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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4267 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

driedry

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

Puritas changed it
1,675 times in 631 works
Consistency
98.4% (1,675 of 1,702)
Reach if approved
~1,791 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: dry
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,705 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
2 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,675 changes in 631 works, 98.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,675)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … prouocatiues, enliuenings, trepidations, and fomenting preseruatiues, preuent the wasting of your marrows? Chamberworke will driedry the bones. If my heart, sayth Iob, hath beene deceiued by a woman; it …
    With rule
    … prouocatiues, enliuenings, trepidations, and fomenting preseruatiues, preuent the wasting of your marrows? Chamberworke will driedry the bones. If my heart, sayth Iob, hath beene deceiued by a woman; it …

    Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … lighted vpon the swéet waters, by whom ar ment ye sacred scriptures refreshing the driedry soules. Who soeuer drinketh (saith Christ) of ye waters yt I geue, he shal …
    With rule
    … lighted vpon the swéet waters, by whom ar ment ye sacred scriptures refreshing the driedry soules. Who soeuer drinketh (saith Christ) of ye waters yt I geue, he shal …

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

  3. Printed
    … can make of ſower ſweete, and cauſe a fruitefull braunch to ſpring of a driedry roote) of his owne free will, grace, and goodnes, did ſtirre vp his ſeruant …
    With rule
    … can make of ſower ſweete, and cauſe a fruitefull braunch to ſpring of a driedry roote) of his owne free will, grace, and goodnes, did ſtirre vp his ſeruant …

    Henry Holland · The Christian Exercise of Fasting · p. 125 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … ridges, as alſo ſlippery places, and precipices or downefalls. We ſcarce ſtand ſure upon driedry, firme, and plaine ground; therefore let us beware with all diligence how we come …
    With rule
    … ridges, as alſo ſlippery places, and precipices or downefalls. We ſcarce ſtand ſure upon driedry, firme, and plaine ground; therefore let us beware with all diligence how we come …

    Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 301 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    The first thick, soft; the second driedry and hard;
    With rule
    The first thick, soft; the second driedry and hard;

    Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 49 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of Christians was in his time, but also teacheth, that in the Sacrament is driedry and moyst nourishment, that is bread and drink, and not bare accidents, as the …
    With rule
    … of Christians was in his time, but also teacheth, that in the Sacrament is driedry and moyst nourishment, that is bread and drink, and not bare accidents, as the …

    William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 41 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … a man may be drunke as well without wine as with wine; with the driedry smoake of Tabacco as well as with drinke. As one saith well of prosperity …
    With rule
    … a man may be drunke as well without wine as with wine; with the driedry smoake of Tabacco as well as with drinke. As one saith well of prosperity …

    Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 244 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … moiſtening it, is raine from heaven. Where that is with-held, the earth waxeth driedry and barren: and living creatures want that ſuſtenance which ſhould maintaine their life. But …
    With rule
    … moiſtening it, is raine from heaven. Where that is with-held, the earth waxeth driedry and barren: and living creatures want that ſuſtenance which ſhould maintaine their life. But …

    William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 154 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (27)

16 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 11 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Devils Banket Described A00888

  • Printed
    … could not be cold in this life, that went vp in Fire to Heauen. 2. DrieDry: not like Ephraim, a Cake baked on the one side, but crude and raw …
    With rule
    … could not be cold in this life, that went vp in Fire to Heauen. 2. DrieDry: not like Ephraim, a Cake baked on the one side, but crude and raw …

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … one hand, and Water in the other: whose conuersation mingles (Humentia siccis) Wet and DrieDry together, like the Syriphian Frogs in Pliny, whose challenge was, mihi terra lacus que …
    With rule
    … one hand, and Water in the other: whose conuersation mingles (Humentia siccis) Wet and DrieDry together, like the Syriphian Frogs in Pliny, whose challenge was, mihi terra lacus que …

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 23 · Open in the reader

The Purple Island A00977

  • Printed
    DrieDry up: and let this happie Isle of thine
    With rule
    DrieDry up: and let this happie Isle of thine

    Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · Open in the reader

Four Great Liars Striving A09431

  • Printed
    F DrieDry but windie.
    With rule
    F DrieDry but windie.

