Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4543 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

attyreattire

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

Puritas changed it: 194 times in 103 works
Consistency: 95.1% (194 of 204)
Reach if approved: ~214 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: attire
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 204 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (194 changes in 103 works, 95.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 194)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… by ſuch couerture of her head. And the man, by not wearing any ſuch attyreattire vppon his head, as is proper to womankinde, but by wante of any ſuch …
With rule
… by ſuch couerture of her head. And the man, by not wearing any ſuch attyreattire vppon his head, as is proper to womankinde, but by wante of any ſuch …
Walter Travers · Defense of the Ecclesiastical Discipline · p. 122 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and what bee the order and chiefe ornaments of that Palace, what bee the attyreattire of these y^t follow the Lambe, & what be the forme of their feasting at …
With rule
… and what bee the order and chiefe ornaments of that Palace, what bee the attyreattire of these y^t follow the Lambe, & what be the forme of their feasting at …
Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 838 · Open in the reader
Printed
… doe, who rob the Spowse of her Iewels, and put upon her the cast attyreattire of the whore.
With rule
… doe, who rob the Spowse of her Iewels, and put upon her the cast attyreattire of the whore.
Henry Burton · For God and the King · p. 162 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of your Maiſters: who now can know the Maiſter from the Seruant by his attyreattire? it hath not been thus in times paſt, neither ought now ſo to be …
With rule
… of your Maiſters: who now can know the Maiſter from the Seruant by his attyreattire? it hath not been thus in times paſt, neither ought now ſo to be …
Thomas Carter · Christian Commonwealth · p. 268 · Open in the reader
Printed
… had their ſackcloth and aſhes, to ſignifie that they were not worthie of any attyreattire, and that they were but aſhes. This alſo was ment by rending their coates …
With rule
… had their ſackcloth and aſhes, to ſignifie that they were not worthie of any attyreattire, and that they were but aſhes. This alſo was ment by rending their coates …
Henry Holland · The Christian Exercise of Fasting · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God whose Priest he is: for I sawe him (sayd he) in the same attyreattire, when I was yet in Macedony; and when I doubted whether I might meddle …
With rule
… God whose Priest he is: for I sawe him (sayd he) in the same attyreattire, when I was yet in Macedony; and when I doubted whether I might meddle …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 373 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in soule & body: It is the common blind opinion of the world, that forraigne attyreattire and rich Iewels do adorne the body; and indeede in some cases the body …
With rule
… in soule & body: It is the common blind opinion of the world, that forraigne attyreattire and rich Iewels do adorne the body; and indeede in some cases the body …
William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · p. 208 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vices are ſubtill and ſlie, they can borrow habits, and dreſſe themſelves in the attyreattire of vertues; covetouſneſſe may claime kindred with, and go under the habit of frugality …
With rule
… vices are ſubtill and ſlie, they can borrow habits, and dreſſe themſelves in the attyreattire of vertues; covetouſneſſe may claime kindred with, and go under the habit of frugality …
John Stoughton · The Arraignment of Covetousness · p. 31 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition of Revelation 1-3 A09443

Printed
AttyreAttire… A rule for it. 53.2 b.
With rule
AttyreAttire… A rule for it. 53.2 b.
William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · Open in the reader

Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth A09810

Printed
… best yeares, an able body, graue of countenance, and spare of speech: In his AttyreAttire little or nothing differing from the rest of his followers, only in a great …
With rule
… best yeares, an able body, graue of countenance, and spare of speech: In his AttyreAttire little or nothing differing from the rest of his followers, only in a great …
William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 37 · Open in the reader

The Anatomy of Abuses A13086

Printed
… not haue men to obserue a decencie, a comlinesse & a decorum in their vsuall AttyreAttire? Doeth not the worde of God commaund vs to do all things decenter, & secundum …
With rule
… not haue men to obserue a decencie, a comlinesse & a decorum in their vsuall AttyreAttire? Doeth not the worde of God commaund vs to do all things decenter, & secundum …
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses · Open in the reader
Printed
… a comly order, and as you say, a decorum were obserued, as well in AttyreAttire, as in all things els: but, would God the contrarie were not true: For …
With rule
… a comly order, and as you say, a decorum were obserued, as well in AttyreAttire, as in all things els: but, would God the contrarie were not true: For …
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses · Open in the reader
Printed
Their customes olde, or els AttyreAttire,
With rule
Their customes olde, or els AttyreAttire,
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses · Open in the reader
Printed
… retyred back, for feare of their thunderclappes, and repayringe home, appaireled himselfe, in riche AttyreAttire, and came againe marchinge towards the court, he was no sooner in sight, but …
With rule
… retyred back, for feare of their thunderclappes, and repayringe home, appaireled himselfe, in riche AttyreAttire, and came againe marchinge towards the court, he was no sooner in sight, but …
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses · Open in the reader