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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5572 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

livelyhoodlivelihood

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

Puritas changed it
333 times in 228 works
Consistency
81.0% (333 of 411)
Reach if approved
~432 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: livelihood
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
411 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (333 changes in 228 works, 81.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 333)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … be reputed obſequiouſly thankfull to your Honour, for a great part of my little livelyhoodlivelihood. All that I am able to returne, for ſo many reall courteſies, is this …
    With rule
    … be reputed obſequiouſly thankfull to your Honour, for a great part of my little livelyhoodlivelihood. All that I am able to returne, for ſo many reall courteſies, is this …

    John Trapp · Gods Love · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … it may be he works for thee, or depends upon thy Charity for his livelyhoodlivelihood: take this advantage upon him: it may be he will hearken to thee.
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    … it may be he works for thee, or depends upon thy Charity for his livelyhoodlivelihood: take this advantage upon him: it may be he will hearken to thee.

    Joseph Alleine · Remains of Joseph Alleine · p. 58 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … to conſider, 1. That the Phyſician is but One man; And will his maintenance or livelyhoodlivelihood excuſe him for killing many? 2. That even one mans Life is more precious than …
    With rule
    … to conſider, 1. That the Phyſician is but One man; And will his maintenance or livelyhoodlivelihood excuſe him for killing many? 2. That even one mans Life is more precious than …

    Richard Baxter · A Treatise of Knowledge and Love · p. 109 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … But Littlefaith was of another t…mper, his mind was on things Divine; his livelyhoodlivelihood was upon things that were Spiritual, and from above; Therefore to what end should …
    With rule
    … But Littlefaith was of another t…mper, his mind was on things Divine; his livelyhoodlivelihood was upon things that were Spiritual, and from above; Therefore to what end should …

    John Bunyan · The Pilgrims Progress · p. 170 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ſatisfy every honeſt man without hurting any mans perſon, or deſtroying him in his livelyhoodlivelihood onely pareing the nayles of ſome ſuperfluities, but as there was no light in …
    With rule
    … ſatisfy every honeſt man without hurting any mans perſon, or deſtroying him in his livelyhoodlivelihood onely pareing the nayles of ſome ſuperfluities, but as there was no light in …

    John Cook · Monarchy No Creature of Gods Making · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of Greve, before S. Johns Church a multitude of poor Prieſts that get their livelyhoodlivelihood by thoſe private Maſſes. They ſtand there waiting a whole morning till ſome come …
    With rule
    … of Greve, before S. Johns Church a multitude of poor Prieſts that get their livelyhoodlivelihood by thoſe private Maſſes. They ſtand there waiting a whole morning till ſome come …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · The Novelty of Popery Opposed to the Antiquity of True Christianity · p. 802 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … not be tempted, (as too many daily are, by the difficulties of getting a livelyhoodlivelihood by their Labours when they are free-men,) to run away, and return again …
    With rule
    … not be tempted, (as too many daily are, by the difficulties of getting a livelyhoodlivelihood by their Labours when they are free-men,) to run away, and return again …

    Simon Ford · The Blessedness of Being Bountiful · p. 136 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … and reel, by dividing and taking it off from God, Iſai. 7. 9? (5.) Faith makes a livelyhoodlivelihood out of Divine Promiſſes, Engagements, Relations, and Influences: It ſucks ſweetneſſe out of Promiſſes …
    With rule
    … and reel, by dividing and taking it off from God, Iſai. 7. 9? (5.) Faith makes a livelyhoodlivelihood out of Divine Promiſſes, Engagements, Relations, and Influences: It ſucks ſweetneſſe out of Promiſſes …

    Theophilus Gale · The Anatomy of Infidelity · p. 249 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (78)

23 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 20 are listed here. 55 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Sober Inquiry Into the Reasonings of the Serious Inquiry A25212

  • Printed
    … find them not over tender of my Body, Estate, Liberty, Good Name, Life or LivelyhoodLivelihood, which they have seen, they have cautioned me into a jealousie that they can …
    With rule
    … find them not over tender of my Body, Estate, Liberty, Good Name, Life or LivelyhoodLivelihood, which they have seen, they have cautioned me into a jealousie that they can …

