Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4378 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

poyntedpointed

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

Puritas changed it: 149 times in 110 works
Consistency: 100% (149 of 149)
Reach if approved: ~157 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pointed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 149 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (149 changes in 110 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 149)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… woman hath neither her owne complexion nor proportion: for she is both painted, and poyntedpointed together. She sits moderator euery morning to a disputatiō betwixt the combe and the …
With rule
… woman hath neither her owne complexion nor proportion: for she is both painted, and poyntedpointed together. She sits moderator euery morning to a disputatiō betwixt the combe and the …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and baſe familiaritie of thy pot-companions; and rather endure to be hated, reuiled, poyntedpointed at, ieſted vpon by them, then ſtill to aſſociate them in that foule & enormious …
With rule
… and baſe familiaritie of thy pot-companions; and rather endure to be hated, reuiled, poyntedpointed at, ieſted vpon by them, then ſtill to aſſociate them in that foule & enormious …
Thomas Barnes · The Gales of Grace · p. 155 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a dayes, and become past all shame, so lytle ponyshment also is there ap poyntedpointed for this fylthy abhominacion? I would whoredome were not growne vp into suche boldnes …
With rule
… a dayes, and become past all shame, so lytle ponyshment also is there ap poyntedpointed for this fylthy abhominacion? I would whoredome were not growne vp into suche boldnes …
Thomas Becon · The New Policy of War · Open in the reader
Printed
… recordes, euen from the Apoſtles themſelues (who haue as it were with their finger poyntedpointed oute this wicked one, and all his falſe Church) that then we ſhall find …
With rule
… recordes, euen from the Apoſtles themſelues (who haue as it were with their finger poyntedpointed oute this wicked one, and all his falſe Church) that then we ſhall find …
Theodore Beza · The True and Visible Marks of the Catholic Church · Open in the reader
Printed
… which began to builde and coulde not set vp the roofe, the passingers by poyntedpointed with their fingers and saide, this man began a foundation, but hee could not …
With rule
… which began to builde and coulde not set vp the roofe, the passingers by poyntedpointed with their fingers and saide, this man began a foundation, but hee could not …
Henry Smith · Jacobs Ladder · Open in the reader
Printed
… the child with the next money that he gitteth byeth hym ſelf a ſharp poyntedpointed knyfe / & weareth it / the father blameth the childe for breakyng of hys commandment the …
With rule
… the child with the next money that he gitteth byeth hym ſelf a ſharp poyntedpointed knyfe / & weareth it / the father blameth the childe for breakyng of hys commandment the …
William Turner · The Rescuing of the Romish Fox · Open in the reader
Printed
… spread the name of him, as of a most infamous person. He might be poyntedpointed at with the finger, by children and vile folkes, as he went in the …
With rule
… spread the name of him, as of a most infamous person. He might be poyntedpointed at with the finger, by children and vile folkes, as he went in the …
Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 264 · Open in the reader
Printed
… death, whereby the Couenant of grace was ratified: onely circumcision, and the Paschall Lambe poyntedpointed out Christ to come, and Baptisme and the Lords Supper point him out already …
With rule
… death, whereby the Couenant of grace was ratified: onely circumcision, and the Paschall Lambe poyntedpointed out Christ to come, and Baptisme and the Lords Supper point him out already …
Henry Burton · Grounds of Christian Religion · p. 19 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.