Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #25317 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

waylingwailing

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

Puritas changed it: 147 times in 111 works
Consistency: 98.6% (147 of 149)
Reach if approved: ~157 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wailing
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 149 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (147 changes in 111 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 147)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… we may be sure to find a recouerīg frō sin, deuil, death, hell & euerlasting waylingwailing. But he y^t will not knowlege so great grace, but counteth these things of …
With rule
… we may be sure to find a recouerīg frō sin, deuil, death, hell & euerlasting waylingwailing. But he y^t will not knowlege so great grace, but counteth these things of …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader
Printed
… that pearced him. When this meditation beginnes to take place, bitternesse of spirite with waylingwailing and mourning takes place in like maner. Zach. 12. v. 10. And they shall looke vpon …
With rule
… that pearced him. When this meditation beginnes to take place, bitternesse of spirite with waylingwailing and mourning takes place in like maner. Zach. 12. v. 10. And they shall looke vpon …
William Perkins · The True Manner of Knowing Christ Crucified · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fierie furnace, that neuer shall bee quenched; into an vtter darknesse, where is weeping, waylingwailing, and gnashing of teeth; then bee fauourable O Lord, be fauourable.
With rule
… fierie furnace, that neuer shall bee quenched; into an vtter darknesse, where is weeping, waylingwailing, and gnashing of teeth; then bee fauourable O Lord, be fauourable.
Henry Smith · The Sinful Mans Search · Open in the reader
Printed
… euerlasting fire, blacke darknesse, gnashing of teeth, weeping of the eyes, wringing of hands waylingwailing of heart, that euer-gnawing worme, that neuer-ending torment, that fellowship of the …
With rule
… euerlasting fire, blacke darknesse, gnashing of teeth, weeping of the eyes, wringing of hands waylingwailing of heart, that euer-gnawing worme, that neuer-ending torment, that fellowship of the …
Thomas Wilson · Christs Farewell to Jerusalem and Last Prophecy · Open in the reader
Printed
… but is apointed peculiarly for times of miserable plagues: & therefore Christ ioyneth it with waylingwailing, when he acquiteth the Apostles from neede thereof, vntill the time that beyng spoyled …
With rule
… but is apointed peculiarly for times of miserable plagues: & therefore Christ ioyneth it with waylingwailing, when he acquiteth the Apostles from neede thereof, vntill the time that beyng spoyled …
John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… the creature, The ſecond death, damnation: and there is ſaid to bee weeping and waylingwailing, and gnaſhing of teeth: for firſt, they are ſeparate and quite cut off from …
With rule
… the creature, The ſecond death, damnation: and there is ſaid to bee weeping and waylingwailing, and gnaſhing of teeth: for firſt, they are ſeparate and quite cut off from …
John Downame · The Sum of Sacred Divinity · p. 252 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his paſſions, mourning for her death as ſenſible of his own loſſe, yet neither waylingwailing nor weeping as a man without hope: For, Grandis in ſuos pietas, impiet as …
With rule
… his paſſions, mourning for her death as ſenſible of his own loſſe, yet neither waylingwailing nor weeping as a man without hope: For, Grandis in ſuos pietas, impiet as …
William Hinde · The Holy Life and Happy Death of John Bruen · p. 108 · Open in the reader
Printed
… one in another, but teares and torments, ſorowes & ſighes, crying and howling, wéeping and waylingwailing, groning and gnaſhing of téeth? But the merciful God, the louing Lorde, when we …
With rule
… one in another, but teares and torments, ſorowes & ſighes, crying and howling, wéeping and waylingwailing, groning and gnaſhing of téeth? But the merciful God, the louing Lorde, when we …
Andrew Kingsmill · A View of Mans Estate · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 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.