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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4203 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

desyreddesired

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

Puritas changed it
307 times in 118 works
Consistency
100% (307 of 307)
Reach if approved
~323 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: desired
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
307 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (307 changes in 118 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 307)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … etye throughe the fayth he had in the ſonne of God, he hath dayly deſyreddesired, and attended. Whereas now he heareth hys labours onely approued by the iudgement of …
    With rule
    … etye throughe the fayth he had in the ſonne of God, he hath dayly deſyreddesired, and attended. Whereas now he heareth hys labours onely approued by the iudgement of …

    Philipp Melanchthon · History of Three Renowned Reformers · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … prayer, prophesying▪ and other ordinances? were there no other cōverted al the while which desyreddesired to be admitted into their fellowship? or had they no use of excommunication for …
    With rule
    … prayer, prophesying▪ and other ordinances? were there no other cōverted al the while which desyreddesired to be admitted into their fellowship? or had they no use of excommunication for …

    John Robinson · Justification of Separation from the Church of England · p. 138 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    But wold to god / that only the Bramble off Rome had deſyreddesired this kingdom and lordſhipp: and that our olyue trees alſo and our figg trees …
    With rule
    But wold to god / that only the Bramble off Rome had deſyreddesired this kingdom and lordſhipp: and that our olyue trees alſo and our figg trees …

    Walter Travers · Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God · p. 86 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … vnto them the liuinge God their deliuerer: And that shape or forme they moste desyreddesired to haue / wich they hade seene the Egyptians vse to represente vnto them their …
    With rule
    … vnto them the liuinge God their deliuerer: And that shape or forme they moste desyreddesired to haue / wich they hade seene the Egyptians vse to represente vnto them their …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … that wée should the rather couette it. For nothing is more auydyously to be desyreddesired, then is the swéete peace of God.
    With rule
    … that wée should the rather couette it. For nothing is more auydyously to be desyreddesired, then is the swéete peace of God.

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … and if he might haue had this parke to it, he woulde neuer haue desyreddesired more. Thys was a farmer not altogether so couetus a mā, as ther be …
    With rule
    … and if he might haue had this parke to it, he woulde neuer haue desyreddesired more. Thys was a farmer not altogether so couetus a mā, as ther be …

    Hugh Latimer · A Most Faithful Sermon · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … sinne, and not the declarers of y• forgeuenes, I haue gottē that I haue desyreddesired for the probacion of the second parte of this littel treatyse. But let vs …
    With rule
    … sinne, and not the declarers of y• forgeuenes, I haue gottē that I haue desyreddesired for the probacion of the second parte of this littel treatyse. But let vs …

    Thomas Becon · The Castle of Comfort · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … that he might heale thē? Dyd not he go, whyther so euer he was desyreddesired? Dyd not he graunt ye peticions of the faythful? Dyd not he come rydynge …
    With rule
    … that he might heale thē? Dyd not he go, whyther so euer he was desyreddesired? Dyd not he graunt ye peticions of the faythful? Dyd not he come rydynge …

    Thomas Becon · A Pleasant New Nosegay · 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.