Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4540 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

afraydafraid

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

Puritas changed it: 518 times in 189 works
Consistency: 100% (518 of 518)
Reach if approved: ~544 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: afraid
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 518 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (518 changes in 189 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 518)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… this I made anſwere, that whereas yee doo imagine that all the learned are afraydafraid ye would be too hard for them, if they ſhould deale with yee, and …
With rule
… this I made anſwere, that whereas yee doo imagine that all the learned are afraydafraid ye would be too hard for them, if they ſhould deale with yee, and …
George Gifford · Short Reply to the Donatists · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reproving the Chriſtians ſaith, Ye obſerue dayes, and moneths, & times, and yeares: I am afraydafraid of you, leaſt I haue beſtowed upon you labour in vayne. Gal. 4, 10, 11. and 5, 1. &c.
With rule
… reproving the Chriſtians ſaith, Ye obſerue dayes, and moneths, & times, and yeares: I am afraydafraid of you, leaſt I haue beſtowed upon you labour in vayne. Gal. 4, 10, 11. and 5, 1. &c.
Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 299 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Christians, when the crosse cometh neare to them, and lyeth on them, are both afraydafraid thereof, and murmure vnder it.
With rule
… Christians, when the crosse cometh neare to them, and lyeth on them, are both afraydafraid thereof, and murmure vnder it.
David Lindsay · The Godly Mans Journey to Heaven · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
… The Lorde is the strength of my life, of whom then should I be afraydafraid: though an host of men were layde agaynst me, yet shall not my harte …
With rule
… The Lorde is the strength of my life, of whom then should I be afraydafraid: though an host of men were layde agaynst me, yet shall not my harte …
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the leaſt without riſing againe. If thou ſhalt lye downe thou ſhalt not be afraydafraid, but whileſt thou reſteſt, thy ſleepe ſhall be ſweet. So not onely abrode but …
With rule
… the leaſt without riſing againe. If thou ſhalt lye downe thou ſhalt not be afraydafraid, but whileſt thou reſteſt, thy ſleepe ſhall be ſweet. So not onely abrode but …
Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Thus saith the Lord, learne not the way of the heathen, and bee not afraydafraid for the signes of heauen, though the hethen be afraid of such: In like …
With rule
… Thus saith the Lord, learne not the way of the heathen, and bee not afraydafraid for the signes of heauen, though the hethen be afraid of such: In like …
William Perkins · Four Great Liars Striving · Open in the reader
Printed
… Loe the land is before yow, goe up and possess it: but they were afraydafraid and would not goe up, through their unbeleef. Then the Lord presently was wroth …
With rule
… Loe the land is before yow, goe up and possess it: but they were afraydafraid and would not goe up, through their unbeleef. Then the Lord presently was wroth …
Henry Ainsworth · Animadversion to Cliftons Advertisement · p. 87 · Open in the reader
Printed
… over hell, and death, and those things, that the very greatest of men are afraydafraid off; as who feares death most? and hell most? those that deserve it most …
With rule
… over hell, and death, and those things, that the very greatest of men are afraydafraid off; as who feares death most? and hell most? those that deserve it most …
Richard Sibbes · Christs Exaltation Purchased by Humiliation · p. 148 · 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.