Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4392 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

destroieddestroyed

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

Puritas changed it: 1,083 times in 397 works
Consistency: 99.7% (1,083 of 1,086)
Reach if approved: ~1,141 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: destroyed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,086 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,083 changes in 397 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,083)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the thing sacrificed or the Hoast: and not bread, but this Hoast is really destroieddestroyed, when the Priest eateth it: then how scapeth Christ from being then destroieddestroyed? or …
With rule
… the thing sacrificed or the Hoast: and not bread, but this Hoast is really destroieddestroyed, when the Priest eateth it: then how scapeth Christ from being then destroieddestroyed? or …
Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 221 · Open in the reader
Printed
The question thus stated, Formalists deny, we affirme. Their negative Sect. 8 is destroieddestroyed, and our affirmative confirmed by these reasons.
With rule
The question thus stated, Formalists deny, we affirme. Their negative Sect. 8 is destroieddestroyed, and our affirmative confirmed by these reasons.
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… weeping daily for their sinnes: and so he was neither infected by them, nor destroieddestroyed with them. 2. A man shall neuer be able to pray for others, or to …
With rule
… weeping daily for their sinnes: and so he was neither infected by them, nor destroieddestroyed with them. 2. A man shall neuer be able to pray for others, or to …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Falſhood which the Father of lies, hath begotten in vs might be vtterly deſtroieddestroyed. Well then, that we may profit by the handling of this point. I will …
With rule
… of Falſhood which the Father of lies, hath begotten in vs might be vtterly deſtroieddestroyed. Well then, that we may profit by the handling of this point. I will …
Samuel Hieron · Truths Purchase · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… at this day for ſpoile and couetouſnes ſake: in ſo much that they haue destroieddestroyed the world, and haue annihilated the ſtate of the empire, and of all the …
With rule
… at this day for ſpoile and couetouſnes ſake: in ſo much that they haue destroieddestroyed the world, and haue annihilated the ſtate of the empire, and of all the …
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 109 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whose tongue thou canste not vnderstand, thy strong wales, wherin thou trusted, shall be destroieddestroyed &c.
With rule
… whose tongue thou canste not vnderstand, thy strong wales, wherin thou trusted, shall be destroieddestroyed &c.
John Knox · Appellation from the Cruel and Unjust Sentence Against Him · Open in the reader
Printed
… him and death to deuoure him, he aboliſhed the law, he condemned ſinne, he deſtroieddestroyed death, he iuſtified and ſaued me. So is Chriſt the poiſon of the law …
With rule
… him and death to deuoure him, he aboliſhed the law, he condemned ſinne, he deſtroieddestroyed death, he iuſtified and ſaued me. So is Chriſt the poiſon of the law …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Galatians · Open in the reader
Printed
… to petye hys Prophets and to prouyde for them: whyche when diuilishe Quene Iesabel destroieddestroyed the Prophetes of God, toke an hū dred of them, and hyd them, fyfti …
With rule
… to petye hys Prophets and to prouyde for them: whyche when diuilishe Quene Iesabel destroieddestroyed the Prophetes of God, toke an hū dred of them, and hyd them, fyfti …
Thomas Becon · The Fortress of the Faithful Against the Cruel Assaults of Poverty and Hunger · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 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.

Twenty-One Sermons on Amos 1 A68508

Printed
DeſtroiedDestroyed. ibid.
With rule
DeſtroiedDestroyed. ibid.
Sebastian Benefield · Twenty-One Sermons on Amos 1 · Open in the reader

Commentary on the Pentateuch A94797

Printed
Ver. 9. Shall bee cut off] i.e. DeſtroiedDestroyed, not excommunicated onely, as ſom do ſenſ it.
With rule
Ver. 9. Shall bee cut off] i.e. DeſtroiedDestroyed, not excommunicated onely, as ſom do ſenſ it.
John Trapp · Commentary on the Pentateuch · p. 146 · Open in the reader

Twenty-One Sermons on Amos 2 B11412

Printed
DestroiedDestroyed. ibid
With rule
DestroiedDestroyed. ibid
Sebastian Benefield · Twenty-One Sermons on Amos 2 · Open in the reader