Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4123 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

praiedprayed

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

Puritas changed it: 1,691 times in 419 works
Consistency: 100% (1,691 of 1,691)
Reach if approved: ~1,777 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: prayed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,691 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,691 changes in 419 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,691)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… There is nothing more shames and deiects a good heart then this, I haue praiedprayed, heard, read, &c: 'tis true, but how haue I done it? full poorely, slightly …
With rule
… There is nothing more shames and deiects a good heart then this, I haue praiedprayed, heard, read, &c: 'tis true, but how haue I done it? full poorely, slightly …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſtung him to death, who called them of his infinite goodnes to repentance, who praiedprayed for their converſion when they crucified him. To which Saviour with the Father and …
With rule
… ſtung him to death, who called them of his infinite goodnes to repentance, who praiedprayed for their converſion when they crucified him. To which Saviour with the Father and …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of his holie Spirit, that they abyde in his veritie, according as he hath praiedprayed for them, and so continue they vessels of his glorie, for euer. And herein …
With rule
… of his holie Spirit, that they abyde in his veritie, according as he hath praiedprayed for them, and so continue they vessels of his glorie, for euer. And herein …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 189 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſecond is of reſolution not to be the vvorlds in any caſe, for Chriſt praiedprayed not for the vvorld, Not to be our ovvne, for gods children haue bene …
With rule
… ſecond is of reſolution not to be the vvorlds in any caſe, for Chriſt praiedprayed not for the vvorld, Not to be our ovvne, for gods children haue bene …
William Loe · The Merchant Real · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
And being in an agony he praiedprayed more earnestly; and his sweat was as it were great droppes of bloud falling …
With rule
And being in an agony he praiedprayed more earnestly; and his sweat was as it were great droppes of bloud falling …
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 566 · Open in the reader
Printed
… came againe, & went to M. Tindall, and ſaid, he had loſt his purſe; and praiedprayed him to lend him xl. s̄, which M. Tindall did. Then ſaied Phillips to …
With rule
… came againe, & went to M. Tindall, and ſaid, he had loſt his purſe; and praiedprayed him to lend him xl. s̄, which M. Tindall did. Then ſaied Phillips to …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thus: There is an immediate prouidence of God in a Lot: Therefore Gods people praiedprayed when they vsed a Lot.
With rule
… thus: There is an immediate prouidence of God in a Lot: Therefore Gods people praiedprayed when they vsed a Lot.
Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · p. 211 · Open in the reader
Printed
… will further ſhew more diſtinctly. Firſt, who thoſe other be which are to be praiedprayed for. Secondly, in what order others are to be praiedprayed for. Thirdly, what things …
With rule
… will further ſhew more diſtinctly. Firſt, who thoſe other be which are to be praiedprayed for. Secondly, in what order others are to be praiedprayed for. Thirdly, what things …
William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 376 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.