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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4413 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

waytedwaited

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

Puritas changed it
218 times in 128 works
Consistency
100% (218 of 218)
Reach if approved
~229 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: waited
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
218 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (218 changes in 128 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 218)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … from the great paines and sorrowes which he vnderwent to come to thee: he waytedwaited when it will once be, that for thine owne good thou wilt open vnto …
    With rule
    … from the great paines and sorrowes which he vnderwent to come to thee: he waytedwaited when it will once be, that for thine owne good thou wilt open vnto …

    Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 509 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … so forth) wolde sle… hym selfe with a thowsande deathes, if he were not waytedwaited opon and kept therfroe. Euen so we, if we shoulde lyue this thousand yeares …
    With rule
    … so forth) wolde sle… hym selfe with a thowsande deathes, if he were not waytedwaited opon and kept therfroe. Euen so we, if we shoulde lyue this thousand yeares …

    William Tyndale · The Parable of the Wicked Mammon · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    And, is for ever, waytedwaited on by Death:
    With rule
    And, is for ever, waytedwaited on by Death:

    George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 45 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Zacharias tarrying, is firſt ſet out, by that the people waytedwaited.
    With rule
    Zacharias tarrying, is firſt ſet out, by that the people waytedwaited.

    George Estey · Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture · p. 136 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … triumphe ouer Hell, Deathe, and damnation, through the merites of Christ apprehended by faith, waytedwaited for in hope, Rom. 8. Secondly, that because we were sonnes by election, he giveth …
    With rule
    … triumphe ouer Hell, Deathe, and damnation, through the merites of Christ apprehended by faith, waytedwaited for in hope, Rom. 8. Secondly, that because we were sonnes by election, he giveth …

    John Greenwood · More Work for Priests · p. 104 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … No, but he did it vpon good and iuſt grounds, knowing the happineſſe that waytedwaited for him, and which waiteth for all that haue his thirſt to bee with …
    With rule
    … No, but he did it vpon good and iuſt grounds, knowing the happineſſe that waytedwaited for him, and which waiteth for all that haue his thirſt to bee with …

    Robert Horne · Of the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 58 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … of the everlasting life, after the which there is no life more to be waytedwaited for, for the same life continueth for evermore. Therfore in the conclusion of his …
    With rule
    … of the everlasting life, after the which there is no life more to be waytedwaited for, for the same life continueth for evermore. Therfore in the conclusion of his …

    Henry Ainsworth · An Epistle Unto Two Daughters of Warwick · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … And therefore they receiued not their whole commission of Christ at this time: they waytedwaited for a part of it.
    With rule
    … And therefore they receiued not their whole commission of Christ at this time: they waytedwaited for a part of it.

    John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 123 · 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.