Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5289 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

centuriecentury

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

Puritas changed it: 275 times in 66 works
Consistency: 91.0% (275 of 302)
Reach if approved: ~317 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: century
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 302 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (275 changes in 66 works, 91.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 275)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Church is not unknowne; and in the Latine foreign went ever for praecipua till the CenturieCentury that is laſt paſt. As then of all is to be received a tenth …
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… Church is not unknowne; and in the Latine foreign went ever for praecipua till the CenturieCentury that is laſt paſt. As then of all is to be received a tenth …
John Carter · Of Tithes · p. 7 · Open in the reader
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… have next Malignants: and riddle me, riddle me, what is this? In the firſt CenturieCentury of ſcandalous and lewd Miniſters, I finde commonly malignitie applyed to ſuch, as had …
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… have next Malignants: and riddle me, riddle me, what is this? In the firſt CenturieCentury of ſcandalous and lewd Miniſters, I finde commonly malignitie applyed to ſuch, as had …
John Canne · The Snare is Broken · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Objectors to the contrary) * Tertullian will be a good competent toſtimonie for the next CenturieCentury, ſpeaking of the felicity of the Chriſtian Marriage, quod Eccleſia conciliat, & confirmat oblatio, & obſignat …
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… Objectors to the contrary) * Tertullian will be a good competent toſtimonie for the next CenturieCentury, ſpeaking of the felicity of the Chriſtian Marriage, quod Eccleſia conciliat, & confirmat oblatio, & obſignat …
Henry Hammond · Vindication of the Dissertations Concerning Episcopacy · p. 155 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which they ſearched the land, counting a day for a yeere: and ſo the CenturieCentury writers of Magdeburg take it: and our Junius on this place; who begins the …
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… which they ſearched the land, counting a day for a yeere: and ſo the CenturieCentury writers of Magdeburg take it: and our Junius on this place; who begins the …
David Pareus · Commentary on Revelation · p. 217 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the ſame purpoſe Origen before them (who lived in the beginning of the third CenturieCentury, not much above two hundred yeares after Chriſt) mentioneth this as a received cuſtome …
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… the ſame purpoſe Origen before them (who lived in the beginning of the third CenturieCentury, not much above two hundred yeares after Chriſt) mentioneth this as a received cuſtome …
John Brinsley · The Doctrine and Practice of Paedobaptism · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… told us. It was ſo in latter times towards the cloſe of the former CenturieCentury, and beginning of this, when Luther appeared in Germanie, ſpoiling the Pope and his …
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… told us. It was ſo in latter times towards the cloſe of the former CenturieCentury, and beginning of this, when Luther appeared in Germanie, ſpoiling the Pope and his …
Hezekiah Woodward · The Cause Use Cure of Fear · p. 64 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Annals, N…celus in his Annals, Eutropius in his Romane History, and the other CenturieCentury writers witnessing as much.
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… Annals, N…celus in his Annals, Eutropius in his Romane History, and the other CenturieCentury writers witnessing as much.
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 256 · Open in the reader
Printed
The CenturieCentury Collectours declare indeed how that myſtery of iniquity wrought and encreaſed then in the …
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The CenturieCentury Collectours declare indeed how that myſtery of iniquity wrought and encreaſed then in the …
William Whitaker · Answer to Reynolds Book · p. 164 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (27)

20 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 14 are listed here. 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies A01760

Printed
… as publici ministerij, non privatae exhortationis est appendix. It is marked in the fourth centuriecentury both out of Councels & Fathers, that it was not then permitted, to communicate in …
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… as publici ministerij, non privatae exhortationis est appendix. It is marked in the fourth centuriecentury both out of Councels & Fathers, that it was not then permitted, to communicate in …
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 2 · Open in the reader

Appeal to the Parliament A05285

Printed
… profanesse, yet in both these they came short of ours, to shutte up this centuriecentury: may your Honours be pleased to observe what a pickle this clergie had put …
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… profanesse, yet in both these they came short of ours, to shutte up this centuriecentury: may your Honours be pleased to observe what a pickle this clergie had put …
Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 54 · Open in the reader

