Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5176 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sophistriesophistry

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

Puritas changed it: 399 times in 176 works
Consistency: 99.2% (399 of 402)
Reach if approved: ~422 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sophistry
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 402 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (399 changes in 176 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 399)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… they made for you against us, Both vvith skill and cunning, but more of SophistrieSophistry, then divinity, 1. Cor. 10. 21.
With rule
… they made for you against us, Both vvith skill and cunning, but more of SophistrieSophistry, then divinity, 1. Cor. 10. 21.
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 143 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of perdition: yee are hearers of the Word; coozen not your ſoules with that SophiſtrieSophistry. There were that heard Chriſt teach in their ſtreets, and yet were ſhut out …
With rule
… of perdition: yee are hearers of the Word; coozen not your ſoules with that SophiſtrieSophistry. There were that heard Chriſt teach in their ſtreets, and yet were ſhut out …
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
❧ Although the rules of SophiſtrieSophistry bee needeleſſe for them that be perfect in Logike: yet becauſe the knowledge of …
With rule
❧ Although the rules of SophiſtrieSophistry bee needeleſſe for them that be perfect in Logike: yet becauſe the knowledge of …
Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader
Printed
… Bristow so vainely doth brag, were euer able to attaine vnto, who with their sophistriesophistry and barbarousnes haue rather darkened, then sette foorth the cleere light of those most …
With rule
… Bristow so vainely doth brag, were euer able to attaine vnto, who with their sophistriesophistry and barbarousnes haue rather darkened, then sette foorth the cleere light of those most …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 88 · Open in the reader
Printed
7 It is a parte of the Diuels SophistrieSophistry, as in good things to seuer the meanes from the ende; so in euill …
With rule
7 It is a parte of the Diuels SophistrieSophistry, as in good things to seuer the meanes from the ende; so in euill …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 734 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God, Tho mas Cranmer Archebysshop of Cā terbury to cut the knottes of deuelyshe SophistrieSophistry lyncked and knyt by the deuels Gardener and his blynd bussardes, to holde the …
With rule
… God, Tho mas Cranmer Archebysshop of Cā terbury to cut the knottes of deuelyshe SophistrieSophistry lyncked and knyt by the deuels Gardener and his blynd bussardes, to holde the …
John Knox · A Faithful Admonition · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… who drewe a Croſſe out of the ſight whiche Constantine ſawe, or from the ſophiſtriesophistry of Papiſtes ſince.
With rule
… who drewe a Croſſe out of the ſight whiche Constantine ſawe, or from the ſophiſtriesophistry of Papiſtes ſince.
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 130 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not reſtored for the ſame cauſe. And therfore common experience wil convince the vaine ſophiſtriesophistry of men in going about to prove thoſe offices to be diverſe, which neither …
With rule
… not reſtored for the ſame cauſe. And therfore common experience wil convince the vaine ſophiſtriesophistry of men in going about to prove thoſe offices to be diverſe, which neither …
John Penry · The History of Korah · p. 43 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric A00630

Printed
SOphiſtrieSophistry is the feyned Arte of Elenches, or coloured reaſons.
With rule
SOphiſtrieSophistry is the feyned Arte of Elenches, or coloured reaſons.
Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader