Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5170 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

signifyedsignified

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

Puritas changed it: 464 times in 193 works
Consistency: 99.5% (464 of 466)
Reach if approved: ~490 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: signified
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 466 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (464 changes in 193 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 464)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the Pope in time past had beene well acquainted, had a reuelation which she signifyedsignified by wryting to the Pope, beseeching him that the sayd day might be kept …
With rule
… the Pope in time past had beene well acquainted, had a reuelation which she signifyedsignified by wryting to the Pope, beseeching him that the sayd day might be kept …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 118 · Open in the reader
Printed
By the fallyng of the tree, is signifyedsignified the death of man. If he fall into the Southe he shall be saued.
With rule
By the fallyng of the tree, is signifyedsignified the death of man. If he fall into the Southe he shall be saued.
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
What is signifyedsignified, I praye you, by all those thynges.
With rule
What is signifyedsignified, I praye you, by all those thynges.
Thomas Becon · A Potion for This Holy Time of Lent · Open in the reader
Printed
… signe, may be Spirituall, to wit, in it self, though the inward power, & thing signifyedsignified be w̄ating. 2^dly, that there is sometymes an outward baptism, & the same so to …
With rule
… signe, may be Spirituall, to wit, in it self, though the inward power, & thing signifyedsignified be w̄ating. 2^dly, that there is sometymes an outward baptism, & the same so to …
John Robinson · Of Religious Communion Private and Public · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… meritorious deade / when to love their neyboure and to forgeve him / which thinge is signifyedsignified therby / they … to do… / nor have power to doo / nor … …hat they are bounde …
With rule
… meritorious deade / when to love their neyboure and to forgeve him / which thinge is signifyedsignified therby / they … to do… / nor have power to doo / nor … …hat they are bounde …
William Tyndale · The Obedience of a Christian Man · p. Cix · Open in the reader
Printed
… wordes, of this matter? By the name, the partie, whoſe name it is, is ſignifyedsignified. Let the Apoſtle Peter expound himſelfe. His name hath made this man ſound, through …
With rule
… wordes, of this matter? By the name, the partie, whoſe name it is, is ſignifyedsignified. Let the Apoſtle Peter expound himſelfe. His name hath made this man ſound, through …
Anthony Wotton · Sermons Upon John 1 · p. 394 · Open in the reader
Printed
… And bringeth it not to the doore of the Tabernable, &c. ſayth: Hereby was ſignifyedsignified that only in the Church, by fayth in the cheife high prieſt Chriſt Ieſus …
With rule
… And bringeth it not to the doore of the Tabernable, &c. ſayth: Hereby was ſignifyedsignified that only in the Church, by fayth in the cheife high prieſt Chriſt Ieſus …
John Canne · A Stay Against Straying · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they enquired of him, whether he, for his part, did reſt therein, and he ſignifyedsignified his conſent with them. Theſe things being premiſed, J demand, by what pretence, will …
With rule
… they enquired of him, whether he, for his part, did reſt therein, and he ſignifyedsignified his conſent with them. Theſe things being premiſed, J demand, by what pretence, will …
John Davenport · Reply to a Book · p. 129 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Right Reckoning of Years and Ages of the World A09841

Printed
… Iubilees: and from thence to our time, to wit, to 1589. year of Christ, 31. Iubilees. SignifyedSignified by the Evangelist Iohn, in his Revelation, by the space of the blowing of …
With rule
… Iubilees: and from thence to our time, to wit, to 1589. year of Christ, 31. Iubilees. SignifyedSignified by the Evangelist Iohn, in his Revelation, by the space of the blowing of …
Robert Pont · The Right Reckoning of Years and Ages of the World · p. 78 · Open in the reader