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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5171 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

singularitiesingularity

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

Puritas changed it
308 times in 178 works
Consistency
90.3% (308 of 341)
Reach if approved
~358 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: singularity
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
341 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (308 changes in 178 works, 90.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 308)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    In Lycurgus (to Iulians seeming) there was some singularitiesingularity. The people were so rude and headstrong that they put out one of his …
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    In Lycurgus (to Iulians seeming) there was some singularitiesingularity. The people were so rude and headstrong that they put out one of his …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 614 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … conscience doth witnesse with me I did it in simplicitie, and without affectation of singularitiesingularity. And if it were no presumption in Gillebertus to finish Bernards Sermons vpon the …
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    … conscience doth witnesse with me I did it in simplicitie, and without affectation of singularitiesingularity. And if it were no presumption in Gillebertus to finish Bernards Sermons vpon the …

    William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of the vngodly, who bayte them with the names of hypocrites, and men of ſingularitiesingularity, ſeeing they declare that out by their good liues, which they imbrace with their …
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    … of the vngodly, who bayte them with the names of hypocrites, and men of ſingularitiesingularity, ſeeing they declare that out by their good liues, which they imbrace with their …

    Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 641 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … but ſpecially in thoſe blood thirſtie wolues the Ieſuites, who will bragge of a ſingularitiesingularity in puritie, and yet will ſtirre vp princes and all other fauourers of their …
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    … but ſpecially in thoſe blood thirſtie wolues the Ieſuites, who will bragge of a ſingularitiesingularity in puritie, and yet will ſtirre vp princes and all other fauourers of their …

    Archibald Simson · Exposition on the Seven Psalms of Repentance · p. 236 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … thing in vs, makes the head rume of some rheumaticke opinion, or madde factious singularitiesingularity: and this petulant rheume in the braine, keeps the conscience raw stil; that the …
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    … thing in vs, makes the head rume of some rheumaticke opinion, or madde factious singularitiesingularity: and this petulant rheume in the braine, keeps the conscience raw stil; that the …

    Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 55 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … and plaine-dealing Shepheard, as raſhneſſe, indiſcretion, too much ſtricktneſſe and preciſeneſſe, affectation of ſingularitiesingularity, phantaſticalneſſe, by which tearmes they ſhew themſelues like to the bloody and earthly Edomites …
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    … and plaine-dealing Shepheard, as raſhneſſe, indiſcretion, too much ſtricktneſſe and preciſeneſſe, affectation of ſingularitiesingularity, phantaſticalneſſe, by which tearmes they ſhew themſelues like to the bloody and earthly Edomites …

    Thomas Granger · The Application of Scripture · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … are, that they may not be hit in the teeth with preciſeneſſe, and odious ſingularitiesingularity: For the Sabbath, they will rather follow the Diuell in a great company to …
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    … are, that they may not be hit in the teeth with preciſeneſſe, and odious ſingularitiesingularity: For the Sabbath, they will rather follow the Diuell in a great company to …

    Robert Horne · The Shield of Righteousness · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the Ieſuites, is both vaine and friuolous, when they ſay, that it either ſignifieth ſingularitiesingularity, and ſo to be vniuerſall, is to be the onely Biſhop of the world …
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    … the Ieſuites, is both vaine and friuolous, when they ſay, that it either ſignifieth ſingularitiesingularity, and ſo to be vniuerſall, is to be the onely Biſhop of the world …

    Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 173 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (33)

22 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 19 are listed here. 11 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture A00415

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    SingularitieSingularity.
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    SingularitieSingularity.

    George Estey · Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture · p. 13 · Open in the reader

Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments A00416

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    The party is God, who is set out partly by Repetion. Partly by SingularitieSingularity.
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    The party is God, who is set out partly by Repetion. Partly by SingularitieSingularity.

    George Estey · Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader

Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies A09002

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    … an ambition and vaynglorie, ſtuffed the margent with quotations. Being charged with Noueltie and SingularitieSingularity, I was in all wiſedome to dye my ſelfe in a tincture concolor mortuis …
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    … an ambition and vaynglorie, ſtuffed the margent with quotations. Being charged with Noueltie and SingularitieSingularity, I was in all wiſedome to dye my ſelfe in a tincture concolor mortuis …

    Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · Open in the reader

The Unloveliness of Love-Locks A10199

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    … these Loue-lockes, is as great, (if not a greater) badge of Leuitie. Vanitie, SingularitieSingularity, and Effeminacy, as the nourishing of all the Haire: therefore both of them are …
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    … these Loue-lockes, is as great, (if not a greater) badge of Leuitie. Vanitie, SingularitieSingularity, and Effeminacy, as the nourishing of all the Haire: therefore both of them are …

    William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 9 · Open in the reader

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    Lastly, that which sauours of Leuitie, Vanitie, Pride, Vain…glory, SingularitieSingularity, Eff…minacy, Wantonnesse, Lasciuiousnesse, Licentiousnesse, Selfe-conceitednesse, or the like, must needes bee contrary …
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    Lastly, that which sauours of Leuitie, Vanitie, Pride, Vain…glory, SingularitieSingularity, Eff…minacy, Wantonnesse, Lasciuiousnesse, Licentiousnesse, Selfe-conceitednesse, or the like, must needes bee contrary …

    William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … this bee not Affected, Grosse, and Wilfull SingularitieSingularity, there is no such thing as SingularitieSingularity, or breach of Ciuill societie in the World. This Martiall, and Tertullian knew: whence …
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    … this bee not Affected, Grosse, and Wilfull SingularitieSingularity, there is no such thing as SingularitieSingularity, or breach of Ciuill societie in the World. This Martiall, and Tertullian knew: whence …

