Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4426 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dropsiedropsy

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

Puritas changed it: 538 times in 345 works
Consistency: 100% (538 of 538)
Reach if approved: ~565 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: dropsy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 538 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (538 changes in 345 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 538)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the world, he will desire more. A very vnnaturall desire is this (as the dropsiedropsy in desiring drinke) when the desire proceeds from fulnes, for a man should desire …
With rule
… the world, he will desire more. A very vnnaturall desire is this (as the dropsiedropsy in desiring drinke) when the desire proceeds from fulnes, for a man should desire …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 643 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but in the profeſſors of the truth: where appeareth ſo generall and great a dropſiedropsy of getting, by right or wrong: ſuch oppreſſion and crueltie in all eſtates: ſuch …
With rule
… but in the profeſſors of the truth: where appeareth ſo generall and great a dropſiedropsy of getting, by right or wrong: ſuch oppreſſion and crueltie in all eſtates: ſuch …
Robert Horne · Life and Death · Open in the reader
Printed
Couetousnesse, that driry dropsiedropsy, the more it hath the more it would haue, and whom will not this …
With rule
Couetousnesse, that driry dropsiedropsy, the more it hath the more it would haue, and whom will not this …
William Loe · A Still Voice · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… pronener to the offence done, or to any other sinne. For looke as the dropsiedropsy man, the more he drinks, the drier he is, and the more he still …
With rule
… pronener to the offence done, or to any other sinne. For looke as the dropsiedropsy man, the more he drinks, the drier he is, and the more he still …
William Perkins · Cases of Conscience Part 1 · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… man willingly part with drosse for gold? A man that is recovered of a dropsiedropsy, what if a necessitie be laid upon him to abstaine from excesse in drinking …
With rule
… man willingly part with drosse for gold? A man that is recovered of a dropsiedropsy, what if a necessitie be laid upon him to abstaine from excesse in drinking …
John Preston · Sins Overthrow · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is giuen to couetouſneſſe; Prieſts, and Prophets, Princes, and People ſwolne with this incurable DropſieDropsy: and inſatiable thirſt after the things of this life.
With rule
… is giuen to couetouſneſſe; Prieſts, and Prophets, Princes, and People ſwolne with this incurable DropſieDropsy: and inſatiable thirſt after the things of this life.
William Sclater · A Key to the Key of Scripture · p. 148 · Open in the reader
Printed
… groweth ſtrong and violent. The couetous man reſembleth them that are ſicke of the dropſiedropsy, who by drinking are neuer ſatisfied, but ſtill encreaſe in thirſt. His hart is …
With rule
… groweth ſtrong and violent. The couetous man reſembleth them that are ſicke of the dropſiedropsy, who by drinking are neuer ſatisfied, but ſtill encreaſe in thirſt. His hart is …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 152 · Open in the reader
Printed
… least wrong. Is it giuen to drunkennesse? you may melt his body into a dropsiedropsy; before his heart into sobrietie. Is it ambitious? you may as well treat with …
With rule
… least wrong. Is it giuen to drunkennesse? you may melt his body into a dropsiedropsy; before his heart into sobrietie. Is it ambitious? you may as well treat with …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 15 · 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.