Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #25014 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

usurieusury

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

Puritas changed it: 261 times in 64 works
Consistency: 100% (261 of 261)
Reach if approved: ~275 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: usury
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 262 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (261 changes in 64 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 261)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… grieuous practises of men against their brethren, iustly condemned for bloodie practises. As first, UsurieUsury, whereby men binde their brethren to returne gaine, for the bare lone of money …
With rule
… grieuous practises of men against their brethren, iustly condemned for bloodie practises. As first, UsurieUsury, whereby men binde their brethren to returne gaine, for the bare lone of money …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by connivencie to passe by syn, as was the tolleration of polygamie, divorce and usurieusury, see Act. 17. 30. another thing to translate errors from a translation into the original, which …
With rule
… by connivencie to passe by syn, as was the tolleration of polygamie, divorce and usurieusury, see Act. 17. 30. another thing to translate errors from a translation into the original, which …
Henry Ainsworth · A Defense of the Holy Scriptures · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… commanding, that no man get his living by murther, by oppreſſing the poore, by uſurieusury, by extortion, by falſhood and deceit. Moreover, all things living were ſubdued unto him …
With rule
… commanding, that no man get his living by murther, by oppreſſing the poore, by uſurieusury, by extortion, by falſhood and deceit. Moreover, all things living were ſubdued unto him …
Henrich Bullinger · Look from Adam and Behold the Protestants Faith Proved · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of this com…endation of the true Israelite, who putteth not his money to usurieusury. 7. The seventh fruit and evidence of faith, is freedome from briberie, with love of …
With rule
… of this com…endation of the true Israelite, who putteth not his money to usurieusury. 7. The seventh fruit and evidence of faith, is freedome from briberie, with love of …
David Dickson · A Brief Explication of the First Fifty Psalms · p. 71 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is better then life it ſelf: and when they dye, they are paid with uſurieusury in heaven for the loſſe of a temporary life here. Of whom I may …
With rule
… is better then life it ſelf: and when they dye, they are paid with uſurieusury in heaven for the loſſe of a temporary life here. Of whom I may …
Thomas Hodges · The Hoary Head Crowned · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Edicts, against the transportation of Gold and Silver, the wearing of Gold & Silver, excessive usurieusury, Advocates extortions, Duels, Bankrupts, and the like. This Martiall King being murthered by Ravillac …
With rule
… Edicts, against the transportation of Gold and Silver, the wearing of Gold & Silver, excessive usurieusury, Advocates extortions, Duels, Bankrupts, and the like. This Martiall King being murthered by Ravillac …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhowes though there were two permiſſions cheifly in the old Teſtament, of Divorce and UſurieUsury, yet Chriſt under the new, oppoſes to either of theſe permiſſions, the perpetual rule …
With rule
… ſhowes though there were two permiſſions cheifly in the old Teſtament, of Divorce and UſurieUsury, yet Chriſt under the new, oppoſes to either of theſe permiſſions, the perpetual rule …
Thomas Edwards · The Casting Down of the Last and Strongest Hold of Satan · p. 206 · Open in the reader
Printed
Fourthly, that they be not permitted to exhauſt Chriſtians Caveat 4 with their uſurieusury.
With rule
Fourthly, that they be not permitted to exhauſt Chriſtians Caveat 4 with their uſurieusury.
John Weemes · Explication of the Judicial Laws of Moses · p. 60 · 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.