Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5175 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

solitariesolitary

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

Puritas changed it: 334 times in 166 works
Consistency: 98.5% (334 of 339)
Reach if approved: ~356 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: solitary
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 339 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (334 changes in 166 works, 98.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 334)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… any hope of restoring, but to the greater horrour: for in those desert and solitariesolitary houses, shall Zijm, and Ohijm dwell, that is spirits and Goblins: Ostriches shall there …
With rule
… any hope of restoring, but to the greater horrour: for in those desert and solitariesolitary houses, shall Zijm, and Ohijm dwell, that is spirits and Goblins: Ostriches shall there …
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · p. 117 · Open in the reader
Printed
… blessing vpon Ierusalem, and the contrarie a great curse: How doth the Citie remaine solitariesolitary that was full of people? her blessing was fulnesse of people, her plague solitarines …
With rule
… blessing vpon Ierusalem, and the contrarie a great curse: How doth the Citie remaine solitariesolitary that was full of people? her blessing was fulnesse of people, her plague solitarines …
Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Solitarius, signifyeth all one. I graunte this to be so, yet these be so solitariesolitary, that they be not alone, but accompanyed with great flockes of fraternities. And I …
With rule
… Solitarius, signifyeth all one. I graunte this to be so, yet these be so solitariesolitary, that they be not alone, but accompanyed with great flockes of fraternities. And I …
Hugh Latimer · Sermon Before Parliament Began · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſure way to ouerthrow the faith: namelie he draue men into the wilderneſſe and ſolitariesolitary places, which partlie happened by perſecution, and partlie by a blinde deuotion, and ſo …
With rule
… ſure way to ouerthrow the faith: namelie he draue men into the wilderneſſe and ſolitariesolitary places, which partlie happened by perſecution, and partlie by a blinde deuotion, and ſo …
Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 235 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a new world, or leauing the fellowship of men, betake our selues to some solitariesolitary desert, as sundrie Eremites, and Anchorites haue done, because they could not (by reason …
With rule
… a new world, or leauing the fellowship of men, betake our selues to some solitariesolitary desert, as sundrie Eremites, and Anchorites haue done, because they could not (by reason …
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 488 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bigge as Europe, and yet not so much peopled: Nature hauing made heere her solitariesolitary place of retiring, attended by scorching heates, and showers of sands, as a counterfeit …
With rule
… bigge as Europe, and yet not so much peopled: Nature hauing made heere her solitariesolitary place of retiring, attended by scorching heates, and showers of sands, as a counterfeit …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 464 · Open in the reader
Printed
… men renowmed for deuotion. We reade in deede of a kinde of monaſticall and ſolitariesolitary life in the writings of the auncients; but that onely tending to preparation, for …
With rule
… men renowmed for deuotion. We reade in deede of a kinde of monaſticall and ſolitariesolitary life in the writings of the auncients; but that onely tending to preparation, for …
William Sclater · A Key to the Key of Scripture · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… manie liue in chastitie in those daies. And of this voluntarie chastitie and liuing solitariesolitary, thus wee reade of Augustine himselfe: being nowe baptized of Ambrose, and being turned …
With rule
… manie liue in chastitie in those daies. And of this voluntarie chastitie and liuing solitariesolitary, thus wee reade of Augustine himselfe: being nowe baptized of Ambrose, and being turned …
Francis Trigge · Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith · p. 225 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

1 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.

Commentary on Galatians 1-5 A09383

Printed
SolitarieSolitary and Monastick life against the light of nature. 643. 13
With rule
SolitarieSolitary and Monastick life against the light of nature. 643. 13
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · Open in the reader