Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4276 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ydleidle

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

Puritas changed it: 322 times in 135 works
Consistency: 99.6% (322 of 323)
Reach if approved: ~339 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: idle
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 323 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (322 changes in 135 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 322)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… pittie, and a lamentable dolour, when shée séeth men wicked, vayne, blasphéemous, hatefull, beastly, ydleidle, couetous, supersticious, and full of other vngodlinesse.
With rule
… pittie, and a lamentable dolour, when shée séeth men wicked, vayne, blasphéemous, hatefull, beastly, ydleidle, couetous, supersticious, and full of other vngodlinesse.
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… landelordes and tennauntes, and do neuer a one of these mens dutyes. These be ydleidle vacaboundes, lyuyng vpon other mens labours: these be named honest barginers, and be in …
With rule
… landelordes and tennauntes, and do neuer a one of these mens dutyes. These be ydleidle vacaboundes, lyuyng vpon other mens labours: these be named honest barginers, and be in …
Thomas Lever · Sermon Preached at Pauls Cross · Open in the reader
Printed
… of lyfe eternal. These are no popysh, monkysh, supersticious & pharisaicall vowes, inuented of the ydleidle braynes of mē, but pure godly, wholesome & christen vowes which so many as hope …
With rule
… of lyfe eternal. These are no popysh, monkysh, supersticious & pharisaicall vowes, inuented of the ydleidle braynes of mē, but pure godly, wholesome & christen vowes which so many as hope …
Thomas Becon · Davids Harp · Open in the reader
Printed
… of h…s neyghbour. The sonnes of God are not cō tent to syt ydleidle, sayth Chri…ostome, but the spirite prouokethe them to take some great and commendable …
With rule
… of h…s neyghbour. The sonnes of God are not cō tent to syt ydleidle, sayth Chri…ostome, but the spirite prouokethe them to take some great and commendable …
Thomas Becon · A New Years Gift More Precious than Gold · Open in the reader
Printed
… hot nor colde, but knowing the truth, do notwithſtanding liue in a careles mediocrity & ydleidle ſecuritie, Chriſt teſtifieth, Luk. 12.37. Matth. 11.20. Alſo of the terrible daunger of theſe, read Heb. 10.26.
With rule
… hot nor colde, but knowing the truth, do notwithſtanding liue in a careles mediocrity & ydleidle ſecuritie, Chriſt teſtifieth, Luk. 12.37. Matth. 11.20. Alſo of the terrible daunger of theſe, read Heb. 10.26.
John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Hope is ſuffering, each one hes their owne exerciſe and therefore let not an ydleidle bodie that is not exerciſed in ſanctifying of the heart by faith, of the …
With rule
… Hope is ſuffering, each one hes their owne exerciſe and therefore let not an ydleidle bodie that is not exerciſed in ſanctifying of the heart by faith, of the …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to ſatisfie their bellie, vvhen both meat, and bellie, ſhall periſh. It is an ydleidle dreame for men to thinke, that theſe parts of our bodies, vvhich are only …
With rule
… to ſatisfie their bellie, vvhen both meat, and bellie, ſhall periſh. It is an ydleidle dreame for men to thinke, that theſe parts of our bodies, vvhich are only …
John Forbes · Preparative Sermon to the Lords Table · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… affaires by diſcretion. Be not aſhamed, ſaith the ſonne of Syrach, to beate an ydleidle ſtubborne ſeruant to the blood. And Nature teacheth vs to caſt out vnprofitable Drones …
With rule
… affaires by diſcretion. Be not aſhamed, ſaith the ſonne of Syrach, to beate an ydleidle ſtubborne ſeruant to the blood. And Nature teacheth vs to caſt out vnprofitable Drones …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 287 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted A01042

Printed
… and praying GOD, that all of vs may seriouslie studie, not so much to YdleIdle, and vnprofitable Wranglings, as both to learne ourselues, and to teach others, that Doctrine …
With rule
… and praying GOD, that all of vs may seriouslie studie, not so much to YdleIdle, and vnprofitable Wranglings, as both to learne ourselues, and to teach others, that Doctrine …
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 5 · Open in the reader