Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #25199 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stormiestormy

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

Puritas changed it: 177 times in 127 works
Consistency: 98.3% (177 of 180)
Reach if approved: ~189 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stormy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 180 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (177 changes in 127 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 177)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… they treasure vp vnto themselues strange feares and astonishments, snares, fire and brimstone, and stormiestormy tempests against their latter end.
With rule
… they treasure vp vnto themselues strange feares and astonishments, snares, fire and brimstone, and stormiestormy tempests against their latter end.
Robert Bolton · The State of True Happiness · p. 119 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whither in the ſeas, or upon the earth. For he commandeth and raiſeth the ſtormiestormy winde, and it lifteth up the waves thereof. Pſal. 107.25. They cry unto the Lord …
With rule
… whither in the ſeas, or upon the earth. For he commandeth and raiſeth the ſtormiestormy winde, and it lifteth up the waves thereof. Pſal. 107.25. They cry unto the Lord …
Adam Harsnett · A Cordial for the Afflicted · p. 284 · Open in the reader
Printed
So that the ſtormiestormy waues from deape out buſht,
With rule
So that the ſtormiestormy waues from deape out buſht,
Petrus Ramus · The Logic Newly Translated · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… kind are more obedient; for the fier and haile, the ſnow and vapour, and ſtormiestormy wind, they do his will, though they know not what they doe.
With rule
… kind are more obedient; for the fier and haile, the ſnow and vapour, and ſtormiestormy wind, they do his will, though they know not what they doe.
William Negus · Mans Active Obedience · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you ascend with a faire Summer, on the other you descend attended with a stormiestormy Winter. The like, saith Linschoten, happeneth at the Cape Rosalgate, in Arabia, and in …
With rule
… you ascend with a faire Summer, on the other you descend attended with a stormiestormy Winter. The like, saith Linschoten, happeneth at the Cape Rosalgate, in Arabia, and in …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 412 · Open in the reader
Printed
Fire and haile, snow and vapour, stormiestormy wind, doing his word. Mountaines and all hils, fruitfull tree and all cedars. The …
With rule
Fire and haile, snow and vapour, stormiestormy wind, doing his word. Mountaines and all hils, fruitfull tree and all cedars. The …
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 188 · Open in the reader
Printed
… respect of His diuine nature, the action of compescing and calming the rage and stormiestormy tempest of blowing windes, and swelling Seas. This heresie was damned in the sixt …
With rule
… respect of His diuine nature, the action of compescing and calming the rage and stormiestormy tempest of blowing windes, and swelling Seas. This heresie was damned in the sixt …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… almightie God, vnto whom (ſo long as they ſaile and are miſerably toſte of ſtormiestormy tempeſtes and windie waues) thou ſendeſt thy readie helpe in time conuenient, and that …
With rule
… almightie God, vnto whom (ſo long as they ſaile and are miſerably toſte of ſtormiestormy tempeſtes and windie waues) thou ſendeſt thy readie helpe in time conuenient, and that …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Godly Prayers out of Davids Psalms · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Seamans Direction in Time of Storm A17289

Printed
… give him the glory of it, and let God bee thus praiſed in the StormieStormy Wind.
With rule
… give him the glory of it, and let God bee thus praiſed in the StormieStormy Wind.
Jeremiah Burroughs · The Seamans Direction in Time of Storm · p. 46 · Open in the reader