Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4253 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

repayredrepaired

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

Puritas changed it: 226 times in 132 works
Consistency: 99.5% (226 of 227)
Reach if approved: ~239 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: repaired
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 227 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (226 changes in 132 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 226)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… idle drones, good for nothing but fruges conſumere; or ſuppoſe an high-way bee repayredrepaired, or a Church reedified, or an Hoſpitall erected, what terrour can this be from …
With rule
… idle drones, good for nothing but fruges conſumere; or ſuppoſe an high-way bee repayredrepaired, or a Church reedified, or an Hoſpitall erected, what terrour can this be from …
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… threescore and two weekes; and then shall the streates and the broken walles be repayredrepaired again in short tyme. And after threescore & two weekes, Christ shalbe slaine and nothing …
With rule
… threescore and two weekes; and then shall the streates and the broken walles be repayredrepaired again in short tyme. And after threescore & two weekes, Christ shalbe slaine and nothing …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 533 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Reaſ. 4 all the liuing members of the Church are new Creatures; Gods Image is repayredrepaired in them, that wiſedome and righteouſneſſe and holineſſe is renewed in them, which they …
With rule
… Reaſ. 4 all the liuing members of the Church are new Creatures; Gods Image is repayredrepaired in them, that wiſedome and righteouſneſſe and holineſſe is renewed in them, which they …
John Randall · Twenty-Nine Lectures · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of heart & life. Let vs looke to our ſelues, that thoſe things may bee repayredrepaired in vs that is wanting in them, that ſo the Lord may accept of …
With rule
… of heart & life. Let vs looke to our ſelues, that thoſe things may bee repayredrepaired in vs that is wanting in them, that ſo the Lord may accept of …
Samuel Smith · Exposition of Hosea 6 · p. 237 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vnderſtand, that theyr labours ſhall one day be finiſhed, and that they ſhall be repayredrepaired and renewed. Laſt of all he maketh mencion of the Angelles, and ſayth, that …
With rule
… vnderſtand, that theyr labours ſhall one day be finiſhed, and that they ſhall be repayredrepaired and renewed. Laſt of all he maketh mencion of the Angelles, and ſayth, that …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · p. 212 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sting. p. 154. l. 12. Hotspur, r. Swash-buckler. p. 160. l. 29. againe, r. worth. p. 165. l. 1. repayredrepaired, r. repayed. p. 165. l. 11. at the reproach, r. of the reproach. p. 168. l. 17. Ephes …
With rule
… sting. p. 154. l. 12. Hotspur, r. Swash-buckler. p. 160. l. 29. againe, r. worth. p. 165. l. 1. repayredrepaired, r. repayed. p. 165. l. 11. at the reproach, r. of the reproach. p. 168. l. 17. Ephes …
Richard Younge · The Victory of Patience · Open in the reader
Printed
… breach, perseuered still in questioning him, Where his Church was before Luther? Whereupon hee repayredrepaired againe to Sir Humfrey Lynde, and required some further satisfaction of him concerning that …
With rule
… breach, perseuered still in questioning him, Where his Church was before Luther? Whereupon hee repayredrepaired againe to Sir Humfrey Lynde, and required some further satisfaction of him concerning that …
Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the graces of the spirit of God are once decayed, they can neuer bee repayredrepaired and recouered, but with much sorrowe and great danger: for it cannot but breede …
With rule
… the graces of the spirit of God are once decayed, they can neuer bee repayredrepaired and recouered, but with much sorrowe and great danger: for it cannot but breede …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 248 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.