    Vincent Alsop · A Sober Inquiry Into the Reasonings of the Serious Inquiry · p. 71 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … and irresistible convictions. All the Avene us to preferment, all the Passes to a LivelyhoodLivelihood are so strictly guarded, that men of parts whose Educations have promised them the …
    With rule
    … and irresistible convictions. All the Avene us to preferment, all the Passes to a LivelyhoodLivelihood are so strictly guarded, that men of parts whose Educations have promised them the …

    Vincent Alsop · A Sober Inquiry Into the Reasonings of the Serious Inquiry · p. 199 · Open in the reader

The Utter Routing of the Whole Army of All the Independents and Sectaries A26759

  • Printed
    … with fewer ſelfe ends then they have beene, are many of them deſtitute of LivelyhoodLivelihood, and many more of them by the calumnies and lyes of the Independents and …
    With rule
    … with fewer ſelfe ends then they have beene, are many of them deſtitute of LivelyhoodLivelihood, and many more of them by the calumnies and lyes of the Independents and …

    John Bastwick · The Utter Routing of the Whole Army of All the Independents and Sectaries · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

  • Printed
    … for the Maintenance of the Faith, with the Losse of their Native Land, Liberty, LivelyhoodLivelihood, Limbs, any thing under Life it self.
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    … for the Maintenance of the Faith, with the Losse of their Native Land, Liberty, LivelyhoodLivelihood, Limbs, any thing under Life it self.

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to them (as I conceive) to take sometimes poor and painful Employments for their LivelyhoodLivelihood.
    With rule
    … to them (as I conceive) to take sometimes poor and painful Employments for their LivelyhoodLivelihood.

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 57 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … aim at the place of their birth, we fixe them according to their best LivelyhoodLivelihood.
    With rule
    … aim at the place of their birth, we fixe them according to their best LivelyhoodLivelihood.

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 61 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … but which fed them. The Greeks have but one word, …, both for Life and LivelyhoodLivelihood. The Hebrews accounted that place was to give a Man his Native Denomination, where …
    With rule
    … but which fed them. The Greeks have but one word, …, both for Life and LivelyhoodLivelihood. The Hebrews accounted that place was to give a Man his Native Denomination, where …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 60 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … much for your Honour) I intend to make this journey, somewhat to increase your LivelyhoodLivelihood, that you may not say to your self, Perditur quod sactum est ingrato.
    With rule
    … much for your Honour) I intend to make this journey, somewhat to increase your LivelyhoodLivelihood, that you may not say to your self, Perditur quod sactum est ingrato.

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 24 · Open in the reader

Apology for the Ministry and its Maintenance A45328

  • Printed
    … again, 1 Tim. 3. 3. Tit. 1. 7, 11. 1 Pet. 5. 3. Who can but condemn the preposterous ca…e of a LivelyhoodLivelihood, which some Ministers stand guilty of, who bestow more thoughts about breeding and feeding …
    With rule
    … again, 1 Tim. 3. 3. Tit. 1. 7, 11. 1 Pet. 5. 3. Who can but condemn the preposterous ca…e of a LivelyhoodLivelihood, which some Ministers stand guilty of, who bestow more thoughts about breeding and feeding …

    Thomas Hall · Apology for the Ministry and its Maintenance · p. 103 · Open in the reader

Canterburys Doom A56144

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    … no cogniſance, to ſtarve a faithfull Miniſter and his Family, who had no other LivelyhoodLivelihood. As for his prohibiting him to teach Schoole, to practiſe Phiſick, when he had …
    With rule
    … no cogniſance, to ſtarve a faithfull Miniſter and his Family, who had no other LivelyhoodLivelihood. As for his prohibiting him to teach Schoole, to practiſe Phiſick, when he had …

    William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 496 · Open in the reader

The Acts of Famous National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France A56905

  • Printed
    … of all Offices and Employments, and in general of all means of gaining a LivelyhoodLivelihood. An infinite number of Proteſtants being diſperſed in all parts of the Kingdom, it …
    With rule
    … of all Offices and Employments, and in general of all means of gaining a LivelyhoodLivelihood. An infinite number of Proteſtants being diſperſed in all parts of the Kingdom, it …

