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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5512 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stabilitiestability

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

Puritas changed it
325 times in 184 works
Consistency
95.5% (325 of 340)
Reach if approved
~357 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: stability
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
340 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (325 changes in 184 works, 95.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 325)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … from the glorie of God, in that they doe not acknowledge the extent, and ſtabilitiestability, of his covenant; and the ſeale thereof, according to his vvord, and vvork. And …
    With rule
    … from the glorie of God, in that they doe not acknowledge the extent, and ſtabilitiestability, of his covenant; and the ſeale thereof, according to his vvord, and vvork. And …

    Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 244 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … deadly wound was healed. Osi. As the heythen had once in admiracion the inuicte stabilitiestability of the Romane monarchye, as I sayd tofore, euen so had they it again …
    With rule
    … deadly wound was healed. Osi. As the heythen had once in admiracion the inuicte stabilitiestability of the Romane monarchye, as I sayd tofore, euen so had they it again …

    Andreas Osiander · The Conjectures of the End of the World · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … was so, they were engrauen the children of God, by a stedfast and immutable stabilitiestability, in the register of their father. And againe there are some which in respect …
    With rule
    … was so, they were engrauen the children of God, by a stedfast and immutable stabilitiestability, in the register of their father. And againe there are some which in respect …

    William Perkins · Predestination · p. 82 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … certaine resemblance, not onely in the vniformitie thereof, but also of that want of stabilitiestability, whereby it could not abide together, but as the Spirit of God moued vpon …
    With rule
    … certaine resemblance, not onely in the vniformitie thereof, but also of that want of stabilitiestability, whereby it could not abide together, but as the Spirit of God moued vpon …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … is only able to make it faſt. A Papiſts heart hath no ſtedfaſtnes nor ſtabilitiestability, becauſe it is grounded on the wrong place; it is founded vpon Antichriſt.
    With rule
    … is only able to make it faſt. A Papiſts heart hath no ſtedfaſtnes nor ſtabilitiestability, becauſe it is grounded on the wrong place; it is founded vpon Antichriſt.

    Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon Colossians · p. 148 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … improve thy former experience as what former love, and favour, & power and fidelitie and stabilitiestability thou hast had, and make thy benefit of them all to thy best helpe …
    With rule
    … improve thy former experience as what former love, and favour, & power and fidelitie and stabilitiestability thou hast had, and make thy benefit of them all to thy best helpe …

    Richard Sibbes · Two Sermons · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    1. Their ſtabilitiestability. (verſ. 16.)
    With rule
    1. Their ſtabilitiestability. (verſ. 16.)

    Henry Finch · The Calling of the Jews · p. 26 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Boaz, or stabilitiestability and strength, with Lillies & Pomegranates carried vpon them. Noting thereby the stabilitiestability and strength of Christs Church through him, who is as a double Pillar vnto …
    With rule
    … Boaz, or stabilitiestability and strength, with Lillies & Pomegranates carried vpon them. Noting thereby the stabilitiestability and strength of Christs Church through him, who is as a double Pillar vnto …

    William Guild · Moses Unveiled · p. 171 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (15)

9 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Calling of the Jews A00746

  • Printed
    1. StabilitieStability, being faſt rooted and fixed that nothing can ſhake their faith. And hereof the …
    With rule
    1. StabilitieStability, being faſt rooted and fixed that nothing can ſhake their faith. And hereof the …

    Henry Finch · The Calling of the Jews · p. 143 · Open in the reader

Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted A01042

  • Printed
    … Standing, of the Church, did hang on anie one particular Man his Apostasie, or StabilitieStability. Hee, no lesse audaciouslie, fathereth a Lie, on the Apostle Paul, (That, al-wayes …
    With rule
    … Standing, of the Church, did hang on anie one particular Man his Apostasie, or StabilitieStability. Hee, no lesse audaciouslie, fathereth a Lie, on the Apostle Paul, (That, al-wayes …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 61 · Open in the reader

Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Seven Consolatory Psalms of David A02119

  • Printed
    … ſuch joy, ſuch ſtabilitiestability; Health, not ſubject to ſickneſſe; Joy, not capable of ſorrow; StabilitieStability, not obnoxious to falling: How canſt thou, O my ſoule; how canſt thou chooſe …
    With rule
    … ſuch joy, ſuch ſtabilitiestability; Health, not ſubject to ſickneſſe; Joy, not capable of ſorrow; StabilitieStability, not obnoxious to falling: How canſt thou, O my ſoule; how canſt thou chooſe …

    Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Seven Consolatory Psalms of David · p. 191 · Open in the reader

The Plain Mans Spiritual Plow A18014

  • Printed
    Another allotteth vnto Iuſtice, Equalitie, Medietie and StabilitieStability, defining it to be a conſtant and perpetuall will, which giueth to euery one …
    With rule
    Another allotteth vnto Iuſtice, Equalitie, Medietie and StabilitieStability, defining it to be a conſtant and perpetuall will, which giueth to euery one …

    John Carpenter · The Plain Mans Spiritual Plow · p. 22 · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 A41688

  • Printed
    (6) From its StabilitieStability. 104.
    With rule
    (6) From its StabilitieStability. 104.

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … becauſe it brings (1) Order, (2) Spontaneitie and ſuavitie, (3) A Divine Life, (4) Amplitude, (5) Freedom from Sin, (6) StabilitieStability of Spirit, (7) Improvement of Virtue, (8) Formal Beatitude.
    With rule
    … becauſe it brings (1) Order, (2) Spontaneitie and ſuavitie, (3) A Divine Life, (4) Amplitude, (5) Freedom from Sin, (6) StabilitieStability of Spirit, (7) Improvement of Virtue, (8) Formal Beatitude.

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 73 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … ſubtile conjectures they conceived him to be preſent with althings, giving Life, Motion, Termes, StabilitieStability and Uſe to every thing. This Life, this Motion, this Eſſence of things the …
    With rule
    … ſubtile conjectures they conceived him to be preſent with althings, giving Life, Motion, Termes, StabilitieStability and Uſe to every thing. This Life, this Motion, this Eſſence of things the …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 447 · Open in the reader

The Saints Amity with God in Christ A41751

  • Printed
    … or Libertie; but Intimate communion with Chriſt, as their friend? Whence ſprings the Firmitude, StabilitieStability, and Harmonie of Grace; but from continual, uninterrupted Dependence on, and converſation with Chriſt …
    With rule
    … or Libertie; but Intimate communion with Chriſt, as their friend? Whence ſprings the Firmitude, StabilitieStability, and Harmonie of Grace; but from continual, uninterrupted Dependence on, and converſation with Chriſt …

    Theophilus Gale · The Saints Amity with God in Christ · p. 388 · Open in the reader

Plea for Pauls Presbytery in Scotland A57976

  • Printed
    … and primacie of Christian dignitie is above the Church ministeriall as ministeriall, 1. In dignitie. 2. StabilitieStability. 3. Causalitie. Indignitie. 1. Because the Church of believers is the redeemed and conquested purchase of …
    With rule
    … and primacie of Christian dignitie is above the Church ministeriall as ministeriall, 1. In dignitie. 2. StabilitieStability. 3. Causalitie. Indignitie. 1. Because the Church of believers is the redeemed and conquested purchase of …

    Samuel Rutherford · Plea for Pauls Presbytery in Scotland · p. 33 · Open in the reader