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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4544 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

avoydedavoided

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

Puritas changed it
638 times in 371 works
Consistency
98.9% (638 of 645)
Reach if approved
~678 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: avoided
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
645 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (638 changes in 371 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 638)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … aymed, saw it, and stooped downe and it flew over him, the rest were avoydedavoided also: he stood three shots of a Musket, at length one tooke as he …
    With rule
    … aymed, saw it, and stooped downe and it flew over him, the rest were avoydedavoided also: he stood three shots of a Musket, at length one tooke as he …

    William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … or leſſe intention and eagerneſſe of minde, as the things to be obtained or avoydedavoided, are greater or leſſe, is provident to finde out, and diligent to uſe lawfull …
    With rule
    … or leſſe intention and eagerneſſe of minde, as the things to be obtained or avoydedavoided, are greater or leſſe, is provident to finde out, and diligent to uſe lawfull …

    Henry Scudder · The Christians Daily Walk in Holy Security and Peace · p. 384 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … with them, at ſuch a diſtance and degree, whereby hurt from them may be avoydedavoided, and uſe made of them for warrantable advantage; as the Scripture requires, that wee …
    With rule
    … with them, at ſuch a diſtance and degree, whereby hurt from them may be avoydedavoided, and uſe made of them for warrantable advantage; as the Scripture requires, that wee …

    John Sym · Lifes Preservative Against Self-Killing · p. 119 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Lease so expressed his cōscience, that it was pitty if it could not be avoydedavoided by the Rules of lawe, being so ill and so vngodly an acte. If …
    With rule
    … Lease so expressed his cōscience, that it was pitty if it could not be avoydedavoided by the Rules of lawe, being so ill and so vngodly an acte. If …

    Henry Airay · Apology of Henry Airay · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the way wee are to paſſe, and is a cauſe of ſtumbling if not avoydedavoided: and this Threſhold the naturall man ſees not, neither can ſee; onely Gods illumination …
    With rule
    … the way wee are to paſſe, and is a cauſe of ſtumbling if not avoydedavoided: and this Threſhold the naturall man ſees not, neither can ſee; onely Gods illumination …

    Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Seven Consolatory Psalms of David · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    2. The hinderance to be avoydedavoided, which may let the duty; Nothing wavering: and this wavering is further amplified by …
    With rule
    2. The hinderance to be avoydedavoided, which may let the duty; Nothing wavering: and this wavering is further amplified by …

    Thomas Hooker · The Pattern of Perfection Exhibited in Gods Image on Adam · p. 320 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … this mean of information. 1. Because an evill must be knowne before it can be avoydedavoided, or removed. 2. Because in the midst of much knowledge we are like to be …
    With rule
    … this mean of information. 1. Because an evill must be knowne before it can be avoydedavoided, or removed. 2. Because in the midst of much knowledge we are like to be …

    Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 280 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … freely offered, or of the danger of ſin and iniquity when it might be avoydedavoided, but refuſeth the one, and runs into the other; ſhe did thereby adde more …
    With rule
    … freely offered, or of the danger of ſin and iniquity when it might be avoydedavoided, but refuſeth the one, and runs into the other; ſhe did thereby adde more …

    Richard Maden · Christs Love and Affection Towards Jerusalem · p. 128 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Players Scourge A10187

  • Printed
    … so sachrilegious Stage-playes, AS I HAVE NOVV OFTEN AFFIRMED, ARE VVHOLLY TO BEE AVOYDEDAVOIDED BY ALL FAITHFVLL CHRISTIANS; because we soone accustome our selves to the practise of …
    With rule
    … so sachrilegious Stage-playes, AS I HAVE NOVV OFTEN AFFIRMED, ARE VVHOLLY TO BEE AVOYDEDAVOIDED BY ALL FAITHFVLL CHRISTIANS; because we soone accustome our selves to the practise of …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 329 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … ALL SPECTACLES AND STAGE-PLAYES (I pray observe it well) ARE VVHOLY TO BE AVOYDEDAVOIDED, not on…ly lest any vices should harbour in our hearts, which ought to …
    With rule
    … ALL SPECTACLES AND STAGE-PLAYES (I pray observe it well) ARE VVHOLY TO BE AVOYDEDAVOIDED, not on…ly lest any vices should harbour in our hearts, which ought to …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 329 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to commit sinnes and vices by these representations. THEREFORE ALL PLAYES ARE TO BEE AVOYDEDAVOIDED, THAT VVE MAY enioy a serene state of minde. THESE NOXIOVS PLEASVRES ARE TO …
    With rule
    … to commit sinnes and vices by these representations. THEREFORE ALL PLAYES ARE TO BEE AVOYDEDAVOIDED, THAT VVE MAY enioy a serene state of minde. THESE NOXIOVS PLEASVRES ARE TO …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 329 · Open in the reader

Vindication of Ecclesiastical Volume 3 A70866

  • Printed
    … A Prohibition to ſtay proceedings in caſe of wreck, till his comming into England, 783. AvoydedAvoided the Kings Counſils as much as might be, came not to his Parliaments, as …
    With rule
    … A Prohibition to ſtay proceedings in caſe of wreck, till his comming into England, 783. AvoydedAvoided the Kings Counſils as much as might be, came not to his Parliaments, as …

    William Prynne · Vindication of Ecclesiastical Volume 3 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Proverbs 1-3 A95065

  • Printed
    … would not. Murder is forbidden in the ſixt Commandement. Thou ſhalt do no murder. AvoydedAvoided by David. He would not kill Saul when he had him in his power …
    With rule
    … would not. Murder is forbidden in the ſixt Commandement. Thou ſhalt do no murder. AvoydedAvoided by David. He would not kill Saul when he had him in his power …

    Francis Taylor · Exposition of Proverbs 1-3 · p. 311 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Joab, 1 King. 2.31, 34. Adultery is forbidden in the ſeventh Commandement. Thou ſhalt not commit adultery. AvoydedAvoided by Joſeph, Gen. 39.9. Threatned with deſtruction, Prov. 6.37, &c. Puniſhed in Zimri and Cozbi, Numb. 25.8.
    With rule
    … Joab, 1 King. 2.31, 34. Adultery is forbidden in the ſeventh Commandement. Thou ſhalt not commit adultery. AvoydedAvoided by Joſeph, Gen. 39.9. Threatned with deſtruction, Prov. 6.37, &c. Puniſhed in Zimri and Cozbi, Numb. 25.8.

    Francis Taylor · Exposition of Proverbs 1-3 · p. 311 · Open in the reader