Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #24912 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lilielily

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

Puritas changed it: 320 times in 71 works
Consistency: 100% (320 of 320)
Reach if approved: ~336 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: lily
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 320 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (320 changes in 71 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 320)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Bishop, though he never enjoyed the Bishoprick it self. M^r Gatak. 2^d Answ. to LilieLily.
With rule
… Bishop, though he never enjoyed the Bishoprick it self. M^r Gatak. 2^d Answ. to LilieLily.
Edward Leigh · A Fit Conjucture of Religion and Learning · p. 271 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and the Answerer, That the Christian Church doth not persecute; no more then a LilieLily doth scratch the Thornes, or a Lambe pursue and teare the …olves, or a …
With rule
… and the Answerer, That the Christian Church doth not persecute; no more then a LilieLily doth scratch the Thornes, or a Lambe pursue and teare the …olves, or a …
Roger Williams · The Bloody Tenant of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience · p. 100 · Open in the reader
Printed
Betwixt the ſpotleſſe lilielily and the roſe:
With rule
Betwixt the ſpotleſſe lilielily and the roſe:
Edward Buckler · Midnights Meditations of Death · Open in the reader
Printed
… a religious man, in the apparell of the order of the predicants, with a lilielily in his hand. The other was like vnto the Apoſtle Paul, as he was …
With rule
… a religious man, in the apparell of the order of the predicants, with a lilielily in his hand. The other was like vnto the Apoſtle Paul, as he was …
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… laid him: if there be (I ſay) any faithfull Mary among them, like a LilieLily among thornes, which led with an holy zeale indeed, but miſled by ignorance, ſhould …
With rule
… laid him: if there be (I ſay) any faithfull Mary among them, like a LilieLily among thornes, which led with an holy zeale indeed, but miſled by ignorance, ſhould …
John Stoughton · Eleven Choice Sermons · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… among tares, and corne among chaffe, and a pearle in a dunghill, and a lilielily among thornes. Albeit there be manie good professors and true Christians among vs abundant …
With rule
… among tares, and corne among chaffe, and a pearle in a dunghill, and a lilielily among thornes. Albeit there be manie good professors and true Christians among vs abundant …
John Boys · The Third Part from John Baptists Nativity · p. 116 · Open in the reader
Printed
And that which gives us further light in this, is that this LilieLily-work is said by divine Institution, to be placed over against the belly, the …
With rule
And that which gives us further light in this, is that this LilieLily-work is said by divine Institution, to be placed over against the belly, the …
John Bunyan · Solomons Temple Spiritualized · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
Liricumphantie, or the May-lilielily. Lilium convállium.
With rule
Liricumphantie, or the May-lilielily. Lilium convállium.
Charles Hoole · An Easy Entrance to the Latin Tongue · p. 169 · 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.