Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #25123 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

posieposy

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

Puritas changed it: 202 times in 151 works
Consistency: 99.0% (202 of 204)
Reach if approved: ~214 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: posy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 204 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (202 changes in 151 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 202)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
In ſtead of posieposy beare a burning tape….
With rule
In ſtead of posieposy beare a burning tape….
Edward Calver · The Four Ages of Man · Open in the reader
Printed
Then Breath and Ray, make and accept the PoſiePosy,
With rule
Then Breath and Ray, make and accept the PoſiePosy,
Nathaniel Whiting · The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
To m…ke a precious PosiePosy for our Father.
With rule
To m…ke a precious PosiePosy for our Father.
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · Open in the reader
Printed
… them unto God; or as a child that would preſent his Father with a poſieposy, he goes into the garden, and gathers flowers and weeds together; but coming to …
With rule
… them unto God; or as a child that would preſent his Father with a poſieposy, he goes into the garden, and gathers flowers and weeds together; but coming to …
Isaac Ambrose · Looking Unto Jesus · p. 544 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ye would that Men ſhould do unto you, do ye unto them: was the PoſiePosy of an Heathen Emperour. 2. She may and muſt aſſay and make after, Lift at …
With rule
… ye would that Men ſhould do unto you, do ye unto them: was the PoſiePosy of an Heathen Emperour. 2. She may and muſt aſſay and make after, Lift at …
John Bryan · Dwelling with God · p. 169 · Open in the reader
Printed
… some company, there came in a woman, and gave him a ring with this PosiePosy, Drink, and Die, saying to him, This is for you: He took, and wore …
With rule
… some company, there came in a woman, and gave him a ring with this PosiePosy, Drink, and Die, saying to him, This is for you: He took, and wore …
Samuel Clarke · A Mirror both for Saints and Sinners · p. 95 · Open in the reader
Printed
… nothing at all. If he gathered many Flowers together and put them as a PosiePosy into our hands; if he hath read many things, to spare us th… reading …
With rule
… nothing at all. If he gathered many Flowers together and put them as a PosiePosy into our hands; if he hath read many things, to spare us th… reading …
Thomas Fuller · The Dead Yet Speaking · p. 572 · Open in the reader
Printed
… me when we were firſt made ſure, in the hoope whereof is a princelie poſieposy, the ſtone is a Pantarbe of ſecret vertue, conſecrated in the place where it …
With rule
… me when we were firſt made ſure, in the hoope whereof is a princelie poſieposy, the ſtone is a Pantarbe of ſecret vertue, conſecrated in the place where it …
William Gouge · The Saints Sacrifice · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Wedding-Ring Fitted A19626

Printed
… CIRCLE OF HEAVENLY LOVE, WHEREIN man and wife ſhould walke all their dayes. THE POSIEPOSY WHEREOF IS AN expreſſion of A good Husbands Kindneſſe towards his vertuous wife, with …
With rule
… CIRCLE OF HEAVENLY LOVE, WHEREIN man and wife ſhould walke all their dayes. THE POSIEPOSY WHEREOF IS AN expreſſion of A good Husbands Kindneſſe towards his vertuous wife, with …
William Crompton · A Wedding-Ring Fitted · Open in the reader