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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5575 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

byasbias

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

Puritas changed it
245 times in 166 works
Consistency
79.2% (245 of 309)
Reach if approved
~325 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: bias
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
309 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (245 changes in 166 works, 79.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 245)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … him many things that are pleasing and profitable; it will be as a rough byasbias to turne him aside, and therefore he must deny himselfe, and his owne flesh …
    With rule
    … him many things that are pleasing and profitable; it will be as a rough byasbias to turne him aside, and therefore he must deny himselfe, and his owne flesh …

    John Preston · Grace to the Humble · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … best; and base respects, springing from selfe-love doe not alter the case and byasbias the judgment into a contrary way, but that which is good in it selfe …
    With rule
    … best; and base respects, springing from selfe-love doe not alter the case and byasbias the judgment into a contrary way, but that which is good in it selfe …

    Richard Sibbes · The Bruised Reed · p. 230 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … runne out of order, as when a bowle is not ſet with a right byasbias:) but the good and benefit of the party gouerned, to the glory of God …
    With rule
    … runne out of order, as when a bowle is not ſet with a right byasbias:) but the good and benefit of the party gouerned, to the glory of God …

    William Whately · A Bride Bush · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Furies, as there were fancies in his womens heads! Well, by this meanes, the byasbias of his affections wheeling about his women, as so many Mistresses, caused his heart …
    With rule
    … Furies, as there were fancies in his womens heads! Well, by this meanes, the byasbias of his affections wheeling about his women, as so many Mistresses, caused his heart …

    Henry Burton · The Christians Bulwark · p. 297 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … and haue promiſed amendment; yet being deliuered, haue turned backe againe to their old byasbias, and become as bad or worſe in their euill courſes, then euer before: and …
    With rule
    … and haue promiſed amendment; yet being deliuered, haue turned backe againe to their old byasbias, and become as bad or worſe in their euill courſes, then euer before: and …

    Edward Elton · The Complaint of a Sanctified Sinner Answered · p. 117 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … with a pure impartiality, but his opinion, disposition, inclination, interest, or secret affection, doth byasbias and ponderate his mind, more to one side than to the other.
    With rule
    … with a pure impartiality, but his opinion, disposition, inclination, interest, or secret affection, doth byasbias and ponderate his mind, more to one side than to the other.

    Richard Baxter · The Cure of Church Divisions · p. 155 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … they prouoke others to sinne in the like, and set themselues a flatte Backe-byasbias against Repentance and this Christian examination; they seeme to renewe the decayed colours of …
    With rule
    … they prouoke others to sinne in the like, and set themselues a flatte Backe-byasbias against Repentance and this Christian examination; they seeme to renewe the decayed colours of …

    Richard Greenham · Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … congregation, yet afterwards fall into the same courses againe, and returne to their old byasbias, and now they can outface God and his ministers and all; and thinke it …
    With rule
    … congregation, yet afterwards fall into the same courses againe, and returne to their old byasbias, and now they can outface God and his ministers and all; and thinke it …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Preparation for Christ · p. 195 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (64)

11 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 53 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Treasury of Ancient Adages and Proverbs A20796

  • Printed
    He turneth to his olde ByasBias againe.
    With rule
    He turneth to his olde ByasBias againe.

    Thomas Draxe · A Treasury of Ancient Adages and Proverbs · p. 63 · Open in the reader

Directions and Persuasions to a Sound Conversion A26915

  • Printed
    … they do not Love. It is Love and and not Fear that is the ByasBias, the Inclination, and, as I may say, the Nature of the will of man …
    With rule
    … they do not Love. It is Love and and not Fear that is the ByasBias, the Inclination, and, as I may say, the Nature of the will of man …

    Richard Baxter · Directions and Persuasions to a Sound Conversion · p. 363 · Open in the reader

Satans Temptations in Three Parts A42781

  • Printed
    … made rich, leaves his Sins of Diſtruſt, Envy, or Deceitful Dealing, and follows the ByasBias of his preſent ſtate to other wickedneſſes equally remarkable; and yet may be ſo …
    With rule
    … made rich, leaves his Sins of Diſtruſt, Envy, or Deceitful Dealing, and follows the ByasBias of his preſent ſtate to other wickedneſſes equally remarkable; and yet may be ſo …

    Richard Gilpin · Satans Temptations in Three Parts · p. 121 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … we ſlacken our Care never ſo little they recoyle, and tend to their old ByasBias; and how eaſie is it for him to take off our hand? when 'tis …
    With rule
    … we ſlacken our Care never ſo little they recoyle, and tend to their old ByasBias; and how eaſie is it for him to take off our hand? when 'tis …

    Richard Gilpin · Satans Temptations in Three Parts · p. 153 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to any thing of Comfort, becauſe they wholly deſtroy its inclination, and alter its ByasBias to Hope; yet on the contrary, they make it very nimble, and active to …
    With rule
    … to any thing of Comfort, becauſe they wholly deſtroy its inclination, and alter its ByasBias to Hope; yet on the contrary, they make it very nimble, and active to …

    Richard Gilpin · Satans Temptations in Three Parts · p. 401 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … only an Innate, and Natural tendency in themſelves, which are apt to Sway and ByasBias Men that way, but are alſo capable of Artificial Improvement, to a further inticement …
    With rule
    … only an Innate, and Natural tendency in themſelves, which are apt to Sway and ByasBias Men that way, but are alſo capable of Artificial Improvement, to a further inticement …

    Richard Gilpin · Satans Temptations in Three Parts · p. 63 · Open in the reader

Choice and Practical Expositions on Four Select Psalms A44563

  • Printed
    … the Ʋnderstanding and Judgment, but also the Will and Affections, which have a new ByasBias and Principle put into them, and do savour the things of God after a …
    With rule
    … the Ʋnderstanding and Judgment, but also the Will and Affections, which have a new ByasBias and Principle put into them, and do savour the things of God after a …

    Thomas Horton · Choice and Practical Expositions on Four Select Psalms · p. 311 · Open in the reader

Twenty Sermons A52407

  • Printed
    … the heart; If thine eye be ſingle, if thy heart be upright, if the ByasBias and bent of thy ſoul be towards God, then all the obliquity, or all …
    With rule
    … the heart; If thine eye be ſingle, if thy heart be upright, if the ByasBias and bent of thy ſoul be towards God, then all the obliquity, or all …

    James Nalton · Twenty Sermons · p. 82 · Open in the reader

Exposition Upon 1 Peter A57537

  • Printed
    … to Heaven with ease: Therefore they cannot endure to be put out of their ByasBias, especially being Ancient, and having all this while thought their case good; and withal …
    With rule
    … to Heaven with ease: Therefore they cannot endure to be put out of their ByasBias, especially being Ancient, and having all this while thought their case good; and withal …

    John Rogers · Exposition Upon 1 Peter · p. 235 · Open in the reader

The Arraignment of Error A76988

  • Printed
    1. The firſt ByasBias is, the love of the world, which is a ſtrong byasbias. There are too …
    With rule
    1. The firſt ByasBias is, the love of the world, which is a ſtrong byasbias. There are too …

    Samuel Bolton · The Arraignment of Error · p. 239 · Open in the reader

A Brief View of Colemans New Model of Church Government(1) A78088

  • Printed
    And as for the other party wronged by your ByasBias, becauſe they are ſtrangers, and came voluntary to aſſiſt the furtherance of the great …
    With rule
    And as for the other party wronged by your ByasBias, becauſe they are ſtrangers, and came voluntary to aſſiſt the furtherance of the great …

    Adoniram Byfield · A Brief View of Colemans New Model of Church Government(1) · p. 30 · Open in the reader