    William Perkins · Four Great Liars Striving · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    … both diuorce and marrie them, compounding of them both this one Globe, now called DrieDry Land, and Seas. The waters which yet oppressed, and by their effusion and confusion …
    With rule
    … both diuorce and marrie them, compounding of them both this one Globe, now called DrieDry Land, and Seas. The waters which yet oppressed, and by their effusion and confusion …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 8 · Open in the reader

Commentary on 1 John and Jude A17649

  • Printed
    … in vs, that euerye leaſt cauſe dooth infect vs with the poyſon of it. DrieDry woode will not ſo ſoone burne, being laid vpon the coales, as idolatrie wil …
    With rule
    … in vs, that euerye leaſt cauſe dooth infect vs with the poyſon of it. DrieDry woode will not ſo ſoone burne, being laid vpon the coales, as idolatrie wil …

    John Calvin · Commentary on 1 John and Jude · Open in the reader

Reply to John Deacon A19856

  • Printed
    … in the firſt. Not becauſe there be no Metaphoricall words in the firſt, as DrieDry places, houſe emptie, ſwept, garniſhed. &c. but for that wee now ſpeake of Metaphoricall …
    With rule
    … in the firſt. Not becauſe there be no Metaphoricall words in the firſt, as DrieDry places, houſe emptie, ſwept, garniſhed. &c. but for that wee now ſpeake of Metaphoricall …

    John Darrell · Reply to John Deacon · p. 26 · Open in the reader

Paradise Lost A50919

  • Printed
    So saying, through each Thicket Danck or DrieDry,
    With rule
    So saying, through each Thicket Danck or DrieDry,

    John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    DrieDry-ey'd behold? Adam could not, but wept,
    With rule
    DrieDry-ey'd behold? Adam could not, but wept,

    John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader

A Key into the Language of America A66450

  • Printed
    Paw…awash. DrieDry or ayre this. Pawsunnúmmin. To driedry this or that. Cuppausummúnnash DrieDry these things. Ap …
    With rule
    Paw…awash. DrieDry or ayre this. Pawsunnúmmin. To driedry this or that. Cuppausummúnnash DrieDry these things. Ap …

    Roger Williams · A Key into the Language of America · p. 42 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Paw…awash. DrieDry or ayre this. Pawsunnúmmin. To driedry this or that. Cuppausummúnnash DrieDry these things. Ap…summa. Warme this for me. Paucótche Already. Cutsshitteoùs Wash this. Tatágganish …
    With rule
    Paw…awash. DrieDry or ayre this. Pawsunnúmmin. To driedry this or that. Cuppausummúnnash DrieDry these things. Ap…summa. Warme this for me. Paucótche Already. Cutsshitteoùs Wash this. Tatágganish …

    Roger Williams · A Key into the Language of America · p. 42 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … chepwutch. When it snowes. …ishúnnan. A great raine. …uqui, pâuquaquat. It holds up. …áppi. DrieDry. …áppaquat. DrieDry weather. …pu. Afrost. Missittopu. A great Frost. Capat. Ice. Néechipog. The Deaw …
    With rule
    … chepwutch. When it snowes. …ishúnnan. A great raine. …uqui, pâuquaquat. It holds up. …áppi. DrieDry. …áppaquat. DrieDry weather. …pu. Afrost. Missittopu. A great Frost. Capat. Ice. Néechipog. The Deaw …

    Roger Williams · A Key into the Language of America · p. 83 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … it snowes. …ishúnnan. A great raine. …uqui, pâuquaquat. It holds up. …áppi. DrieDry. …áppaquat. DrieDry weather. …pu. Afrost. Missittopu. A great Frost. Capat. Ice. Néechipog. The Deaw. Michokat. A …
    With rule
    … it snowes. …ishúnnan. A great raine. …uqui, pâuquaquat. It holds up. …áppi. DrieDry. …áppaquat. DrieDry weather. …pu. Afrost. Missittopu. A great Frost. Capat. Ice. Néechipog. The Deaw. Michokat. A …

    Roger Williams · A Key into the Language of America · p. 83 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

  • Printed
    DrieDry]
    With rule
    DrieDry]

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 174 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    DrieDry]
    With rule
    DrieDry]

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 174 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Proverbs 1-3 A95065

  • Printed
    1. DrieDry wood, ſuch as we burn. Behold the fire and the wood. Gen. 22.7.
    With rule
    1. DrieDry wood, ſuch as we burn. Behold the fire and the wood. Gen. 22.7.

    Francis Taylor · Exposition of Proverbs 1-3 · p. 473 · Open in the reader