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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4477 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

raysingraising

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

Puritas changed it
485 times in 276 works
Consistency
97.3% (485 of 498)
Reach if approved
~523 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: raising
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
498 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (485 changes in 276 works, 97.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 485)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … to meet with the enemy in his own cunning, in feigning a regreſſe, or rayſingraising of the ſiege, for that (as I ſhewed) is a ſpeciall Stratagem in oppugnation …
    With rule
    … to meet with the enemy in his own cunning, in feigning a regreſſe, or rayſingraising of the ſiege, for that (as I ſhewed) is a ſpeciall Stratagem in oppugnation …

    Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 154 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … hereſies, religions, ſuperſtitions and rudiments of this world whatſoeuer: by eaſt and by weſt, rayſingraising vp wars, ſeditions and all maner of vilaines, to put downe the glorious and …
    With rule
    … hereſies, religions, ſuperſtitions and rudiments of this world whatſoeuer: by eaſt and by weſt, rayſingraising vp wars, ſeditions and all maner of vilaines, to put downe the glorious and …

    Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 199 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … efficacie of his death, killing sinne in vs, and the vertue of his resurrection, raysingraising vs vp to newnes of life: he that hath only a shew of religion …
    With rule
    … efficacie of his death, killing sinne in vs, and the vertue of his resurrection, raysingraising vs vp to newnes of life: he that hath only a shew of religion …

    William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 312 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … not easily part from that which was once its owne, but will bee ever raysingraising sutes, disputing, arguing, wrangling with the Conscience for its old right; Christ came not …
    With rule
    … not easily part from that which was once its owne, but will bee ever raysingraising sutes, disputing, arguing, wrangling with the Conscience for its old right; Christ came not …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 279 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Grace is the rectifying of the naturall affection, and the elevating, and raysingraising it up to a higher object then nature can pitch on. The Spirit of …
    With rule
    Grace is the rectifying of the naturall affection, and the elevating, and raysingraising it up to a higher object then nature can pitch on. The Spirit of …

    Richard Sibbes · A Glance of Heaven · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … before the dayes of KING EDWARD? VVhat did your Men meane, by the barbarous raysingraising of IOHN WICKLEFE, and his Disciples Bones, some Ages before that?
    With rule
    … before the dayes of KING EDWARD? VVhat did your Men meane, by the barbarous raysingraising of IOHN WICKLEFE, and his Disciples Bones, some Ages before that?

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 145 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … sale, all honour on one, and scarce Retaliating out any respect to the other, raysingraising high Rampires to the prayse of the one, by digging deepe Ditches to discredit …
    With rule
    … sale, all honour on one, and scarce Retaliating out any respect to the other, raysingraising high Rampires to the prayse of the one, by digging deepe Ditches to discredit …

    Thomas Fuller · Josephs Party-Colored Coat · p. 180 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Pope I meane) hath incited and encouraged home-borne ſubiects to become rebells, in rayſingraising men, and carrying armes againſt their rightfull Queene; and to become bloudy traytors in …
    With rule
    … Pope I meane) hath incited and encouraged home-borne ſubiects to become rebells, in rayſingraising men, and carrying armes againſt their rightfull Queene; and to become bloudy traytors in …

    Francis Hastings · A Watch-Word to All Religious and True Hearted Englishmen · p. 65 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Concerning the Doctrine of Faith and of the Law A02604

  • Printed
    … man from death to lyfe. How he dranke poyson, and it hurt him not: RaysingRaising also two to lyfe that were dead, by drinking the same before. These and …
    With rule
    … man from death to lyfe. How he dranke poyson, and it hurt him not: RaysingRaising also two to lyfe that were dead, by drinking the same before. These and …

    Patrick Hamilton · Concerning the Doctrine of Faith and of the Law · Open in the reader

A Necessity of Separation from the Church of England A17912

  • Printed
    … thinke vpon, of purpoſe to make our perſons and profeſsion odious to all men. 2. RayſingRaising up many manifeſt lies & untruths , & gathering together the faylings of ſome particular perſons, which …
    With rule
    … thinke vpon, of purpoſe to make our perſons and profeſsion odious to all men. 2. RayſingRaising up many manifeſt lies & untruths , & gathering together the faylings of ſome particular perſons, which …

    John Canne · A Necessity of Separation from the Church of England · Open in the reader

The Christians Daily Sacrifice A19284

  • Printed
    4 RaysingRaising vp our flesh from the graue. 1. Cor. 15.
    With rule
    4 RaysingRaising vp our flesh from the graue. 1. Cor. 15.

    Thomas Cooper · The Christians Daily Sacrifice · p. 7 · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms A56211

  • Printed
    … or armed in the Kings presence at the Parliament, or Councell, or else where. RaysingRaising of people, or exciting the people to rise forcibly against the peace by letters …
    With rule
    … or armed in the Kings presence at the Parliament, or Councell, or else where. RaysingRaising of people, or exciting the people to rise forcibly against the peace by letters …

    William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 38 · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms Part 3 A91298

  • Printed
    … or armed in the Kings preſence at the Parliament, or Councell, or elſe where. RayſingRaising of people, or exciting the people to riſe forcibly againſt the peace by letters …
    With rule
    … or armed in the Kings preſence at the Parliament, or Councell, or elſe where. RayſingRaising of people, or exciting the people to riſe forcibly againſt the peace by letters …

    William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms Part 3 · p. 38 · Open in the reader

The Figless Fig Tree A91944

  • Printed
    The other ſcruple that ariſeth in the minds of men, concerns the RayſingRaising of this maintenance, How, and which way it may be moſt fittingly effected? That …
    With rule
    The other ſcruple that ariſeth in the minds of men, concerns the RayſingRaising of this maintenance, How, and which way it may be moſt fittingly effected? That …

    Nehemiah Rogers · The Figless Fig Tree · p. 395 · Open in the reader