Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4438 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

occupyedoccupied

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

Puritas changed it: 356 times in 154 works
Consistency: 100% (356 of 356)
Reach if approved: ~375 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: ocupied
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 357 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (356 changes in 154 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 356)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… without false colours of cauteles doth vtter it in wordes playne / is moche better occupyedoccupied than euer were you yet. For that which you haue taught in the churche …
With rule
… without false colours of cauteles doth vtter it in wordes playne / is moche better occupyedoccupied than euer were you yet. For that which you haue taught in the churche …
John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · Open in the reader
Printed
… God ingraftynge grace in vs, maye geue occasyon vnto oure Rulars rather to bee occupyedoccupied in rewardynge of vertue, then in punysheyng of vyce: Yea that God be not …
With rule
… God ingraftynge grace in vs, maye geue occasyon vnto oure Rulars rather to bee occupyedoccupied in rewardynge of vertue, then in punysheyng of vyce: Yea that God be not …
Thomas Lever · A Fruitful Sermon · Open in the reader
Printed
… bodyes with fastinge, that the spirite myghte haue free course vnto God and bee occupyedoccupied aboute heauenlye thynges. After thys manner oughte all true Christians to do, that the …
With rule
… bodyes with fastinge, that the spirite myghte haue free course vnto God and bee occupyedoccupied aboute heauenlye thynges. After thys manner oughte all true Christians to do, that the …
Thomas Becon · A Fruitful Treatise · Open in the reader
Printed
… may make shipwrack: in cōtinual peril of Pirats, the diuel, the world & sin, ever occupyedoccupied, ether rowing or pumping, spycing or skayring, wynding or howing sayl, weying or letting …
With rule
… may make shipwrack: in cōtinual peril of Pirats, the diuel, the world & sin, ever occupyedoccupied, ether rowing or pumping, spycing or skayring, wynding or howing sayl, weying or letting …
James Melville · Fruitful and Comfortable Exhortation in Death · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
A. To make cleane my ſins, as the water being occupyedoccupied, maketh cleane the filthines of the body.
With rule
A. To make cleane my ſins, as the water being occupyedoccupied, maketh cleane the filthines of the body.
Theodore Beza · A Little Catechism · Open in the reader
Printed
… redowndeth to her shame, & to her husbands great hinderance, for whē the Mistresse is occupyedoccupied in vanity, the seruants care lesse for her profite, but looke to their own …
With rule
… redowndeth to her shame, & to her husbands great hinderance, for whē the Mistresse is occupyedoccupied in vanity, the seruants care lesse for her profite, but looke to their own …
Joseph Swetnam · The Arraignment of Lewd Women · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… can bee shewed, and therefore is nothing, but an ydle toye of an euill occupyedoccupied brayne.
With rule
… can bee shewed, and therefore is nothing, but an ydle toye of an euill occupyedoccupied brayne.
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 486 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which he had perfightly planted without masses. No presthode was lefte here to be occupyedoccupied in the christianyte, but clerely was it taken awaye to the ryght hande of …
With rule
… which he had perfightly planted without masses. No presthode was lefte here to be occupyedoccupied in the christianyte, but clerely was it taken awaye to the ryght hande of …
John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · p. cix · 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.