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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8946 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ylill

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it
78 times in 41 works
Consistency
100% (78 of 78)
Reach if approved
~82 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: ill
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
78 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (78 changes in 41 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 78)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    V. 50. bowls] For wine or beer: Or, vessels for …ylill.
    With rule
    V. 50. bowls] For wine or beer: Or, vessels for …ylill.

    John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    b…ylill
    With rule
    b…ylill

    James Ussher · The Protestant School · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſure, that an vtter deſtruction doth hang ouer him, if he wyl continue ſ…ylill in his wickednes. For no mā did euer eſcape wtout puniſhment that dyd miſuſe …
    With rule
    … ſure, that an vtter deſtruction doth hang ouer him, if he wyl continue ſ…ylill in his wickednes. For no mā did euer eſcape wtout puniſhment that dyd miſuſe …

    Henrich Bullinger · Dialogue Between the Libertine or Rebel Anabaptist and the Christian · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    In ye end also wyl I say, yt they are ylill frindes to S. Augustyne, whych to establysh so wycked a purpose, vsurpe his authoryte …
    With rule
    In ye end also wyl I say, yt they are ylill frindes to S. Augustyne, whych to establysh so wycked a purpose, vsurpe his authoryte …

    John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · p. xliii · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … we rede of a great … in scripture, which is called Zambri, which gaue an ylill ensā ple in cōmitting lechery openly wt a whore, whō Phinees yt godly mā …
    With rule
    … we rede of a great … in scripture, which is called Zambri, which gaue an ylill ensā ple in cōmitting lechery openly wt a whore, whō Phinees yt godly mā …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 145 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … like they have in other records; as for the measure of oile, in T…ylill treat. Menacheth, chap. 10. fol. 88. Three l…gges of oile and a halfe, for the …
    With rule
    … like they have in other records; as for the measure of oile, in T…ylill treat. Menacheth, chap. 10. fol. 88. Three l…gges of oile and a halfe, for the …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 109 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … ſleapeth that is to ſay dyeth, & doeth ly… in the graue, beyng kepte there …ylill the day of the general reſurrection. So the Fathers dy… ſleape: ſo Stephen, & all …
    With rule
    … ſleapeth that is to ſay dyeth, & doeth ly… in the graue, beyng kepte there …ylill the day of the general reſurrection. So the Fathers dy… ſleape: ſo Stephen, & all …

    Henrich Bullinger · A Wholesome Antidote Against Anabaptists · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … that wyll not vse this waye, lette hym holde his tongue. For bacbytynge and ylill reportyng doth more hurt then good. And it is not ynoughe for vs to …
    With rule
    … that wyll not vse this waye, lette hym holde his tongue. For bacbytynge and ylill reportyng doth more hurt then good. And it is not ynoughe for vs to …

    Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Catechism for Children · p. lxxxviii · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.