Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5320 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dignifiedignify

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

Puritas changed it: 219 times in 165 works
Consistency: 97.7% (219 of 224)
Reach if approved: ~235 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: dignify
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 224 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (219 changes in 165 works, 97.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 219)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the Gospell. First therefore note that they were giuen them by christian princes to dignifiedignify, to innoble, to decore, and to set foorth the dignitie, the excellencie, and worthines …
With rule
… the Gospell. First therefore note that they were giuen them by christian princes to dignifiedignify, to innoble, to decore, and to set foorth the dignitie, the excellencie, and worthines …
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or to increaſe pride? whether the utmoſt of their ayme be not to enrich, dignifiedignify, and pleaſe themſelves; not once caſting the eye of their ſoules at Gods glory …
With rule
… or to increaſe pride? whether the utmoſt of their ayme be not to enrich, dignifiedignify, and pleaſe themſelves; not once caſting the eye of their ſoules at Gods glory …
Richard Younge · Sin Stigmatized · p. 671 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and promiſeth that the Lord will not onely reſtore his Church, but will alſo dignifiedignify her with a more excellent eſtate. Thoſe who thinke that there is a compariſon …
With rule
… and promiſeth that the Lord will not onely reſtore his Church, but will alſo dignifiedignify her with a more excellent eſtate. Thoſe who thinke that there is a compariſon …
John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · p. 560 · Open in the reader
Printed
… lay claim to the Royal blood of Heaven; but the Lord is pleaſed to dignifiedignify a poor worm, that every believer may truly ſay, I am one with Jeſus …
With rule
… lay claim to the Royal blood of Heaven; but the Lord is pleaſed to dignifiedignify a poor worm, that every believer may truly ſay, I am one with Jeſus …
Isaac Ambrose · Looking Unto Jesus · p. 163 · Open in the reader
Printed
With Perſian Robes himſelf doth dignifiedignify,
With rule
With Perſian Robes himſelf doth dignifiedignify,
Anne Bradstreet · Several Poems · p. 144 · Open in the reader
Printed
Shall God himſelf thus dignifiedignify and grace it;
With rule
Shall God himſelf thus dignifiedignify and grace it;
Edward Calver · Divine Passions Piously and Pathetically Expressed · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as only sinne doth avile, and unworthy our persons, so nothing but Righteousnesse doth dignifiedignify them, and reestate them in their former worthinesse and excellency.
With rule
… as only sinne doth avile, and unworthy our persons, so nothing but Righteousnesse doth dignifiedignify them, and reestate them in their former worthinesse and excellency.
John Jackson · The Key of Knowledge · Open in the reader
Printed
… us to be solemnely celebrated without continued memories of those workes which doe so dignifiedignify them. All places naturally being but severall parcels of the same common aire and …
With rule
… us to be solemnely celebrated without continued memories of those workes which doe so dignifiedignify them. All places naturally being but severall parcels of the same common aire and …
Edward Reynolds · Meditations on the Lords Supper · p. 116 · 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.

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

Printed
… Manhood upon the Altar of his Godhead, which did not only Sanctifie, but alſo DignifieDignify the oblation, putting an infinite worth into it. Chriſt is the High-Prieſt of …
With rule
… Manhood upon the Altar of his Godhead, which did not only Sanctifie, but alſo DignifieDignify the oblation, putting an infinite worth into it. Chriſt is the High-Prieſt of …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 209 · Open in the reader