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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4325 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

boylingboiling

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

Puritas changed it
686 times in 430 works
Consistency
97.3% (686 of 705)
Reach if approved
~741 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: boiling
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
705 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (686 changes in 430 works, 97.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 686)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … able inoughe to ſtay the raging Seas: ſo ſhall your proude waues of your boylingboiling ſtomacks and ouer buſie heades, be broken and brought full lowe, where and when …
    With rule
    … able inoughe to ſtay the raging Seas: ſo ſhall your proude waues of your boylingboiling ſtomacks and ouer buſie heades, be broken and brought full lowe, where and when …

    Anthony Gilby · Of Election and Reprobation · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … reported in sundry Chronicles. As fyrst, how he was put into a vessell of boylingboiling Oyle: and that he turned certayne peeces of Wood into Golde, and Stones by …
    With rule
    … reported in sundry Chronicles. As fyrst, how he was put into a vessell of boylingboiling Oyle: and that he turned certayne peeces of Wood into Golde, and Stones by …

    Patrick Hamilton · Concerning the Doctrine of Faith and of the Law · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſuch a divell to tempt, and ſuch a world to allure, and ſuch corruptions boylingboiling within. He wonders how Abraham got to heaven beyond the Starres, and Moſes, but …
    With rule
    … ſuch a divell to tempt, and ſuch a world to allure, and ſuch corruptions boylingboiling within. He wonders how Abraham got to heaven beyond the Starres, and Moſes, but …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Humiliation · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … at Epheſus, and ſent to Rome, where Domitian commanded him to bee put into boylingboiling oyle, in deriſion of the Chriſtian name, which is taken from oyle; but comming …
    With rule
    … at Epheſus, and ſent to Rome, where Domitian commanded him to bee put into boylingboiling oyle, in deriſion of the Chriſtian name, which is taken from oyle; but comming …

    John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 255 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … towards them, they tooke heart and entertained vs in the best manner they could, boylingboiling Cod and such other things as they had for vs. At length with much …
    With rule
    … towards them, they tooke heart and entertained vs in the best manner they could, boylingboiling Cod and such other things as they had for vs. At length with much …

    William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 59 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … excrements of mettals, drosse, and reprobate silver, Ier. 6. 28. Ezek. 22 18. To the excrements of a boylingboiling pot, a great scumme, Ezek. 24. 11. 12. To the worst of all diseases, sores, Esai. 1. 6. Rottennesse …
    With rule
    … excrements of mettals, drosse, and reprobate silver, Ier. 6. 28. Ezek. 22 18. To the excrements of a boylingboiling pot, a great scumme, Ezek. 24. 11. 12. To the worst of all diseases, sores, Esai. 1. 6. Rottennesse …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 323 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … theſe conditions are as it were colde water caſt into a boylingboiling caldron, which boylingboiling before through heate, now ceaſeth. The Apoſtle Iames compareth ſuch prayers to waues of …
    With rule
    … theſe conditions are as it were colde water caſt into a boylingboiling caldron, which boylingboiling before through heate, now ceaſeth. The Apoſtle Iames compareth ſuch prayers to waues of …

    John Smyth · A Pattern of True Prayer · p. 177 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    In the morning, about 8. of the clocke, the rude people, (boylingboiling with drinke) cried out: burne him, burn him. This rude people the Franciſcans greatly …
    With rule
    In the morning, about 8. of the clocke, the rude people, (boylingboiling with drinke) cried out: burne him, burn him. This rude people the Franciſcans greatly …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 431 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (19)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Purple Island A00977

  • Printed
    BoylingBoiling in sulphur, and hot-bubbling pitch;
    With rule
    BoylingBoiling in sulphur, and hot-bubbling pitch;

    Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 15 · Open in the reader

A True and Faithful Account of the Four Chiefest Plantations in America A33345

  • Printed
    … Cistern, which is near the stairs that goes down from the Mill to the BoylingBoiling-House.
    With rule
    … Cistern, which is near the stairs that goes down from the Mill to the BoylingBoiling-House.

    Samuel Clarke · A True and Faithful Account of the Four Chiefest Plantations in America · p. 80 · Open in the reader

The Signs of the Times A52817

  • Printed
    … large as the greateſt Chaldrons, theſe muſt be predictive Signs to us, as Jeremys BoylingBoiling-Pot was to the Jews, Jer. 1.13. and as Ezekiels was, Ezek. 24.3.4.13. Repreſenting Jeruſalem which …
    With rule
    … large as the greateſt Chaldrons, theſe muſt be predictive Signs to us, as Jeremys BoylingBoiling-Pot was to the Jews, Jer. 1.13. and as Ezekiels was, Ezek. 24.3.4.13. Repreſenting Jeruſalem which …

    Christopher Ness · The Signs of the Times · p. 52 · Open in the reader

Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself A57963

  • Printed
    … The naked influence of God annihilates all the acts of the soule. Cap. 4. pag. 28. BoylingBoiling desires after Christ, savours too much of action; — hindereth the soule to be perfectly …
    With rule
    … The naked influence of God annihilates all the acts of the soule. Cap. 4. pag. 28. BoylingBoiling desires after Christ, savours too much of action; — hindereth the soule to be perfectly …

    Samuel Rutherford · Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself · p. 254 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Ezra Nehemiah Ester Job and Psalms A63066

  • Printed
    Verſe 23. For why ſhould there be wrath] Heb. BoylingBoiling or foaming anger, great indignation, as it is rendered, and made the utmoſt degree …
    With rule
    Verſe 23. For why ſhould there be wrath] Heb. BoylingBoiling or foaming anger, great indignation, as it is rendered, and made the utmoſt degree …

    John Trapp · Commentary on Ezra Nehemiah Ester Job and Psalms · p. 27 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Malachi A71123

  • Printed
    … therefore them wee call, that is, count happy. Hierom here calls them, arrogant men. BoylingBoiling, raging men, ſwelling and preſumptuous. Zedim, comes of a roote that hath all theſe …
    With rule
    … therefore them wee call, that is, count happy. Hierom here calls them, arrogant men. BoylingBoiling, raging men, ſwelling and preſumptuous. Zedim, comes of a roote that hath all theſe …

    Richard Stock · Commentary on Malachi · p. 76 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Malachi 2 A93917

  • Printed
    … therefore them wee call, that is, count happy. Hierom here calls them, arrogant men. BoylingBoiling, raging men, ſwelling and preſumptuous. Zedim, comes of a roote that hath all theſe …
    With rule
    … therefore them wee call, that is, count happy. Hierom here calls them, arrogant men. BoylingBoiling, raging men, ſwelling and preſumptuous. Zedim, comes of a roote that hath all theſe …

    Richard Stock · Commentary on Malachi 2 · p. 76 · Open in the reader