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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4332 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

industrieindustry

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

Puritas changed it
754 times in 345 works
Consistency
94.1% (754 of 801)
Reach if approved
~842 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: industry
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
801 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (754 changes in 345 works, 94.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 754)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … meate which they eate. Such Labans ſpare, & care, and toyle exceedingly, imagining through their induſtrieindustry and pinching, both to attaine to abundance and alwayes to liue in plentie. Yet …
    With rule
    … meate which they eate. Such Labans ſpare, & care, and toyle exceedingly, imagining through their induſtrieindustry and pinching, both to attaine to abundance and alwayes to liue in plentie. Yet …

    Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 249 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … there, vnlesse we will ascribe the hauing and inioying of them to our owne industrieindustry, as though they were no gifts of God: which to thinke were great impietie.
    With rule
    … there, vnlesse we will ascribe the hauing and inioying of them to our owne industrieindustry, as though they were no gifts of God: which to thinke were great impietie.

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 548 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … immaculate conuerting soules. Which wee do not embase, but establishe rather. Let the commendable industrieindustry of the godly employed in the exercise of Gods commaundements haue her proper dignitie …
    With rule
    … immaculate conuerting soules. Which wee do not embase, but establishe rather. Let the commendable industrieindustry of the godly employed in the exercise of Gods commaundements haue her proper dignitie …

    John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … you to reſiſt the Diuell ſtedfaſt in the faith. Let all your ſtudie, and induſtrieindustry, and care be, to bee armed with a ſtrong and liuelie faith. That ſhall …
    With rule
    … you to reſiſt the Diuell ſtedfaſt in the faith. Let all your ſtudie, and induſtrieindustry, and care be, to bee armed with a ſtrong and liuelie faith. That ſhall …

    George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 72 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … nature of man; if nothing but that may be obteyned by the nature and industrieindustry of a man, then surely in that man, is not the spirit of God …
    With rule
    … nature of man; if nothing but that may be obteyned by the nature and industrieindustry of a man, then surely in that man, is not the spirit of God …

    Richard Greenham · Two Learned and Godly Sermons · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    7 The good huſwife is commended in the Prouerbs, who by labour and induſtrieindustry enricheth her family.
    With rule
    7 The good huſwife is commended in the Prouerbs, who by labour and induſtrieindustry enricheth her family.

    Robert Hill · The Pathway to Prayer and Piety · p. 45 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … ſo viſible vnto them, neuer ſo well knowne of them, by their ſtudy and induſtrieindustry, in ſearching into the ſecrets of Nature; Yea, let them haue a ſpeculatiue ſight …
    With rule
    … ſo viſible vnto them, neuer ſo well knowne of them, by their ſtudy and induſtrieindustry, in ſearching into the ſecrets of Nature; Yea, let them haue a ſpeculatiue ſight …

    Thomas Barnes · The Gales of Grace · p. 134 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    But Salomon speaketh more properly, not that industrieindustry, but that the Lord him selfe is the cause. For euen this also is …
    With rule
    But Salomon speaketh more properly, not that industrieindustry, but that the Lord him selfe is the cause. For euen this also is …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 136 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (47)

26 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 21 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition of Zechariah 1-9 A09272

  • Printed
    … had found [the Angel, &c. and ſaid] their report is double: Firſt, of their InduſtrieIndustry and Diligence, [Wee have walked to and fro thorow the Earth] wee have tooke …
    With rule
    … had found [the Angel, &c. and ſaid] their report is double: Firſt, of their InduſtrieIndustry and Diligence, [Wee have walked to and fro thorow the Earth] wee have tooke …

    William Pemble · Exposition of Zechariah 1-9 · p. 11 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    … Discoueries, Priuate and Publike Customes, and the most Remarkable Rarities of Nature, or Humane IndustrieIndustry, in the same.
    With rule
    … Discoueries, Priuate and Publike Customes, and the most Remarkable Rarities of Nature, or Humane IndustrieIndustry, in the same.

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … produced, but euen to the societies of men; yea, where as neither Art, nor IndustrieIndustry, nor ciuill Societie hath bound men as men together, yet the grounds of these …
    With rule
    … produced, but euen to the societies of men; yea, where as neither Art, nor IndustrieIndustry, nor ciuill Societie hath bound men as men together, yet the grounds of these …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 26 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … a Moore, af…er made tributarie to the Portugall; which Nature hath made barren; IndustrieIndustry, plentifull: the more fertile Element yeelds barrennesse and Sands; the barrenner bringeth in a …
    With rule
    … a Moore, af…er made tributarie to the Portugall; which Nature hath made barren; IndustrieIndustry, plentifull: the more fertile Element yeelds barrennesse and Sands; the barrenner bringeth in a …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 437 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … and magnificent, with Towers, Temples, triumphant Arches, Obeliskes, Pyramides, and the like tokens of IndustrieIndustry, Antiquitie, and Maiestie. Saba was founded by that Queene which visited Salomon, and was …
    With rule
    … and magnificent, with Towers, Temples, triumphant Arches, Obeliskes, Pyramides, and the like tokens of IndustrieIndustry, Antiquitie, and Maiestie. Saba was founded by that Queene which visited Salomon, and was …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 571 · Open in the reader

