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

The Institutes of the Christian Religion A17662

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    But if we loke to ye fower kindes of causes, which the phylosophersphilosophers …eache vs to cōsider in the effect of thinges, we shal find yt none …
    With rule
    But if we loke to ye fower kindes of causes, which the phylosophersphilosophers …eache vs to cōsider in the effect of thinges, we shal find yt none …

    John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader

The Badges of Christianity A22474

  • Printed
    … properly: neither can all the senses be … in their proper obiects, as euen the phylosophersphilosophers themselues do teach, and that truely,
    With rule
    … properly: neither can all the senses be … in their proper obiects, as euen the phylosophersphilosophers themselues do teach, and that truely,

    William Attersoll · The Badges of Christianity · p. 249 · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

  • Printed
    … if Saintes bée neceſſary to bée mediatours for vs, then is Chriſt vnſufficient: for phyloſophersphilosophers did neuer put ij. cauſes where as one was ſufficient: and if any thing …
    With rule
    … if Saintes bée neceſſary to bée mediatours for vs, then is Chriſt vnſufficient: for phyloſophersphilosophers did neuer put ij. cauſes where as one was ſufficient: and if any thing …

    William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 346 · Open in the reader