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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5437 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

nullitienullity

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

Puritas changed it
195 times in 91 works
Consistency
89.4% (195 of 218)
Reach if approved
~229 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: nullity
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
218 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (195 changes in 91 works, 89.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 195)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … you teach, that a ſolemne vow (by reaſon of the Churches conſtitution) makes a nullitienullity of mariage following after it. Now I deſire to know, with what honeſtie the …
    With rule
    … you teach, that a ſolemne vow (by reaſon of the Churches conſtitution) makes a nullitienullity of mariage following after it. Now I deſire to know, with what honeſtie the …

    Alexander Cooke · More Work for a Mass-Priest · p. 56 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … with Heathens, which though it was their ſin, yet there is no ſentence of nullitienullity paſſed, nor were the wives or Iſſue rejected: And the Corinthians caſe was yet …
    With rule
    … with Heathens, which though it was their ſin, yet there is no ſentence of nullitienullity paſſed, nor were the wives or Iſſue rejected: And the Corinthians caſe was yet …

    Thomas Blake · The Birth Privilege · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … religions, foreseeing these practices, and refusing to assist at this pretended Parliament, concluded a nullitienullity of all that should be decreed to prejudice the former Edict of Pacification; protesting …
    With rule
    … religions, foreseeing these practices, and refusing to assist at this pretended Parliament, concluded a nullitienullity of all that should be decreed to prejudice the former Edict of Pacification; protesting …

    William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 37 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … of Feare are esteemed the most violent. And in humane lawes there is a nullitienullity therfore held of actions extorted and wrung from men by feare: because in such …
    With rule
    … of Feare are esteemed the most violent. And in humane lawes there is a nullitienullity therfore held of actions extorted and wrung from men by feare: because in such …

    Thomas Gataker · Two Sermons for the Direction for Christian Carriage · p. 123 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Secondly, this receipt in a Pariſh miniſter with us maketh not a nullitienullity of the Miniſterie in him in every reſpect beſides; that is, it maketh not …
    With rule
    Secondly, this receipt in a Pariſh miniſter with us maketh not a nullitienullity of the Miniſterie in him in every reſpect beſides; that is, it maketh not …

    Henry Jacob · Confession of the Faith of Certain Christians in England · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … most parte of them, of the papistical promotion; protestation being made also publicklie for nullitienullity of their proceedings.
    With rule
    … most parte of them, of the papistical promotion; protestation being made also publicklie for nullitienullity of their proceedings.

    Robert Pont · Against Sacrilege · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … to him, if to any, they belong of right, in caſe there bee a nullitienullity of erroneous conſecrations.
    With rule
    … to him, if to any, they belong of right, in caſe there bee a nullitienullity of erroneous conſecrations.

    William Sclater · The Question of Tithes · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    2. Neither doth the infidelitie of the one partie make a nullitienullity of marriage: for S. Paul sayth, that the woman in that case is not …
    With rule
    2. Neither doth the infidelitie of the one partie make a nullitienullity of marriage: for S. Paul sayth, that the woman in that case is not …

    Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 536 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (23)

11 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 are listed here. 12 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Some Laid Open in his Colors A02200

  • Printed
    … take it, do make a full minister to vs ward, though there be a NullitieNullity in regard of some inward manne that we know not of. Now whereas some …
    With rule
    … take it, do make a full minister to vs ward, though there be a NullitieNullity in regard of some inward manne that we know not of. Now whereas some …

    Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … a scabbe, why is it not well that he taketh our parts in the NullitieNullity of womens ministerie: but still men will be regrating more at his hands? Therefore …
    With rule
    … a scabbe, why is it not well that he taketh our parts in the NullitieNullity of womens ministerie: but still men will be regrating more at his hands? Therefore …

    Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … doth it seeme to me, that M. Some and his assistance doe consute the NullitieNullity of our dumbe ministers: For they haue not in the world any other arguments …
    With rule
    … doth it seeme to me, that M. Some and his assistance doe consute the NullitieNullity of our dumbe ministers: For they haue not in the world any other arguments …

    Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 54 · Open in the reader

The Brutish Thunderbolt A03718

  • Printed
    THerefore the firſt cauſe of NullitieNullity is the incompetencie of a raſh iudge, which appéereth therby, bicauſe the papacie of …
    With rule
    THerefore the firſt cauſe of NullitieNullity is the incompetencie of a raſh iudge, which appéereth therby, bicauſe the papacie of …

    François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 3 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    The ſecond NullitieNullity by reaſon of the falſenes of the Allegation.
    With rule
    The ſecond NullitieNullity by reaſon of the falſenes of the Allegation.

    François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 225 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    The third NullitieNullity by reaſon of the want of iudiciall order.
    With rule
    The third NullitieNullity by reaſon of the want of iudiciall order.

    François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 243 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … is conuict of moſt manifeſt errors: as is ſhewed in the laſt cauſe of NullitieNullity, eſpecially where the ſentence doth manifeſtly contain the error of the fact: as Auguſtine …
    With rule
    … is conuict of moſt manifeſt errors: as is ſhewed in the laſt cauſe of NullitieNullity, eſpecially where the ſentence doth manifeſtly contain the error of the fact: as Auguſtine …

    François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 243 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    The fourth NullitieNullity by reaſon of the forme of the ſentence.
    With rule
    The fourth NullitieNullity by reaſon of the forme of the ſentence.

    François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 251 · Open in the reader

An Answer to Two Treatises of John Can A30189

  • Printed
    … and muſt pleade (for it is a truth) that there is not an abſolute NullitieNullity of their Miniſterie: and this I preſume upon better advice, you will not denie …
    With rule
    … and muſt pleade (for it is a truth) that there is not an abſolute NullitieNullity of their Miniſterie: and this I preſume upon better advice, you will not denie …

    John Ball · An Answer to Two Treatises of John Can · p. 18 · Open in the reader