    William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 24 · Open in the reader

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    … authorities in the Margent testifie: It was noted as a point of Shamelesnesse, and SingularitieSingularity in Nero, though an Emperour; that hee oftentimes wore his Haire combed backeward into …
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    … authorities in the Margent testifie: It was noted as a point of Shamelesnesse, and SingularitieSingularity in Nero, though an Emperour; that hee oftentimes wore his Haire combed backeward into …

    William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 24 · Open in the reader

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    … and d…formed Locke. And is not this a sure Badge, and Character, of SingularitieSingularity, and Auersnesse: is it not a kinde of breach, of ciuill societie; and a …
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    … and d…formed Locke. And is not this a sure Badge, and Character, of SingularitieSingularity, and Auersnesse: is it not a kinde of breach, of ciuill societie; and a …

    William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 24 · Open in the reader

Exposition of 1 Thessalonians A11591

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    Thirdly, Loue of vnitie and ſtudie of it. SingularitieSingularity and turbulencie muſt bee as farre as any thing, from the courſes of a …
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    Thirdly, Loue of vnitie and ſtudie of it. SingularitieSingularity and turbulencie muſt bee as farre as any thing, from the courſes of a …

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 202 · Open in the reader

Two Sermons A20744

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    … appointed thee. From whence wee may gather a threefolde superioritie of Bishoppes; the first, SingularitieSingularity of preeminence, during life: I left thee, that thou sholdest &c. The second, the …
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    … appointed thee. From whence wee may gather a threefolde superioritie of Bishoppes; the first, SingularitieSingularity of preeminence, during life: I left thee, that thou sholdest &c. The second, the …

    George Downame · Two Sermons · p. 32 · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 A41688

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    … regard of their Quantitie, i. e. their Extenſion or Reſtriction; their Ʋniverſalitie, Particularitie, and SingularitieSingularity. Now the mind of Man having been by the Fal much wounded and diſabled …
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    … regard of their Quantitie, i. e. their Extenſion or Reſtriction; their Ʋniverſalitie, Particularitie, and SingularitieSingularity. Now the mind of Man having been by the Fal much wounded and diſabled …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 4 · Open in the reader

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    4. Moral Libertie as to ſtate importes Nobilitie, Dignitie, Eminence, Excellence, SingularitieSingularity, Separation, and Magnitude or Greatneſſe of Diſpoſition, and Condition of Life. And are not …
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    4. Moral Libertie as to ſtate importes Nobilitie, Dignitie, Eminence, Excellence, SingularitieSingularity, Separation, and Magnitude or Greatneſſe of Diſpoſition, and Condition of Life. And are not …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 82 · Open in the reader

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    … indeed al the notions of Virtue or Sanctitie in ſacred Philoſophie import Diſcretion, Separation, SingularitieSingularity, Preeminence. Thus foreign, holy, is derived from foreign, to ſeparate from commun uſe: and it is …
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    … indeed al the notions of Virtue or Sanctitie in ſacred Philoſophie import Diſcretion, Separation, SingularitieSingularity, Preeminence. Thus foreign, holy, is derived from foreign, to ſeparate from commun uſe: and it is …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 82 · Open in the reader

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    … defined always to exiſte, foreign; namely that which is Equalitie it ſelf, Beautie it ſelf, SingularitieSingularity it ſelf, doth it admit any mutation? Or truely can any of thoſe, namely …
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    … defined always to exiſte, foreign; namely that which is Equalitie it ſelf, Beautie it ſelf, SingularitieSingularity it ſelf, doth it admit any mutation? Or truely can any of thoſe, namely …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 259 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

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    SingularitieSingularity: A diſſwaſion from the affectation of it. …95
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    SingularitieSingularity: A diſſwaſion from the affectation of it. …95

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · Open in the reader

The Saints Sure and Perpetual Guide A68954

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    … the top of the upmoſt boughes, and foure or five in the high branches. SingularitieSingularity then of ſanctification, is no fruit of Pride, but an inſeparable marke and neceſſarie …
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    … the top of the upmoſt boughes, and foure or five in the high branches. SingularitieSingularity then of ſanctification, is no fruit of Pride, but an inſeparable marke and neceſſarie …

    Robert Bolton · The Saints Sure and Perpetual Guide · p. 131 · Open in the reader

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    … Times to the men of this World; After the way, which you call Preciſeneſſe, SingularitieSingularity, and Faction, doe wee truly ſerve the living God, and ſave our ſoules.
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    … Times to the men of this World; After the way, which you call Preciſeneſſe, SingularitieSingularity, and Faction, doe wee truly ſerve the living God, and ſave our ſoules.

    Robert Bolton · The Saints Sure and Perpetual Guide · p. 238 · Open in the reader

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    SingularitieSingularity, what required, and what not. 128
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    SingularitieSingularity, what required, and what not. 128

    Robert Bolton · The Saints Sure and Perpetual Guide · Open in the reader

Humility the Saints Livery B12016

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    … not to familiaritie, yet to common courtesie. I conclude this part of his practise: SingularitieSingularity in any of these, in words, in apparel, in companie, is to shew our …
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    … not to familiaritie, yet to common courtesie. I conclude this part of his practise: SingularitieSingularity in any of these, in words, in apparel, in companie, is to shew our …

    Daniel Cawdry · Humility the Saints Livery · p. 22 · Open in the reader