Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5179 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

specifiespecify

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

Puritas changed it: 307 times in 214 works
Consistency: 98.7% (307 of 311)
Reach if approved: ~327 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: specify
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 311 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (307 changes in 214 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 307)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… a good cause in the World, and which, it is not meete now to specifiespecify.
With rule
… a good cause in the World, and which, it is not meete now to specifiespecify.
Alexander Henderson · Answers to the Replies of Aberdeen · Open in the reader
Printed
And here by this mention of feathers it is not … to specifiespecify, that in the sea, which is the Ocean lying betwixt Europe & America, there be …
With rule
And here by this mention of feathers it is not … to specifiespecify, that in the sea, which is the Ocean lying betwixt Europe & America, there be …
Archbishop George Abbot · A Brief Description of the Whole World · p. 324 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Law is a doctrine that biddeth good, and forbiddeth euyll: as the Commaundementes do specifiespecify, here folowing.
With rule
… Law is a doctrine that biddeth good, and forbiddeth euyll: as the Commaundementes do specifiespecify, here folowing.
Patrick Hamilton · Concerning the Doctrine of Faith and of the Law · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
¶ Ethesias, he dois specifiespecify
With rule
¶ Ethesias, he dois specifiespecify
David Lindsay · A Dialogue Betwixt Experience and a Courtier · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the Fact, that there was ever any such treason plotted, though sundrie Histories specifiespecify it; As they have long since published in print, that Henry Garnet the Iesuite …
With rule
… of the Fact, that there was ever any such treason plotted, though sundrie Histories specifiespecify it; As they have long since published in print, that Henry Garnet the Iesuite …
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… goeth in three: First, for originall: That it is a divine power; though it specifiespecify it selfe in our disposition which is humane, yet it selfe is meerly divine …
With rule
… goeth in three: First, for originall: That it is a divine power; though it specifiespecify it selfe in our disposition which is humane, yet it selfe is meerly divine …
William Struther · True Happiness · p. 133 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of acknowledging al Kingdomes to depend vpon God as the text it selfe doth specifiespecify. To breake off this sin by almes, and compassion of the poore, is nothing …
With rule
… of acknowledging al Kingdomes to depend vpon God as the text it selfe doth specifiespecify. To breake off this sin by almes, and compassion of the poore, is nothing …
Anthony Wotton · Defense of Perkins Book Called a Reformed Catholic · p. 378 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to diſcouer our lewdneſſe, that w… …ay be aſhamed of it … and moreouer to ſpecifiespecify & point with his finger; the vices that are apparant and notorious before mē. And …
With rule
… to diſcouer our lewdneſſe, that w… …ay be aſhamed of it … and moreouer to ſpecifiespecify & point with his finger; the vices that are apparant and notorious before mē. And …
John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

2 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 Middle Way of Predetermination A52204

Printed
… his Sinful Acts, he hath a Self-determining power, (if God permit) he can SpecifieSpecify his own acts, he can of two Objects before him, chuſe one, and refuſe …
With rule
… his Sinful Acts, he hath a Self-determining power, (if God permit) he can SpecifieSpecify his own acts, he can of two Objects before him, chuſe one, and refuſe …
John Humfrey · The Middle Way of Predetermination · p. 19 · Open in the reader

The Fastening of Saint Peters Fetters A80836

Printed
To this I ſhould ſay no more then this; SpecifieSpecify the defect of this Covenant, as to theſe particulars; for I cannot read or …
With rule
To this I ſhould ſay no more then this; SpecifieSpecify the defect of this Covenant, as to theſe particulars; for I cannot read or …
Zachary Crofton · The Fastening of Saint Peters Fetters · p. 107 · Open in the reader