Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4081 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

trietry

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

Puritas changed it: 3,389 times in 957 works
Consistency: 99.9% (3,389 of 3,391)
Reach if approved: ~3,584 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: try
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,411 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: 3 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,389 changes in 957 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,389)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… iure lyeth for the tenant of the land when one challengeth common, there to trietry whether in right hee ought to haue any or no.
With rule
… iure lyeth for the tenant of the land when one challengeth common, there to trietry whether in right hee ought to haue any or no.
Henry Finch · Law · p. 294 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to foure horſes: other ſome they make markes to ſhoote at: vpon ſome they trietry their ſwordes, how déepe they can cut and flaſh: the aged, and féeble they …
With rule
… to foure horſes: other ſome they make markes to ſhoote at: vpon ſome they trietry their ſwordes, how déepe they can cut and flaſh: the aged, and féeble they …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 397 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fornace, and as washers sope: he shall make cleane the sonnes of Leui & shall trietry them as golde and siluer: VVhat other thing by all these wordes can be …
With rule
… fornace, and as washers sope: he shall make cleane the sonnes of Leui & shall trietry them as golde and siluer: VVhat other thing by all these wordes can be …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God, for God vseth them also as instruments for their triall, they tempt and trietry them, they doe wrestle and fight against them, they buffet them, euery way seeking …
With rule
… God, for God vseth them also as instruments for their triall, they tempt and trietry them, they doe wrestle and fight against them, they buffet them, euery way seeking …
George Gifford · Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils · Open in the reader
Printed
… and receaue thankfully his graces geuen to his Churche by them. Proue diligently and trietry by the touchſtone who ſpeake the wordes of God in pure ſimplicitie as in …
With rule
… and receaue thankfully his graces geuen to his Churche by them. Proue diligently and trietry by the touchſtone who ſpeake the wordes of God in pure ſimplicitie as in …
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſeruants; he is bountifull, not niggardly; if he tarrie long, it is but to trietry thee. Though he kill thee, as Iob ſaith, yet beleeue in him. Hope in …
With rule
… ſeruants; he is bountifull, not niggardly; if he tarrie long, it is but to trietry thee. Though he kill thee, as Iob ſaith, yet beleeue in him. Hope in …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 229 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they doe preuaile, they will be reuenged once for all. God grant we neuer trietry their mercie. Whether they come like Lyons rampant, or like Foxes passant, or like …
With rule
… they doe preuaile, they will be reuenged once for all. God grant we neuer trietry their mercie. Whether they come like Lyons rampant, or like Foxes passant, or like …
Thomas Adams · The Soldiers Honor · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
Though it seeme to meane to trietry out truth, yet because of the innocēt, we must not tempt God, nor do …
With rule
Though it seeme to meane to trietry out truth, yet because of the innocēt, we must not tempt God, nor do …
George Estey · Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 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 Nature and Use of Things Indifferent B15350

Printed
3 Seeing the Apoſtle willeth vs, to TRIETRY ALL things, doubtleſſe he giueth vs to vnderſtand, that ALL things, are not, either …
With rule
3 Seeing the Apoſtle willeth vs, to TRIETRY ALL things, doubtleſſe he giueth vs to vnderſtand, that ALL things, are not, either …
Gabriel Powel · The Nature and Use of Things Indifferent · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vnder the word ALL, are alſo comprehended Traditions: wherefore ſeeing the Apoſtle ſpeakes generally, TRIETRY ALL THINGS, they alſo ought not to be exempted from triall.
With rule
… vnder the word ALL, are alſo comprehended Traditions: wherefore ſeeing the Apoſtle ſpeakes generally, TRIETRY ALL THINGS, they alſo ought not to be exempted from triall.
Gabriel Powel · The Nature and Use of Things Indifferent · p. 2 · Open in the reader