Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #25302 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cruelliecruelly

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

Puritas changed it: 149 times in 70 works
Consistency: 99.3% (149 of 150)
Reach if approved: ~158 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: cruelly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 150 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (149 changes in 70 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 149)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… affliction; but their aduerſaries had no occaſion offered, why they ſhould behaue themſelues ſo cruelliecruelly towards them.
With rule
… affliction; but their aduerſaries had no occaſion offered, why they ſhould behaue themſelues ſo cruelliecruelly towards them.
John Dod · Two Sermons on Lamentations 3 · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
Yea, not onlie haue they robbed Christ Iesus more cruelliecruelly of his Coat than those Roman Souldiours who did cast lots thereon, but also …
With rule
Yea, not onlie haue they robbed Christ Iesus more cruelliecruelly of his Coat than those Roman Souldiours who did cast lots thereon, but also …
William Guild · The Humble Address Both of Church and Poor to Britains Monarch · Open in the reader
Printed
… committed, that hes made the halie Lambe of God to suffer sa shamefullie and cruelliecruelly for them, & ane earnest purpose of amendment and newnes of life in time to …
With rule
… committed, that hes made the halie Lambe of God to suffer sa shamefullie and cruelliecruelly for them, & ane earnest purpose of amendment and newnes of life in time to …
James Melville · A Spiritual Propine of a Pastor to his People · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… men, & cōmon perſons thought to be proteſtants in Paris were ſlaine and moſt violently & cruelliecruelly murthered without anie proceeding by order of law, the number at the leaſt of …
With rule
… men, & cōmon perſons thought to be proteſtants in Paris were ſlaine and moſt violently & cruelliecruelly murthered without anie proceeding by order of law, the number at the leaſt of …
Thomas Stoughton · Against Popery · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… woulde willinglie haue ſhed their bloode in your defence) to haue their blood moſt cruelliecruelly ſpilt, by ſundrie cruell and bloodie battailes: yea, to ſuffer ſuch a floriſhing Church …
With rule
… woulde willinglie haue ſhed their bloode in your defence) to haue their blood moſt cruelliecruelly ſpilt, by ſundrie cruell and bloodie battailes: yea, to ſuffer ſuch a floriſhing Church …
Peter Wentworth · A Pithy Exhortation to Her Majesty · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of my Children, than that a bloodie Herod should cutte all their throats most cruelliecruelly embrewing himselfe in their blood: While Dauid was in a great strait doubting of …
With rule
… of my Children, than that a bloodie Herod should cutte all their throats most cruelliecruelly embrewing himselfe in their blood: While Dauid was in a great strait doubting of …
Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · Open in the reader
Printed
God therefore here declareth vnto Ionas, howe cruelliecruelly he was caried awaye with his zeale: although that zeale, as was ſayde, roſe …
With rule
God therefore here declareth vnto Ionas, howe cruelliecruelly he was caried awaye with his zeale: although that zeale, as was ſayde, roſe …
John Calvin · Daily Sermons Upon Jonah · p. 71 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not forſake it. And Dauid ſayeth, that pride is a chaine vnto them, and cruelliecruelly couereth them as a garment. Saint Paule calleth ſins by the name of members …
With rule
… not forſake it. And Dauid ſayeth, that pride is a chaine vnto them, and cruelliecruelly couereth them as a garment. Saint Paule calleth ſins by the name of members …
John Dod · Exposition of Proverbs 13-14 · p. 55 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

Works A05537

Printed
CruellieCruelly did thame Crucifie.
With rule
CruellieCruelly did thame Crucifie.
David Lindsay · Works · Open in the reader