Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4362 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

scarcitiescarcity

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

Puritas changed it: 257 times in 169 works
Consistency: 99.6% (257 of 258)
Reach if approved: ~271 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: scarcity
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 258 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (257 changes in 169 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 257)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſinnes, by with-holding from them the fruites of Nature, and pinching them with ſcarcitiescarcity, in ſtead of abundance. And that is often fulfilled, which the Pſalmiſt ſingeth; A …
With rule
… ſinnes, by with-holding from them the fruites of Nature, and pinching them with ſcarcitiescarcity, in ſtead of abundance. And that is often fulfilled, which the Pſalmiſt ſingeth; A …
William Whately · A Care Cloth · p. 211 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not a Tenth, yet let there bee some gleanings; and that is a woefull scarcitiescarcity: if the gleanings bee not allowed, yet let there bee heere and there a …
With rule
… not a Tenth, yet let there bee some gleanings; and that is a woefull scarcitiescarcity: if the gleanings bee not allowed, yet let there bee heere and there a …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Gilead &c, At home, howſoeuer the Lord hath beene gracious to vs in the ſcarcitiescarcity, yet we may in moſt places, take vp the Prophets words in another ſence …
With rule
… Gilead &c, At home, howſoeuer the Lord hath beene gracious to vs in the ſcarcitiescarcity, yet we may in moſt places, take vp the Prophets words in another ſence …
Robert Harris · Peters Enlargement · Open in the reader
Printed
… that he might borow an example among them well inough. For there was much scarcitiescarcity of good iudges. I did excuse the widdowe also, for comming to the Judge …
With rule
… that he might borow an example among them well inough. For there was much scarcitiescarcity of good iudges. I did excuse the widdowe also, for comming to the Judge …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… helping hands to ſupport the poore, and needy in all times of dearth and ſcarcitiescarcity. Let them take good Nehemiah for a patterne, hee tooke the calamities and grievances …
With rule
… helping hands to ſupport the poore, and needy in all times of dearth and ſcarcitiescarcity. Let them take good Nehemiah for a patterne, hee tooke the calamities and grievances …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 263 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Chriſt, to turne ſtones into bread, and ſo make a plentie in time of ſcarcitiescarcity: but theſe endeuoured, what in them lay, to make a ſcarcitiescarcity in the midſt …
With rule
… Chriſt, to turne ſtones into bread, and ſo make a plentie in time of ſcarcitiescarcity: but theſe endeuoured, what in them lay, to make a ſcarcitiescarcity in the midſt …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Wild Vine · p. 311 · Open in the reader
Printed
… greater part inclined to the latter iudgement yet becauſe there was not ſo great ſcarcitiescarcity of the things queſtioned, as then the controuerſie reſted to bee determined by further …
With rule
… greater part inclined to the latter iudgement yet becauſe there was not ſo great ſcarcitiescarcity of the things queſtioned, as then the controuerſie reſted to bee determined by further …
John Sprint · Showing the Necessity of Conformity · p. 161 · Open in the reader
Printed
… uncharitablenesse to his neighbours or brethren, either in time of plenty, or time of scarcitiescarcity. You doe him the greater wrong, to charge him, with sucking in cruelty as …
With rule
… uncharitablenesse to his neighbours or brethren, either in time of plenty, or time of scarcitiescarcity. You doe him the greater wrong, to charge him, with sucking in cruelty as …
William Twisse · Discovery of Jacksons Vanity · p. 428 · 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.

Exposition of Proverbs 11-12 A20547

Printed
… the multitude of the people, doth intend in this caſe ſome grieuance among them. ScarcitieScarcity of foode is one of the moſt grieuous iudgements wherewith the Lord is wont …
With rule
… the multitude of the people, doth intend in this caſe ſome grieuance among them. ScarcitieScarcity of foode is one of the moſt grieuous iudgements wherewith the Lord is wont …
John Dod · Exposition of Proverbs 11-12 · p. 90 · Open in the reader