Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #25152 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

priepry

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

Puritas changed it: 225 times in 158 works
Consistency: 86.2% (225 of 261)
Reach if approved: ~274 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pry
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 261 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (225 changes in 158 works, 86.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 225)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
WEe are euer prone to priepry into the ſtate and condition of other men, (ſuch is the peruerſeneſſe of our …
With rule
WEe are euer prone to priepry into the ſtate and condition of other men, (ſuch is the peruerſeneſſe of our …
Gabriel Powel · The Resolved Christian Exhorting to Resolution · p. 261 · Open in the reader
Printed
… redemption by Ieſus Chriſt, 1. Pet. 1.12. therefore except we will make them buſi-bodies, to priepry and meddle with that which they haue not to doe in, which is vtterly …
With rule
… redemption by Ieſus Chriſt, 1. Pet. 1.12. therefore except we will make them buſi-bodies, to priepry and meddle with that which they haue not to doe in, which is vtterly …
John Randall · Twenty-Nine Lectures · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
First, wee must eye them, and priepry into their actions; for this end hath God left us a continuall succession of …
With rule
First, wee must eye them, and priepry into their actions; for this end hath God left us a continuall succession of …
Richard Sibbes · Exposition of Philippians 3 · p. 182 · Open in the reader
Printed
… world, and carrie their bad matters vnder a cloud, that secular eyes should not priepry into them, hath withdrawne the neckes of the cleargie from vnder ciuil power, and …
With rule
… world, and carrie their bad matters vnder a cloud, that secular eyes should not priepry into them, hath withdrawne the neckes of the cleargie from vnder ciuil power, and …
Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 548 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of others: for he which seeeth his owne faults, will haue no leisure to priepry into an others.
With rule
… of others: for he which seeeth his owne faults, will haue no leisure to priepry into an others.
Andrew Willet · A Scourge for a Railer · p. 88 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they produced, by whom practised, if not mostly, if not onely by Papists? They priepry, search, deride, censure the forepart of their Wallet, wherein they put our iniquities: whiles …
With rule
… they produced, by whom practised, if not mostly, if not onely by Papists? They priepry, search, deride, censure the forepart of their Wallet, wherein they put our iniquities: whiles …
Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… further knowledge of their excellent hopes kept from them in the heauens. Men will priepry into all their hopes and poſſibilities in earth; yea, if it be a thing …
With rule
… further knowledge of their excellent hopes kept from them in the heauens. Men will priepry into all their hopes and poſſibilities in earth; yea, if it be a thing …
Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Ephesians 1 · p. 338 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we muſt not diſregard or paſſe lightly over the neceſſities of our brethren, but priepry into their conditions, and watch over them with much eye-fulnes and thought-fulneſſe …
With rule
… we muſt not diſregard or paſſe lightly over the neceſſities of our brethren, but priepry into their conditions, and watch over them with much eye-fulnes and thought-fulneſſe …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 241 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (36)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 31 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Purple Island A00977

Printed
PriePry in the nature of this King and Queen,
With rule
PriePry in the nature of this King and Queen,
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 81 · Open in the reader

Great Salvation by Jesus Christ A38163

Printed
… his Kingly office, then we may reaſonably, and believingly expect the benefit of his PriePry ſtly office, but let us not dreame that Chriſt will be our Jeſus, when …
With rule
… his Kingly office, then we may reaſonably, and believingly expect the benefit of his PriePry ſtly office, but let us not dreame that Chriſt will be our Jeſus, when …
Richard Eedes · Great Salvation by Jesus Christ · p. 100 · Open in the reader

A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine A40681

Printed
I conceive on second thoughts, that the PriePry…ts with the A…ke stood in the valley betwixt the two hils (whilest …
With rule
I conceive on second thoughts, that the PriePry…ts with the A…ke stood in the valley betwixt the two hils (whilest …
Thomas Fuller · A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine · p. 161 · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 A41659

Printed
… he had initiated himſelf at the Orphean Oracle, to ſtudie thoſe my…teries, a PriePry…t telling him, that thoſe, who were initiated in thoſe Rites ſhould partake of …
With rule
… he had initiated himſelf at the Orphean Oracle, to ſtudie thoſe my…teries, a PriePry…t telling him, that thoſe, who were initiated in thoſe Rites ſhould partake of …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 422 · Open in the reader

Treatise of Divinity A47629

Printed
4. PriePry not into the Lords secrets, they belong not unto thee, but be wise unto …
With rule
4. PriePry not into the Lords secrets, they belong not unto thee, but be wise unto …
Edward Leigh · Treatise of Divinity · p. 69 · Open in the reader