Ten Sermons A11454

  • Printed
    … the spirit of God is the first and principall worker of them. Nature, Art, IndustrieIndustry, and all other subsidiary furtherances, being but second Agents vnder him; and as meanes …
    With rule
    … the spirit of God is the first and principall worker of them. Nature, Art, IndustrieIndustry, and all other subsidiary furtherances, being but second Agents vnder him; and as meanes …

    Robert Sanderson · Ten Sermons · p. 105 · Open in the reader

Exposition of 1 Thessalonians A11591

  • Printed
    What if we ſay, he intends either it, or that which is Analogicall? InduſtrieIndustry of bodie or mind, according as diuerſitie of Callings, requires either.
    With rule
    What if we ſay, he intends either it, or that which is Analogicall? InduſtrieIndustry of bodie or mind, according as diuerſitie of Callings, requires either.

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 308 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to follow the Authentique Tranſlation; and thinke, without ſtrayning, the obſeruation flowes hence; That InduſtrieIndustry is no ſmall part of honeſtie. Firſt, vertuous goodneſſe, I am ſure, there is …
    With rule
    … to follow the Authentique Tranſlation; and thinke, without ſtrayning, the obſeruation flowes hence; That InduſtrieIndustry is no ſmall part of honeſtie. Firſt, vertuous goodneſſe, I am ſure, there is …

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 313 · Open in the reader

The Brides Longing for her Bridegrooms Second Coming A12170

  • Printed
    … a concentrating and joyning together of the parts of Nature, and the parts of IndustrieIndustry, and likewise of the parts of Grace. And that which did steere his conversation …
    With rule
    … a concentrating and joyning together of the parts of Nature, and the parts of IndustrieIndustry, and likewise of the parts of Grace. And that which did steere his conversation …

    Richard Sibbes · The Brides Longing for her Bridegrooms Second Coming · p. 116 · Open in the reader

Sermon Preached in London A19590

  • Printed
    … wise men may casily perceiue that this grew only from these two rootes, of IndustrieIndustry and Vnitie: both of them being perfected with a valour and resolution of heart …
    With rule
    … wise men may casily perceiue that this grew only from these two rootes, of IndustrieIndustry and Vnitie: both of them being perfected with a valour and resolution of heart …

    William Crashaw · Sermon Preached in London · Open in the reader

The Life of Justification Opened A29752

  • Printed
    … to many, now adaies, & as Papists, Socinians & Arminians do oppose themselves with all their IndustrieIndustry & learning unto this doctrine of the Imputation of the Surety-Righteousness of Christ; so …
    With rule
    … to many, now adaies, & as Papists, Socinians & Arminians do oppose themselves with all their IndustrieIndustry & learning unto this doctrine of the Imputation of the Surety-Righteousness of Christ; so …

    John Brown · The Life of Justification Opened · p. 58 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … more grace & glory for Peter than for Iudas, but Peter by his own Paines & IndustrieIndustry, by his Faith & New Obedience, did purchase the whole personal and immediat Right unto …
    With rule
    … more grace & glory for Peter than for Iudas, but Peter by his own Paines & IndustrieIndustry, by his Faith & New Obedience, did purchase the whole personal and immediat Right unto …

    John Brown · The Life of Justification Opened · p. 344 · Open in the reader

Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism A29753

  • Printed
    … any teacher. Hence also they thought, that man by his owne Ability, Paines and IndustrieIndustry, might recove… all his losses; and that nothing more was requisite, but to live …
    With rule
    … any teacher. Hence also they thought, that man by his owne Ability, Paines and IndustrieIndustry, might recove… all his losses; and that nothing more was requisite, but to live …

    John Brown · Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism · p. 110 · Open in the reader

The Reformed Library Keeper A37083

  • Printed
    … will not bee able to add anie thing unto them, which by their own InduſtrieIndustry, they may not afterward attein anie where elſ, as well as there. Truly it …
    With rule
    … will not bee able to add anie thing unto them, which by their own InduſtrieIndustry, they may not afterward attein anie where elſ, as well as there. Truly it …

