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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5436 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

notifienotify

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

Puritas changed it
329 times in 188 works
Consistency
99.1% (329 of 332)
Reach if approved
~349 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: notify
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
332 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (329 changes in 188 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 329)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … our age: which his messengers in despite of their tyranny God preserued to proclaime & notifienotify, before their owne faces, such sinnes, as the worlde knewe not to bee sinne …
    With rule
    … our age: which his messengers in despite of their tyranny God preserued to proclaime & notifienotify, before their owne faces, such sinnes, as the worlde knewe not to bee sinne …

    John Knox · A Fort for the Afflicted · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … named: which faith ſpringeth, floriſheth, and is preſerued by this, if the preaching doe notifienotify the cauſe wherefore Chriſt came, what he brought with him, what he gaue, and …
    With rule
    … named: which faith ſpringeth, floriſheth, and is preſerued by this, if the preaching doe notifienotify the cauſe wherefore Chriſt came, what he brought with him, what he gaue, and …

    Martin Luther · The Liberty of a Christian · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … detected, ye lord gaue vnto thē the ſpirit of courage and boldnes, firſt to notifienotify theſe corruptions to the Prelates of your church, and to craue at their hāds …
    With rule
    … detected, ye lord gaue vnto thē the ſpirit of courage and boldnes, firſt to notifienotify theſe corruptions to the Prelates of your church, and to craue at their hāds …

    Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · p. 119 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … as I coniecture) rather to presse this one point, then (as other write) to notifienotify the three diuine persons.
    With rule
    … as I coniecture) rather to presse this one point, then (as other write) to notifienotify the three diuine persons.

    John Boys · Exposition of the Principal Scriptures Used in our English Liturgy · p. 50 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    notifienotify, to make knowne, or to giue warning of.
    With rule
    notifienotify, to make knowne, or to giue warning of.

    Robert Cawdrey · Hard English Words Borrowed from Hebrew Greek Latin or French etc · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … one another? And if the Sixth was the last, there came none after to notifienotify the reception of it.
    With rule
    … one another? And if the Sixth was the last, there came none after to notifienotify the reception of it.

    Richard Baxter · Against the Revolt to a Foreign Jurisdiction · p. 151 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … we may conceive of the greateſt flame. Even Grace and Gracious actions do ſomewhat notifienotify to us the ſtate of Glory: But the ſight on the Mount did more …
    With rule
    … we may conceive of the greateſt flame. Even Grace and Gracious actions do ſomewhat notifienotify to us the ſtate of Glory: But the ſight on the Mount did more …

    Richard Baxter · Dying Thoughts Upon Philippians 1:23 · p. 352 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … they vse their own Wryters severally, let these few Instances lyk-wyse to vs notifienotify. Whē Beatus Rhenanus deponeth faythfullie, That pope Zepherin was a Montanist, Bellarmine aunswereth thus …
    With rule
    … they vse their own Wryters severally, let these few Instances lyk-wyse to vs notifienotify. Whē Beatus Rhenanus deponeth faythfullie, That pope Zepherin was a Montanist, Bellarmine aunswereth thus …

    William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 246 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 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.

A Vindication of the Preacher Sent A90624

  • Printed
    … Name is the definition of the thing. The names of Paſtor, Teacher, Elder, &c. NotifieNotify the relation, and ſo are forcibly Argumentative for a Churches being the Correlate.
    With rule
    … Name is the definition of the thing. The names of Paſtor, Teacher, Elder, &c. NotifieNotify the relation, and ſo are forcibly Argumentative for a Churches being the Correlate.

    Frederick Woodall · A Vindication of the Preacher Sent · p. 10 · Open in the reader