    John Quick · The Acts of Famous National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France · p. cxiii · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Miniſter. 'Tis true, thou haſt none other Calling whereby to ſubſiſt, to provide a LivelyhoodLivelihood for thy ſelf and Family; and among the Papiſts, whoſe Party thou haſt eſpouſed …
    With rule
    … Miniſter. 'Tis true, thou haſt none other Calling whereby to ſubſiſt, to provide a LivelyhoodLivelihood for thy ſelf and Family; and among the Papiſts, whoſe Party thou haſt eſpouſed …

    John Quick · The Acts of Famous National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France · p. 590 · Open in the reader

Commentary on the Epistles and Revelation of John A63065

  • Printed
    Verſe 17. This Worlds good] Gr. LivelyhoodLivelihood, Which is all that the world looks after.
    With rule
    Verſe 17. This Worlds good] Gr. LivelyhoodLivelihood, Which is all that the world looks after.

    John Trapp · Commentary on the Epistles and Revelation of John · p. 474 · Open in the reader

A Body of Practical Divinity A65285

  • Printed
    … the World, and trading is bad, and I have no other way to a LivelyhoodLivelihood.
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    … the World, and trading is bad, and I have no other way to a LivelyhoodLivelihood.

    Thomas Watson · A Body of Practical Divinity · p. 378 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … in the World, therefore he will Acheronta movere, Go to the Devil for a LivelyhoodLivelihood. Abraham would not have it said, that the King of Sodom had made him …
    With rule
    … in the World, therefore he will Acheronta movere, Go to the Devil for a LivelyhoodLivelihood. Abraham would not have it said, that the King of Sodom had made him …

    Thomas Watson · A Body of Practical Divinity · p. 378 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … wants: If we trust God for Salvation shall we not trust him for a LivelyhoodLivelihood? There is a lawful provident care to be used, but beware of a distrustful …
    With rule
    … wants: If we trust God for Salvation shall we not trust him for a LivelyhoodLivelihood? There is a lawful provident care to be used, but beware of a distrustful …

    Thomas Watson · A Body of Practical Divinity · p. 440 · Open in the reader

Meditations Upon the Lords Prayer A66758

  • Printed
    … Tongue, and but an ordinary natural Wit, may by long endeavouring to get his LivelyhoodLivelihood, or catch Opinion thereby, (plauſibly and without heſitation) act over that, which he hath …
    With rule
    … Tongue, and but an ordinary natural Wit, may by long endeavouring to get his LivelyhoodLivelihood, or catch Opinion thereby, (plauſibly and without heſitation) act over that, which he hath …

    George Wither · Meditations Upon the Lords Prayer · Open in the reader

A Reply to a Relation A69024

  • Printed
    … méros, & …rgasía, the gaine of their Trade, and that which is their Freehold, and LivelyhoodLivelihood; as well knowing, that if the good Books be guelt of their masculine vertue …
    With rule
    … méros, & …rgasía, the gaine of their Trade, and that which is their Freehold, and LivelyhoodLivelihood; as well knowing, that if the good Books be guelt of their masculine vertue …

    Henry Burton · A Reply to a Relation · p. 72 · Open in the reader

Vindication of the Truth of the Christian Religion A69506

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    … their former employment, for they could not ſubſiſt without doing ſomething to get a LivelyhoodLivelihood. And Jeſus after his Reſurrection appeared ſometimes to them on the Sea ſhore, where …
    With rule
    … their former employment, for they could not ſubſiſt without doing ſomething to get a LivelyhoodLivelihood. And Jeſus after his Reſurrection appeared ſometimes to them on the Sea ſhore, where …

    Jacques Abbadie · Vindication of the Truth of the Christian Religion · p. 273 · Open in the reader

Nehemiah on the Wall in Troublesome Times N00109

  • Printed
    3. Their Prosperity, in matters of outward Estate and LivelyhoodLivelihood, by such help as the care of Government may contribute to that end. That …
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    3. Their Prosperity, in matters of outward Estate and LivelyhoodLivelihood, by such help as the care of Government may contribute to that end. That …

    Jonathan Mitchel · Nehemiah on the Wall in Troublesome Times · p. 4 · Open in the reader