    John Dury · The Reformed Library Keeper · p. 1 · Open in the reader

The Unfortunate Politician A40648

  • Printed
    … Harbours. However the Grecians conceiving Navigation beneath their honour (which indeed was above their IndustrieIndustry,) resigned the benefit of Trading in their owne Seas to the Italians of Pisa …
    With rule
    … Harbours. However the Grecians conceiving Navigation beneath their honour (which indeed was above their IndustrieIndustry,) resigned the benefit of Trading in their owne Seas to the Italians of Pisa …

    Thomas Fuller · The Unfortunate Politician · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … returne. Here, what tugging, what Towing, what Rowing! nothing was omitted, which Art, or IndustrieIndustry, Skill, or Will, could performe: Andronicus dropping a shower of Gold to the Saylers …
    With rule
    … returne. Here, what tugging, what Towing, what Rowing! nothing was omitted, which Art, or IndustrieIndustry, Skill, or Will, could performe: Andronicus dropping a shower of Gold to the Saylers …

    Thomas Fuller · The Unfortunate Politician · Open in the reader

Two Sermons A40658

  • Printed
    Secondly, see her IndustrieIndustry, that she would condescend to gleane. Though I thinke not, with the Iewish Rabbins …
    With rule
    Secondly, see her IndustrieIndustry, that she would condescend to gleane. Though I thinke not, with the Iewish Rabbins …

    Thomas Fuller · Two Sermons · p. 133 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    See here her constancie in IndustrieIndustry: Many are very diligent at the first setting forth, for a fit and a …
    With rule
    See here her constancie in IndustrieIndustry: Many are very diligent at the first setting forth, for a fit and a …

    Thomas Fuller · Two Sermons · p. 149 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Since therefore so much good commeth from IndustrieIndustry▪ I could wish there were a publike Vineyard, into which all they should be …
    With rule
    Since therefore so much good commeth from IndustrieIndustry▪ I could wish there were a publike Vineyard, into which all they should be …

    Thomas Fuller · Two Sermons · p. 192 · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 A41659

  • Printed
    His InduſtrieIndustry, Works, and Diſciples. Ibid.
    With rule
    His InduſtrieIndustry, Works, and Diſciples. Ibid.

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … His Pride, and contention. His temperance according to the Character of his friends. His IndustrieIndustry, and Diſciples. His Philoſophie. 1. Phyſicks, of Atomes, &c. 2. His contempt of Logick, and Rhetorick …
    With rule
    … His Pride, and contention. His temperance according to the Character of his friends. His IndustrieIndustry, and Diſciples. His Philoſophie. 1. Phyſicks, of Atomes, &c. 2. His contempt of Logick, and Rhetorick …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 440 · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 A41688

  • Printed
    … are ſuch as theſe, Juſtice, Temperance, Moderation as to paſſions, Clemence, Self-denial, Courage, InduſtrieIndustry and Fidelitie, of which we find many and great Philoſophemes in Plato.
    With rule
    … are ſuch as theſe, Juſtice, Temperance, Moderation as to paſſions, Clemence, Self-denial, Courage, InduſtrieIndustry and Fidelitie, of which we find many and great Philoſophemes in Plato.

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 204 · Open in the reader

A Body of Divinity A64622

  • Printed
    They be equall in gifts, either of Nature or IndustrieIndustry, as brethren in a family, Citizens in a Common-wealth, Pastors in a Church …
    With rule
    They be equall in gifts, either of Nature or IndustrieIndustry, as brethren in a family, Citizens in a Common-wealth, Pastors in a Church …

    James Ussher · A Body of Divinity · p. 256 · Open in the reader

Concerning Ministers Meddling with State Matters in their Sermons A81905

  • Printed
    … would have ſome Queſtions propoſed, concerning Religiouſneſſe and Rationalitie, Godlineſſe and Honeſty, Conſcionableneſſe and InduſtrieIndustry (all which are Homogeneall matters) which ſhould oblige thoſe that give their advices, to …
    With rule
    … would have ſome Queſtions propoſed, concerning Religiouſneſſe and Rationalitie, Godlineſſe and Honeſty, Conſcionableneſſe and InduſtrieIndustry (all which are Homogeneall matters) which ſhould oblige thoſe that give their advices, to …

    John Dury · Concerning Ministers Meddling with State Matters in their Sermons · p. 171 · Open in the reader

A Seasonable Discourse A81930

  • Printed
    … be done in this kinde that may be deſired, and nothing that may advance InduſtrieIndustry neglected; but yet let not this be counted all, that is either Uſefull or …
    With rule
    … be done in this kinde that may be deſired, and nothing that may advance InduſtrieIndustry neglected; but yet let not this be counted all, that is either Uſefull or …

    John Dury · A Seasonable Discourse · Open in the reader

A Voice Tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath A96785

  • Printed
    Which might by patient InduſtrieIndustry be had?
    With rule
    Which might by patient InduſtrieIndustry be had?

    George Wither · A Voice Tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath · p. 41 · Open in the reader