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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5216 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

precedencieprecedency

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

Puritas changed it
152 times in 107 works
Consistency
91.5% (152 of 166)
Reach if approved
~174 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: precedency
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
166 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (152 changes in 107 works, 91.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 152)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … who shall be on this side and who on that, who shall haue the precedencieprecedency at Tables or Chesse, who shall haue these and who those cards to make …
    With rule
    … who shall be on this side and who on that, who shall haue the precedencieprecedency at Tables or Chesse, who shall haue these and who those cards to make …

    Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · p. 82 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … in which this benefit did befall them, which is to be gathered from the precedencieprecedency of two other. 1. Of hearing. 2. Of beleeuing. The hearing is amplified from the obiect …
    With rule
    … in which this benefit did befall them, which is to be gathered from the precedencieprecedency of two other. 1. Of hearing. 2. Of beleeuing. The hearing is amplified from the obiect …

    Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Ephesians 1 · p. 279 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … let this practiſe of Gedeon teach vs this rule, to wit, to giue the precedencieprecedency alway to thoſe duties which are of beſt price, and withall of greateſt neceſſitie …
    With rule
    … let this practiſe of Gedeon teach vs this rule, to wit, to giue the precedencieprecedency alway to thoſe duties which are of beſt price, and withall of greateſt neceſſitie …

    Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 338 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … are examples, custome, opinion, worldly wisdome, common preiudice against a strict course of sanctification; precedencieprecedency and practise of greater men, for true goodnesse, many times ouerprized, and misualued by …
    With rule
    … are examples, custome, opinion, worldly wisdome, common preiudice against a strict course of sanctification; precedencieprecedency and practise of greater men, for true goodnesse, many times ouerprized, and misualued by …

    Robert Bolton · The State of True Happiness · p. 116 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Table: wee honouring him by seeking his kingdome first: First (I say) in the precedencieprecedency of time, and first, in respect of the measure of our affections, Math. 6. shewing …
    With rule
    … Table: wee honouring him by seeking his kingdome first: First (I say) in the precedencieprecedency of time, and first, in respect of the measure of our affections, Math. 6. shewing …

    Nicholas Byfield · The Marrow of the Oracles of God · p. 503 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the ſheep-folds? The diuiſions of REVBEN were great thoughts of heart. Ambition of precedencieprecedency in places of employment, greatnes of heart, and a lothneſſe to be vnder the …
    With rule
    … the ſheep-folds? The diuiſions of REVBEN were great thoughts of heart. Ambition of precedencieprecedency in places of employment, greatnes of heart, and a lothneſſe to be vnder the …

    John Donne · Five Sermons 2 · p. 26 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … repelling the perillous ſtratagems of the Diuels aſſaults: therefore may I cloze vp the precedencieprecedency with that worthy ſaying of a more worthy Epigrammatiſt, No man needes feare, that …
    With rule
    … repelling the perillous ſtratagems of the Diuels aſſaults: therefore may I cloze vp the precedencieprecedency with that worthy ſaying of a more worthy Epigrammatiſt, No man needes feare, that …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · Meditations Upon the Misery of Mankind · p. 147 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … begun▪ for have been called home r. may be called home. for prudencie r. precedencieprecedency. a line left out r. I doe not know that he hath left his …
    With rule
    … begun▪ for have been called home r. may be called home. for prudencie r. precedencieprecedency. a line left out r. I doe not know that he hath left his …

    John Cook · Monarchy No Creature of Gods Making · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 10 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Marrow of the Oracles of God A17397

  • Printed
    6. PrecedenciePrecedency before other businesses.
    With rule
    6. PrecedenciePrecedency before other businesses.

    Nicholas Byfield · The Marrow of the Oracles of God · p. 423 · Open in the reader

A Reply to a Relation A69024

  • Printed
    … makes it whether for a penny, Beliefe of Scripture, or the Creed, hath the PrecedenciePrecedency of a Prime Principle of Faith, 125.
    With rule
    … makes it whether for a penny, Beliefe of Scripture, or the Creed, hath the PrecedenciePrecedency of a Prime Principle of Faith, 125.

    Henry Burton · A Reply to a Relation · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … upon the next horse that follows? Then you should rather give Gods Grace the PrecedenciePrecedency. But now I remember, this Grace of God is but an ordinary Grace, as …
    With rule
    … upon the next horse that follows? Then you should rather give Gods Grace the PrecedenciePrecedency. But now I remember, this Grace of God is but an ordinary Grace, as …

    Henry Burton · A Reply to a Relation · p. 157 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … The Tradition of the Church that's ever presupposed, as a Prime principle, having the PrecedenciePrecedency before that other Principle, that Scripture is that word of God; as before. Well …
    With rule
    … The Tradition of the Church that's ever presupposed, as a Prime principle, having the PrecedenciePrecedency before that other Principle, that Scripture is that word of God; as before. Well …

    Henry Burton · A Reply to a Relation · p. 212 · Open in the reader