Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4080 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

memoriememory

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

Puritas changed it: 2,898 times in 844 works
Consistency: 99.8% (2,898 of 2,902)
Reach if approved: ~3,049 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: memory
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,902 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,898 changes in 844 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,898)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… iram: which three characters make Cor, the Heart. Mans Affection is Gods Hall: mans MemorieMemory, his Library: mans Intellect, his Priuie Chamber; but his Closset, Sacrary, or Chappell, is …
With rule
… iram: which three characters make Cor, the Heart. Mans Affection is Gods Hall: mans MemorieMemory, his Library: mans Intellect, his Priuie Chamber; but his Closset, Sacrary, or Chappell, is …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 74 · Open in the reader
Printed
… any hinderance either to the féeling or opening our wants, becauſe where ſkill or memoriememory faileth I would haue them vſe the helpe of a booke. I am, you …
With rule
… any hinderance either to the féeling or opening our wants, becauſe where ſkill or memoriememory faileth I would haue them vſe the helpe of a booke. I am, you …
George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to this water: and this ſhewes the care of the people, to retaine in memoriememory the workes of the Lord. Thus did Abraham, for the ſauing of his ſonne …
With rule
… to this water: and this ſhewes the care of the people, to retaine in memoriememory the workes of the Lord. Thus did Abraham, for the ſauing of his ſonne …
William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
But (say you) the most part are ignorant, weake, short of memoriememory, &c. therefore need al helps to stir them vp to pray, &c. where, by …
With rule
But (say you) the most part are ignorant, weake, short of memoriememory, &c. therefore need al helps to stir them vp to pray, &c. where, by …
John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it in the beginning of thy sicknesse, when thou art in perfect sence and memoriememory, participate of the blessed, Sacrament, rather then when thy faculties are more enfeebled, Iob …
With rule
… it in the beginning of thy sicknesse, when thou art in perfect sence and memoriememory, participate of the blessed, Sacrament, rather then when thy faculties are more enfeebled, Iob …
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 515 · Open in the reader
Printed
… mentis, is vpon the alienation of himſelfe, or his anceſtors being of non ſane memoriememory.
With rule
… mentis, is vpon the alienation of himſelfe, or his anceſtors being of non ſane memoriememory.
Henry Finch · Law · p. 264 · Open in the reader
Printed
… become the house wherein thy soule dwelleth, whiles it dwels there: and blesse thy memoriememory, when those two are parted. A good life is mans best monument: and that …
With rule
… become the house wherein thy soule dwelleth, whiles it dwels there: and blesse thy memoriememory, when those two are parted. A good life is mans best monument: and that …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
… if the present age enuie, the posteritie will merueile at it, when neither in memoriememory nor in monumentes beyng compared without afffection, the like shall euer be founde before …
With rule
… if the present age enuie, the posteritie will merueile at it, when neither in memoriememory nor in monumentes beyng compared without afffection, the like shall euer be founde before …
William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · p. 116 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

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

The Art of Rhetoric A15530

Printed
MEmorieMemory is the power retentiue of the mynde, to kepe those thinges, whiche by man …
With rule
MEmorieMemory is the power retentiue of the mynde, to kepe those thinges, whiche by man …
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · p. 112 · Open in the reader
Printed
MEmorieMemory is partly naturall, and partly artificiall. Naturall memoriememory is, when without any preceptes or …
With rule
MEmorieMemory is partly naturall, and partly artificiall. Naturall memoriememory is, when without any preceptes or …
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader

Poems A69225

Printed
TO THE MEMORIEMEMORY OF MY EVER DESIRED FRIEND D^r. DONNE:
With rule
TO THE MEMORIEMEMORY OF MY EVER DESIRED FRIEND D^r. DONNE:
John Donne · Poems · p. 373 · Open in the reader