Churches for Christian Worship A07381

Printed
IN THE FIRST CENTURIECENTURY.
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IN THE FIRST CENTURIECENTURY.
Joseph Mede · Churches for Christian Worship · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
IN THE SECOND CENTURIECENTURY.
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IN THE SECOND CENTURIECENTURY.
Joseph Mede · Churches for Christian Worship · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
IN THE THIRD CENTURIECENTURY.
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IN THE THIRD CENTURIECENTURY.
Joseph Mede · Churches for Christian Worship · p. 38 · Open in the reader

A Looking Glass for Princes and Peoples Delivered A13078

Printed
… for an hundreth yeares: The which Law they renew everie yeare to keep that centuriecentury of their proscription whole. I thinke heerein they repayed the Pope the old indignitie …
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… for an hundreth yeares: The which Law they renew everie yeare to keep that centuriecentury of their proscription whole. I thinke heerein they repayed the Pope the old indignitie …
William Struther · A Looking Glass for Princes and Peoples Delivered · p. 143 · Open in the reader

History of the First Ten Persecutions A13296

Printed
IN the third CENTURIECENTURY wee rested at the name of … Bishop of Alexandria, whose successour was Alexander. His …
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IN the third CENTURIECENTURY wee rested at the name of … Bishop of Alexandria, whose successour was Alexander. His …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as the Heresies of the Novatians, Sabellians, and Manicheans, did more harme in this CENTURIECENTURY, then in the time whereinto they were first propagated, as appeareth by the bookes …
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… as the Heresies of the Novatians, Sabellians, and Manicheans, did more harme in this CENTURIECENTURY, then in the time whereinto they were first propagated, as appeareth by the bookes …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
TREATISES, BELONGING TO THE fourth CENTURIECENTURY.
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TREATISES, BELONGING TO THE fourth CENTURIECENTURY.
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
In the third CENTURIECENTURY also wee reade of a commemoration of the names of holy Martyres, in time …
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In the third CENTURIECENTURY also wee reade of a commemoration of the names of holy Martyres, in time …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with knowledge, & were meete to stop the mouthes of Heretiques, who in the fourth CENTURIECENTURY did abound. In these places were continuall exercises of Prayer, Reading, Meditation, and abstinence …
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… with knowledge, & were meete to stop the mouthes of Heretiques, who in the fourth CENTURIECENTURY did abound. In these places were continuall exercises of Prayer, Reading, Meditation, and abstinence …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 131 · Open in the reader

A Revelation of the Apocalypse A16853

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… out of this Apocalyps. All vvhich effects notvvithſtanding, vvill yeilde unto us this nevv centuriecentury of tymes vvhich novv vve enter into, as our expoſition, yf I be not …
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… out of this Apocalyps. All vvhich effects notvvithſtanding, vvill yeilde unto us this nevv centuriecentury of tymes vvhich novv vve enter into, as our expoſition, yf I be not …
Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · Open in the reader

A Reexamination of the Five Articles Enacted at Perth in 1618 A17587

Printed
… adoration by reall presence, and reall presence by adoration. Algerius writing in the eleventh centuriecentury, that is betweene a 1000. an… 1100. yeare, condemneth it as a vaine and senslesse fancie …
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… adoration by reall presence, and reall presence by adoration. Algerius writing in the eleventh centuriecentury, that is betweene a 1000. an… 1100. yeare, condemneth it as a vaine and senslesse fancie …
David Calderwood · A Reexamination of the Five Articles Enacted at Perth in 1618 · p. 120 · Open in the reader

Diatribe Triplex A31437

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… againſt a rational Diſputant. The preſent Church (of Rome, ſuppoſe, or any Church, ſome centuriecentury, or more of years after the Apoſtles) hath ſuch or ſuch a cuſtom; ergo …
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… againſt a rational Diſputant. The preſent Church (of Rome, ſuppoſe, or any Church, ſome centuriecentury, or more of years after the Apoſtles) hath ſuch or ſuch a cuſtom; ergo …
Daniel Cawdry · Diatribe Triplex · p. 124 · Open in the reader