Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5405 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

livielivy

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

Puritas changed it: 230 times in 85 works
Consistency: 100% (230 of 230)
Reach if approved: ~246 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: livy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 234 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (230 changes in 85 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 230)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of combatants standing forth betwixt the camps: So he whom Manlius Torquatus killed in LivieLivy l. vii. This Homer expresses in like style, by foreign in the midst, foreign. i. e …
With rule
… of combatants standing forth betwixt the camps: So he whom Manlius Torquatus killed in LivieLivy l. vii. This Homer expresses in like style, by foreign in the midst, foreign. i. e …
Henry Hammond · Paraphrase Upon the Books of the Psalms · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… again with their liberti…. It brings to minde that issue of a Combate, whereof LivieLivy is the reporter, when the three H…i, and the three … had by the …
With rule
… again with their liberti…. It brings to minde that issue of a Combate, whereof LivieLivy is the reporter, when the three H…i, and the three … had by the …
Hugh Peters · Gods Doings and Mans Duty Opened · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whoever made peace, gained nothing but repentance; Pax erit in fida, pax incerta, as LivieLivy ſaith of that which the Romans made with the Samnites, a peace worſe than …
With rule
… whoever made peace, gained nothing but repentance; Pax erit in fida, pax incerta, as LivieLivy ſaith of that which the Romans made with the Samnites, a peace worſe than …
John Trapp · Commentary on Prov Ecc SoS Isa Jer Lam Eze Dan · p. 113 · Open in the reader
Printed
… favour before. Scipi… going againſt the Carthaginians, made a prayer for ſucceſſe, expreſſed in LivieLivy, Archidamus bringing his army before Pl…tea began with ſacrifices crave helpe of the …
With rule
… favour before. Scipi… going againſt the Carthaginians, made a prayer for ſucceſſe, expreſſed in LivieLivy, Archidamus bringing his army before Pl…tea began with ſacrifices crave helpe of the …
Richard Bernard · The Bible Battles · p. 160 · Open in the reader
Printed
… learned as the worke of Floccus which wee have? Of Tullie, of Polybius, of LivieLivy, Dio, Tacitus, of infinite writers more, are there not as good bookes lost, as …
With rule
… learned as the worke of Floccus which wee have? Of Tullie, of Polybius, of LivieLivy, Dio, Tacitus, of infinite writers more, are there not as good bookes lost, as …
John Rainolds · Defense of Divorce and Remarriage · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… one line, In principio, In the beginning God created heaven and earth. If a LivieLivy or a Guicciardine, or ſuch extenſive and voluminous authours had had this ſtory in …
With rule
… one line, In principio, In the beginning God created heaven and earth. If a LivieLivy or a Guicciardine, or ſuch extenſive and voluminous authours had had this ſtory in …
John Donne · Two Sermons Preached Before King Charles on Genesis 1:26 · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as ſome would go from the utmoſt parts of Greece to Rome, to ſee LivieLivy, Themiſtocles: to ſee Chriſt then, in whom is ſo much excellency, will be glorious …
With rule
… as ſome would go from the utmoſt parts of Greece to Rome, to ſee LivieLivy, Themiſtocles: to ſee Chriſt then, in whom is ſo much excellency, will be glorious …
Jeremiah Burroughs · Moses Choice · p. 579 · Open in the reader
Printed
It is ſtoried in LivieLivy, that the Augurs ominating diſaſtrous and unfortunate things to the Romane army, from their …
With rule
It is ſtoried in LivieLivy, that the Augurs ominating diſaſtrous and unfortunate things to the Romane army, from their …
John Gaule · The Magical-Astrological-Diviner Posed and Puzzled · p. 327 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.