Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4433 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

laitielaity

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

Puritas changed it: 329 times in 160 works
Consistency: 100% (329 of 329)
Reach if approved: ~346 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: laity
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 329 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (329 changes in 160 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 329)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… cleane. There was a third, proper only to the Prieſts and Leuites, whither the LaitieLaity might not come: thus farre they might bring their offerings, but further they might …
With rule
… cleane. There was a third, proper only to the Prieſts and Leuites, whither the LaitieLaity might not come: thus farre they might bring their offerings, but further they might …
Thomas Adams · The Temple · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… doe not they, I ſay, diuide Chriſt, whileſt they denie the Cup to the LaitieLaity? and propound him, in the Sacrament, to their faith, not as hee dyed, his …
With rule
… doe not they, I ſay, diuide Chriſt, whileſt they denie the Cup to the LaitieLaity? and propound him, in the Sacrament, to their faith, not as hee dyed, his …
Robert Jenison · The Christians Apparelling · p. 392 · Open in the reader
Printed
… so profitable as naught is wanting therein to make 5 absolute, perhaps the people or laitielaity in whom so great …urniture of knowledge is not required; not those only, but …
With rule
… so profitable as naught is wanting therein to make 5 absolute, perhaps the people or laitielaity in whom so great …urniture of knowledge is not required; not those only, but …
Robert Mandevill · Timothys Task · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… congregations. Some hold that this Preſbiterie doth by diuine authoritie conſiſt of Cleargie and LaitieLaity: others denie vtterly lay Elders, and that all Elders in the new Teſtament are …
With rule
… congregations. Some hold that this Preſbiterie doth by diuine authoritie conſiſt of Cleargie and LaitieLaity: others denie vtterly lay Elders, and that all Elders in the new Teſtament are …
Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · p. 215 · Open in the reader
Printed
… discharged their subiectes of their allegiance and oth; and set both his clergie and laitielaity vpon them; neither left them til he h…d vanqui…ht them, what with …
With rule
… discharged their subiectes of their allegiance and oth; and set both his clergie and laitielaity vpon them; neither left them til he h…d vanqui…ht them, what with …
John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 376 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Pope is reſembled to the Woulfe, the Cleargy to the Foxe, and the LaitieLaity to the poore Aſſe. In the yeare one thouſand three hundred and fifty, Gerrhardus …
With rule
… the Pope is reſembled to the Woulfe, the Cleargy to the Foxe, and the LaitieLaity to the poore Aſſe. In the yeare one thouſand three hundred and fifty, Gerrhardus …
Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ephesus decreed, that the Communion should be giuen in one kind onely to the LaitieLaity, in opposition to the heresie of Nestorius, who held, that vnder the bread in …
With rule
… Ephesus decreed, that the Communion should be giuen in one kind onely to the LaitieLaity, in opposition to the heresie of Nestorius, who held, that vnder the bread in …
Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 220 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to the Grecian Emperour; and resigneth Cilicia to him. 1 RODULPHUS chosen Patriarch by the LaitieLaity. 1 7 34 2 ELHAPHIT, S. In the 20 yeare of his reigne he was killed by one Nosradine …
With rule
… to the Grecian Emperour; and resigneth Cilicia to him. 1 RODULPHUS chosen Patriarch by the LaitieLaity. 1 7 34 2 ELHAPHIT, S. In the 20 yeare of his reigne he was killed by one Nosradine …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · 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.