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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4434 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lazielazy

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

Puritas changed it
590 times in 365 works
Consistency
97.0% (590 of 608)
Reach if approved
~641 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: lazy
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
610 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (590 changes in 365 works, 97.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 590)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … which ſtayes it ſelfe up upon its owne abilities, and ſo growes idle, and lazielazy, and ſecure; if it be a Miniſter, or Magiſtrate, this makes cleane worke for …
    With rule
    … which ſtayes it ſelfe up upon its owne abilities, and ſo growes idle, and lazielazy, and ſecure; if it be a Miniſter, or Magiſtrate, this makes cleane worke for …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Exaltation · p. 45 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … and the liues of their Saints, were forged by the idle ſpi…its of lazielazy Monkes, to no other end but to authorize the Pope and his doctrine againſt …
    With rule
    … and the liues of their Saints, were forged by the idle ſpi…its of lazielazy Monkes, to no other end but to authorize the Pope and his doctrine againſt …

    Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſhort: the art of weldoing is long: the worke is great: the labourers are lazielazy: the Maſter is at hand: It remaineth that wee vſe the world as though …
    With rule
    … ſhort: the art of weldoing is long: the worke is great: the labourers are lazielazy: the Maſter is at hand: It remaineth that wee vſe the world as though …

    Elnathan Parr · Abba Father · p. 114 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … are sure to finde. Which when they feele to be too heauie for their lazielazy shoulders to beare with ease, they foully fall to plaine carelesnesse, and neglect all …
    With rule
    … are sure to finde. Which when they feele to be too heauie for their lazielazy shoulders to beare with ease, they foully fall to plaine carelesnesse, and neglect all …

    William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 176 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … was there euer any true regenerate Saint of God on earth that grew idle, lazielazy, and secure, because he was sure not to fall srom grace? Who more certaine …
    With rule
    … was there euer any true regenerate Saint of God on earth that grew idle, lazielazy, and secure, because he was sure not to fall srom grace? Who more certaine …

    William Prynne · The Perpetuity of a Regenerate Mans Estate · p. 399 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … that this were well weighed! then ſhould we not haue ſuch a number of lazielazy Chriſtians, as now we haue: let it bee conſidered, and let his knowledge ſupport …
    With rule
    … that this were well weighed! then ſhould we not haue ſuch a number of lazielazy Chriſtians, as now we haue: let it bee conſidered, and let his knowledge ſupport …

    Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · p. 152 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … his flight: It seemeth his name was drowned with him. 5 RAGAITHUS his …r. a lazielazy voluptuous glutton. ☉ 1 ELPIS, or ALPHIX. 1 1290 3 8 M. 9. 18 5 7 Ptolemais besieged; 6 How-ever, one HUGH challengeth both …
    With rule
    … his flight: It seemeth his name was drowned with him. 5 RAGAITHUS his …r. a lazielazy voluptuous glutton. ☉ 1 ELPIS, or ALPHIX. 1 1290 3 8 M. 9. 18 5 7 Ptolemais besieged; 6 How-ever, one HUGH challengeth both …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … had but neede to diet the beſt of vs ſometimes, becauſe we be ſo lazielazy when we are full, much like to a man that comes newly from a …
    With rule
    … had but neede to diet the beſt of vs ſometimes, becauſe we be ſo lazielazy when we are full, much like to a man that comes newly from a …

    Robert Harris · Absoloms Funeral · p. 1 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (18)

8 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 10 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

  • Printed
    … other body intice me to naughtinesse, or make me cold in goodnesse: I am LazieLazy and colde ynough of my selfe, vntill God doe heate mee and strengthen mee …
    With rule
    … other body intice me to naughtinesse, or make me cold in goodnesse: I am LazieLazy and colde ynough of my selfe, vntill God doe heate mee and strengthen mee …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 722 · Open in the reader

A Humble Acknowledgment of the Sins of the Ministry of Scotland A42356

  • Printed
    1. LAzieLazy and negligent in Catechising.
    With rule
    1. LAzieLazy and negligent in Catechising.

    James Guthrie · A Humble Acknowledgment of the Sins of the Ministry of Scotland · p. 84 · Open in the reader

George Fox Digged Out of His Burrows A66448

  • Printed
    … of mind of God in the place. Oh what a black, deaf and dumb, LazieLazy Spirit hath possessed the Souls of these great pretenders too and Monopolizers of the …
    With rule
    … of mind of God in the place. Oh what a black, deaf and dumb, LazieLazy Spirit hath possessed the Souls of these great pretenders too and Monopolizers of the …

    Roger Williams · George Fox Digged Out of His Burrows · p. 201 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … I never knew any of the Foxian Spirits so inclind, but according to the LazieLazy fool under the Fig-Tree which I have seen in an Embleme almost threescore …
    With rule
    … I never knew any of the Foxian Spirits so inclind, but according to the LazieLazy fool under the Fig-Tree which I have seen in an Embleme almost threescore …

    Roger Williams · George Fox Digged Out of His Burrows · p. 388 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    For LazieLazy will not let me rise.
    With rule
    For LazieLazy will not let me rise.

    Roger Williams · George Fox Digged Out of His Burrows · p. 388 · Open in the reader

The Fast Friend A91943

  • Printed
    Doct. True Love is not LazieLazy. It is content to abridge it ſe…fe, of its own eaſe, and liberty …
    With rule
    Doct. True Love is not LazieLazy. It is content to abridge it ſe…fe, of its own eaſe, and liberty …

    Nehemiah Rogers · The Fast Friend · p. 121 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … it is that Love and Labour are joyned together, 1 Theſ. 1.3. Heb. 6.10, ſhe is no LazieLazy Daughter, of ſo painfull and laborious a Mother.
    With rule
    … it is that Love and Labour are joyned together, 1 Theſ. 1.3. Heb. 6.10, ſhe is no LazieLazy Daughter, of ſo painfull and laborious a Mother.

    Nehemiah Rogers · The Fast Friend · p. 125 · Open in the reader

The Unsearchable Riches of Christ B02840

  • Printed
    … to you that are Ignorant, to you that are Hypocrits, to you that are LazieLazy and Luk-warm, to the Civil and to the Prophane; We pray, We beſeech …
    With rule
    … to you that are Ignorant, to you that are Hypocrits, to you that are LazieLazy and Luk-warm, to the Civil and to the Prophane; We pray, We beſeech …

    James Durham · The Unsearchable Riches of Christ · p. 57 · Open in the reader