Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #25105 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sleepiesleepy

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

Puritas changed it: 215 times in 123 works
Consistency: 99.0% (215 of 217)
Reach if approved: ~228 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sleepy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 217 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (215 changes in 123 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 215)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Oh it is a fearefull Iudgement of GOD to haue a ſleepiesleepy or a drowſie Conſcience, It is like a wilde beaſt, which ſo long as …
With rule
Oh it is a fearefull Iudgement of GOD to haue a ſleepiesleepy or a drowſie Conſcience, It is like a wilde beaſt, which ſo long as …
Samuel Smith · Davids Repentance · p. 140 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bodily croſſe or diſtemper; or that he ſees the Lord will needes awaken their ſleepiesleepy conſciences. But for the poore Chriſtian, hee would not giue him reſt, no not …
With rule
… bodily croſſe or diſtemper; or that he ſees the Lord will needes awaken their ſleepiesleepy conſciences. But for the poore Chriſtian, hee would not giue him reſt, no not …
William Whately · The New Birth · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Lord: ſhewing what manner of reſt it muſt bee, not an idlenes, or ſleepiesleepy taking of our reſt and eaſe, but a carefull ſpending of that time in …
With rule
… the Lord: ſhewing what manner of reſt it muſt bee, not an idlenes, or ſleepiesleepy taking of our reſt and eaſe, but a carefull ſpending of that time in …
Nicholas Bownd · The Doctrine of the Sabbath · p. 158 · Open in the reader
Printed
… neuer yet polled from the Church, or not touched (at least in his owne sleepiesleepy sense and apprehension) with the Razor of Conuiction vnder the name of Simony. The …
With rule
… neuer yet polled from the Church, or not touched (at least in his owne sleepiesleepy sense and apprehension) with the Razor of Conuiction vnder the name of Simony. The …
Henry Burton · A Censure of Simony · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… benefites, and bee fedde by his hande, wee may not bee so rechlesse and sleepiesleepy, as not to haue our myndes continually lifted vp to heauen, to giue thanks …
With rule
… benefites, and bee fedde by his hande, wee may not bee so rechlesse and sleepiesleepy, as not to haue our myndes continually lifted vp to heauen, to giue thanks …
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 1215 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Sea, and he will needes goe to heaven, and taketh a ſweet kinde of ſleepiesleepy lazie courſe, and will reforme himſelfe outwardly, but his heart was never broken nor …
With rule
… Sea, and he will needes goe to heaven, and taketh a ſweet kinde of ſleepiesleepy lazie courſe, and will reforme himſelfe outwardly, but his heart was never broken nor …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Implantation into the Natural Olive · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… old sinnes will come a fresh into his remembrance, and trouble him. He is sleepiesleepy, and in his sleepe he hath visions, and dreames, and anxietie of spirit.
With rule
… old sinnes will come a fresh into his remembrance, and trouble him. He is sleepiesleepy, and in his sleepe he hath visions, and dreames, and anxietie of spirit.
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 610 · Open in the reader
Printed
… might reape no ſmall benefit thereby: and ſo doe they accordingly ſit wearie and ſleepiesleepy at the preaching of the word, when they be there. And yet the moſt …
With rule
… might reape no ſmall benefit thereby: and ſo doe they accordingly ſit wearie and ſleepiesleepy at the preaching of the word, when they be there. And yet the moſt …
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 497 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Souls Looking Glass 2 A00643

Printed
2. SleepieSleepy pag. 126
With rule
2. SleepieSleepy pag. 126
William Fenner · The Souls Looking Glass 2 · Open in the reader

The Souls Looking Glass A41128

Printed
2. SleepieSleepy ibid.
With rule
2. SleepieSleepy ibid.
William Fenner · The Souls Looking Glass · Open in the reader