Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4343 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wearieweary

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

Puritas changed it: 1,623 times in 593 works
Consistency: 99.6% (1,623 of 1,629)
Reach if approved: ~1,712 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: weary
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,629 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,623 changes in 593 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,623)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… men can toile and moile all the weeke long; and yet are they not wearieweary; they thinke not the whole weeke long enough neither: But for the heauenly Gaine …
With rule
… men can toile and moile all the weeke long; and yet are they not wearieweary; they thinke not the whole weeke long enough neither: But for the heauenly Gaine …
Thomas Gataker · True Contentment in the Gain of Godliness · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſimplicitie, integritie, vprightnes, ſinceritie, or ſome dealing, ſuch an one was Iaacob. Eſau came wearieweary out of the fielde, and Iaakob had made pottage, and he requeſted that he …
With rule
… ſimplicitie, integritie, vprightnes, ſinceritie, or ſome dealing, ſuch an one was Iaacob. Eſau came wearieweary out of the fielde, and Iaakob had made pottage, and he requeſted that he …
George Gifford · Four Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… Christ came to saue that which was lost, and to refresh all that are wearieweary and heauie laden? Thus the man of God saith, portiō 8. 1. O Lord, thou art …
With rule
… Christ came to saue that which was lost, and to refresh all that are wearieweary and heauie laden? Thus the man of God saith, portiō 8. 1. O Lord, thou art …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 490 · Open in the reader
Printed
… heart (hath opportunities more then any, for the exerciſing of mercy; be not yee wearieweary of this well doing, the World (I know) is importunate in Compariſons, and impudent …
With rule
… heart (hath opportunities more then any, for the exerciſing of mercy; be not yee wearieweary of this well doing, the World (I know) is importunate in Compariſons, and impudent …
Robert Harris · Gods Goodness and Mercy Laid Open · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as the riſing of Riuers? their great heate is ſoone aſſwaged, they are quickly wearieweary of that ſeruice, which they ſeemed to vndertake with a great deale of feruency …
With rule
… as the riſing of Riuers? their great heate is ſoone aſſwaged, they are quickly wearieweary of that ſeruice, which they ſeemed to vndertake with a great deale of feruency …
Samuel Hieron · The Doctrines Trial · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue the practises so many so bloudie following since beene euer able to make wearieweary. Nor can we say in this case so iustly, that Aaron and Hur the …
With rule
… haue the practises so many so bloudie following since beene euer able to make wearieweary. Nor can we say in this case so iustly, that Aaron and Hur the …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 202 · Open in the reader
Printed
Secondly, they ſerue not the ende of recreations, which is to refreſh the wearieweary, but not to make men delight in ſinne.
With rule
Secondly, they ſerue not the ende of recreations, which is to refreſh the wearieweary, but not to make men delight in ſinne.
Dudley Fenner · Treatise of Lawful and Unlawful Recreations · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
The young man (when hee had made the Tormentors wearieweary with racking, and yet would confeſſe none) at laſte was had to Maulbers place …
With rule
The young man (when hee had made the Tormentors wearieweary with racking, and yet would confeſſe none) at laſte was had to Maulbers place …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 454 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Two Treatises A21041

Printed
WearieWeary of him? No: faine would I haue retayned Anſw. him, that he might haue …
With rule
WearieWeary of him? No: faine would I haue retayned Anſw. him, that he might haue …
Daniel Dyke · Two Treatises · p. 214 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

Printed
WearieWeary]
With rule
WearieWeary]
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 615 · Open in the reader
Printed
WearieWeary]
With rule
WearieWeary]
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 615 · Open in the reader
Printed
WearieWeary of my life, Job 10. 1. or cut off while I live, marg.
With rule
WearieWeary of my life, Job 10. 1. or cut off while I live, marg.
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 615 · Open in the reader