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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4565 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

maimay

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

Puritas changed it
271 times in 116 works
Consistency
79.4% (271 of 341)
Reach if approved
~358 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: mai
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
341 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (271 changes in 116 works, 79.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 271)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … be past all remedy / thā he setteth to his hād / & maruelously helpeth / that he maimay shew hī self to be an almighty Lord & valeaūt ruler of all creatures / & that …
    With rule
    … be past all remedy / thā he setteth to his hād / & maruelously helpeth / that he maimay shew hī self to be an almighty Lord & valeaūt ruler of all creatures / & that …

    Thomas Becon · A Comfortable Epistle to Gods Faithful People in England · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … likewiſe this ciuill law doth not make vſuri ſo lawful yt a chriſtē mā maimay vſe it withoute offēce afore god. As Chriſt ſpake vnto ye Iewes of ye …
    With rule
    … likewiſe this ciuill law doth not make vſuri ſo lawful yt a chriſtē mā maimay vſe it withoute offēce afore god. As Chriſt ſpake vnto ye Iewes of ye …

    Wolfgang Musculus · Lawful and Unlawful Usury Amongst Christians · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … For cursers of parents. 18, For smiters. 22, For hurting a wom…n: with child. 26, For maimay…ing a servant. 28, For an oxe that goreth. 33, For him that is an occasion …
    With rule
    … For cursers of parents. 18, For smiters. 22, For hurting a wom…n: with child. 26, For maimay…ing a servant. 28, For an oxe that goreth. 33, For him that is an occasion …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 78 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    The Plea may be maimay…tained, though that all
    With rule
    The Plea may be maimay…tained, though that all

    George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … harde & beleued ye word: ergo, thei did not baptiſe infantes. For theſe .ii. ſentences maimay both be true. The apoſtles did baptiſe them yt beleued: &: ye Apoſtles did baptiſe …
    With rule
    … harde & beleued ye word: ergo, thei did not baptiſe infantes. For theſe .ii. ſentences maimay both be true. The apoſtles did baptiſe them yt beleued: &: ye Apoſtles did baptiſe …

    Henrich Bullinger · Defense of the Baptism of Children · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the fournace of ſome alcumiſte. For it is multiplied to four beſide thoſe yt maimay be in other places here and there, whereof I haue not hearde. There is …
    With rule
    … the fournace of ſome alcumiſte. For it is multiplied to four beſide thoſe yt maimay be in other places here and there, whereof I haue not hearde. There is …

    John Calvin · Of Relics · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … tru meaning, as the kernel, to be tried: the old rule of al ages, maimay lead and teach ſufficiētly. That is that no one place of ſcripture be ſet …
    With rule
    … tru meaning, as the kernel, to be tried: the old rule of al ages, maimay lead and teach ſufficiētly. That is that no one place of ſcripture be ſet …

    Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … ſpeaketh he in theſe wordes: who may make. Here God ſaieth ye, as none maimay moue his wrath againſt his choſē (& here of ought ye to reioyce brethren, the …
    With rule
    … ſpeaketh he in theſe wordes: who may make. Here God ſaieth ye, as none maimay moue his wrath againſt his choſē (& here of ought ye to reioyce brethren, the …

    John Knox · Letter to Lady Mary · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (70)

17 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 are listed here. 53 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Conference Between Rainolds and Hart A10345

  • Printed
    … autoritie, learning, and iudgement, euen amongst them whom this Tertullus nameth reprochef…lly great MaiMay…ters, who could haue shewed this long ago. …wbeit they haue stayed hetherto from …
    With rule
    … autoritie, learning, and iudgement, euen amongst them whom this Tertullus nameth reprochef…lly great MaiMay…ters, who could haue shewed this long ago. …wbeit they haue stayed hetherto from …

    John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 661 · Open in the reader

Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs A11649

  • Printed
    … was the first that came to hand, after he came out of the Sanctuary, MaiMay▪ ibidem, chap. 5. sect. 11. It is recorded, that in the Temple at Ierusalem, there were …
    With rule
    … was the first that came to hand, after he came out of the Sanctuary, MaiMay▪ ibidem, chap. 5. sect. 11. It is recorded, that in the Temple at Ierusalem, there were …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … clean vessel were brokē, the peeces of it, were not capable of uncleannes: as MaiMay. sheweth in Celim, c. 7. s. 2. &c. 8. s. 1. &c. 1. s. 1. and ch. 6. s. 1. put] or …
    With rule
    … clean vessel were brokē, the peeces of it, were not capable of uncleannes: as MaiMay. sheweth in Celim, c. 7. s. 2. &c. 8. s. 1. &c. 1. s. 1. and ch. 6. s. 1. put] or …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 58 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to the West, and their back parts to the East. Talmud in Ioma. ch. 3. MaiMay. in Iom. hakip. c. 3. s. 2. at the doore] that is, within the court-yard …
    With rule
    … to the West, and their back parts to the East. Talmud in Ioma. ch. 3. MaiMay. in Iom. hakip. c. 3. s. 2. at the doore] that is, within the court-yard …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 90 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … for it is written (in Deut. 4. 9.) Take heed to thy self, & keep thy soule, MaiMay. in Sanbedrin, c. 26. s. 1. 2. 3. not put] Hebr. not give a stumbling-blocks, or (as …
    With rule
    … for it is written (in Deut. 4. 9.) Take heed to thy self, & keep thy soule, MaiMay. in Sanbedrin, c. 26. s. 1. 2. 3. not put] Hebr. not give a stumbling-blocks, or (as …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 111 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … hee find not the dead there, then he may eat it at evening, &c. MaiMay… my in Korban Pesach, chap. 6. sect. 1 &c. a j…urney] or, a way farre …
    With rule
    … hee find not the dead there, then he may eat it at evening, &c. MaiMay… my in Korban Pesach, chap. 6. sect. 1 &c. a j…urney] or, a way farre …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 56 · Open in the reader

The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet A19855

  • Printed
    … That which was giuen at the ſecond and publique faſt was diſtributed by the MaiMay…r, where of ſome he gaue to the poore of that town, and ſome …
    With rule
    … That which was giuen at the ſecond and publique faſt was diſtributed by the MaiMay…r, where of ſome he gaue to the poore of that town, and ſome …

    John Darrell · The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet · p. 86 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … …hew his own trickes, and … with the MaiMay… was that therby … Commiſſioners that whatſoeuer he had done … counterfeyted, or as M Fre …
    With rule
    … …hew his own trickes, and … with the MaiMay… was that therby … Commiſſioners that whatſoeuer he had done … counterfeyted, or as M Fre …

    John Darrell · The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet · p. 137 · Open in the reader