Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4074 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lyonslions

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

Puritas changed it: 3,711 times in 1,271 works
Consistency: 99.9% (3,711 of 3,714)
Reach if approved: ~3,903 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: lyons
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,715 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,711 changes in 1,271 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,711)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
And as for lyonslions, there is the length of our lorde,
With rule
And as for lyonslions, there is the length of our lorde,
John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Hipocrycie. Let an Asse be als well decked as may be with a LyonsLions skin and yet will his long eares declare what he is. Let a Uoulfe …
With rule
… of Hipocrycie. Let an Asse be als well decked as may be with a LyonsLions skin and yet will his long eares declare what he is. Let a Uoulfe …
David Fergusson · Answer to Epistle by Renat Benedict · Open in the reader
Printed
… fo…ter vnder that forged visor of Peter, what Scorpion they shrowde vnder tha… LyonsLions skynne.
With rule
… fo…ter vnder that forged visor of Peter, what Scorpion they shrowde vnder tha… LyonsLions skynne.
John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all the Churches of Asia, many bishops withstoode him, and especially Irenaeus, bishop of LyonsLions, and Policrates of Ephesus, as witnesseth Eusebius, libro 5. cap. 25. Eccle. S. Cyprian, also reproueth …
With rule
… all the Churches of Asia, many bishops withstoode him, and especially Irenaeus, bishop of LyonsLions, and Policrates of Ephesus, as witnesseth Eusebius, libro 5. cap. 25. Eccle. S. Cyprian, also reproueth …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the roaring of a Lion, but the braying of him that put on the LyonsLions ſkinne. Therfore ye are much deceiued in thinking they all feare and tremble at …
With rule
… the roaring of a Lion, but the braying of him that put on the LyonsLions ſkinne. Therfore ye are much deceiued in thinking they all feare and tremble at …
George Gifford · Short Reply to the Donatists · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… moſt remote places and borders of the Land, and out of the clawes of LyonsLions and Leopards, her moſt cruell, fierce, barbarous and ſauage enemies.
With rule
… moſt remote places and borders of the Land, and out of the clawes of LyonsLions and Leopards, her moſt cruell, fierce, barbarous and ſauage enemies.
Henry Finch · Exposition of the Song of Solomon · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… my ſoule, for what creature ſo couragious Verſe 11 as the Lyon? Yet the young lyonslions doe lacke, and ſuffer hunger: whether they be young LyonsLions as depending upon the …
With rule
… my ſoule, for what creature ſo couragious Verſe 11 as the Lyon? Yet the young lyonslions doe lacke, and ſuffer hunger: whether they be young LyonsLions as depending upon the …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Seven Consolatory Psalms of David · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Locusts that are the broachers thereof, are said to haue stings to torment, and lyonslions teeth to deuoure their prey.
With rule
… Locusts that are the broachers thereof, are said to haue stings to torment, and lyonslions teeth to deuoure their prey.
William Guild · The Elf-Fire of Purgatory · p. 18 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 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.

the Time of Finding A33242

Printed
… then to think it was a weaſels biting; had it been (ſaid he) a LYONSLIONS BITING, it would not have troubled me half ſo much.
With rule
… then to think it was a weaſels biting; had it been (ſaid he) a LYONSLIONS BITING, it would not have troubled me half ſo much.
John Canne · the Time of Finding · p. 198 · Open in the reader

The Resurrection Revealed A44277

Printed
… about the yeare 178. after Chriſt. Hee was the chiefe Miniſter of the Church at LYONSLIONS. Hee ſaith, hee was the hearer of POLYCARP, which POLYCARP was the Diſciple of …
With rule
… about the yeare 178. after Chriſt. Hee was the chiefe Miniſter of the Church at LYONSLIONS. Hee ſaith, hee was the hearer of POLYCARP, which POLYCARP was the Diſciple of …
Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 13 · Open in the reader

The Churchs Thank-Offering to God Her King A96886

Printed
… from the top of AMANA, from th… top of SHINAR and HERMON, from the LYONSLIONS DEN, from the MOƲNTAINS of the LEOPARDS; then we ſhall …ng the high praiſes …
With rule
… from the top of AMANA, from th… top of SHINAR and HERMON, from the LYONSLIONS DEN, from the MOƲNTAINS of the LEOPARDS; then we ſhall …ng the high praiſes …
Hezekiah Woodward · The Churchs Thank-Offering to God Her King · p. 108 · Open in the reader