Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4566 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

moysturemoisture

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

Puritas changed it: 649 times in 295 works
Consistency: 95.7% (649 of 678)
Reach if approved: ~713 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: moisture
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 679 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (649 changes in 295 works, 95.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 649)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſucke the bloud one of another, violate the relations of peace, concoct all our moyſturemoisture into malice; here is worſe then, Invenio fructum nullum, I finde none: for Invenio …
With rule
… ſucke the bloud one of another, violate the relations of peace, concoct all our moyſturemoisture into malice; here is worſe then, Invenio fructum nullum, I finde none: for Invenio …
Thomas Adams · The Barren Tree · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to wither away, dry vp, and starue: euen as the plant doth, that lacketh moysturemoisture. The which we see now by experience, in many a thousand, who for lacke …
With rule
… to wither away, dry vp, and starue: euen as the plant doth, that lacketh moysturemoisture. The which we see now by experience, in many a thousand, who for lacke …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · Open in the reader
Printed
… many things do shew. What maketh the salt to bee wet, but that the moysturemoisture of the ayre doth dissolue it? what maketh the marble stone to sweat against …
With rule
… many things do shew. What maketh the salt to bee wet, but that the moysturemoisture of the ayre doth dissolue it? what maketh the marble stone to sweat against …
George Gifford · Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils · Open in the reader
Printed
… and night through extremity of grief: his bones were conſumed with ſorrow; and his moyſturemoisture was like the drought in ſummer. Betrayed by his falſe-hearted friends, perſecuted, and …
With rule
… and night through extremity of grief: his bones were conſumed with ſorrow; and his moyſturemoisture was like the drought in ſummer. Betrayed by his falſe-hearted friends, perſecuted, and …
Adam Harsnett · A Cordial for the Afflicted · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſignified by this bread and wine: for as without bread and wine (or other moyſturemoisture) we could not poſſibly liue (whereas we may well ſpare many vnneceſſary dainties) ſo …
With rule
… ſignified by this bread and wine: for as without bread and wine (or other moyſturemoisture) we could not poſſibly liue (whereas we may well ſpare many vnneceſſary dainties) ſo …
Robert Jenison · The Worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader
Printed
1. Againſt vnſeaſonable weather, immoderate raines, vntimely heate or cold, and droughts when wee need moyſturemoisture, againſt peſtilent influences from any ſtar, or out of the earth by the vapours …
With rule
1. Againſt vnſeaſonable weather, immoderate raines, vntimely heate or cold, and droughts when wee need moyſturemoisture, againſt peſtilent influences from any ſtar, or out of the earth by the vapours …
John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 467 · Open in the reader
Printed
B Colde cloudes inclining to moysturemoisture.
With rule
B Colde cloudes inclining to moysturemoisture.
William Perkins · Four Great Liars Striving · Open in the reader
Printed
… Garden where God had placed him, because of that continuall depashion of his radicall moysturemoisture by vita…l heat▪ which made Nature to stand in need of succours and …
With rule
… Garden where God had placed him, because of that continuall depashion of his radicall moysturemoisture by vita…l heat▪ which made Nature to stand in need of succours and …
Edward Reynolds · Meditations on the Lords Supper · p. 173 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (29)

19 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 10 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

Printed
… Heate, and another ouer the Colde; one ouer the Dryth, and another ouer the MoystureMoisture; so as there were diuers makers or gouerners of the worlde: wee should also …
With rule
… Heate, and another ouer the Colde; one ouer the Dryth, and another ouer the MoystureMoisture; so as there were diuers makers or gouerners of the worlde: wee should also …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 16 · Open in the reader

The Diseases of the Time A11070

Printed
… thy Soule, before the darknesse of excesse sent vp from the grosse vapors of MoystureMoisture. Bee thou farre more glad to haue thoughts of Purity, thoughts of Felicity, thoughts …
With rule
… thy Soule, before the darknesse of excesse sent vp from the grosse vapors of MoystureMoisture. Bee thou farre more glad to haue thoughts of Purity, thoughts of Felicity, thoughts …
Francis Rous · The Diseases of the Time · p. 351 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thou wilt not quench it for the World, by the inundation of a brutifying MoystureMoisture. And hauing chased away this tempting Ammonite, that will not make peace with thee …
With rule
… thou wilt not quench it for the World, by the inundation of a brutifying MoystureMoisture. And hauing chased away this tempting Ammonite, that will not make peace with thee …
Francis Rous · The Diseases of the Time · p. 351 · Open in the reader

The Returning Backslider A12190

Printed
1. MoyſtureMoisture.
With rule
1. MoyſtureMoisture.
Richard Sibbes · The Returning Backslider · p. 251 · Open in the reader
Printed
For we know MoyſtureMoisture and Heate, theſe two are the cauſes of all kindly growth. If a tree …
With rule
For we know MoyſtureMoisture and Heate, theſe two are the cauſes of all kindly growth. If a tree …
Richard Sibbes · The Returning Backslider · p. 251 · Open in the reader

Davids Learning A13538

Printed
2. MoystureMoisture turned into drought of Summer.
With rule
2. MoystureMoisture turned into drought of Summer.
Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · Open in the reader

The Parable of the Sower and of the Seed A13547

Printed
1. MoystureMoisture: in Text.
With rule
1. MoystureMoisture: in Text.
Thomas Taylor · The Parable of the Sower and of the Seed · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
MoystureMoisture of grace, the kinds. 120
With rule
MoystureMoisture of grace, the kinds. 120
Thomas Taylor · The Parable of the Sower and of the Seed · Open in the reader
Printed
MoystureMoisture of grace is of 1. Vnction. 2. Compunction. 123
With rule
MoystureMoisture of grace is of 1. Vnction. 2. Compunction. 123
Thomas Taylor · The Parable of the Sower and of the Seed · Open in the reader

The Saints Humiliation A13835

Printed
1. MoyſtureMoisture in the Ordinance.
With rule
1. MoyſtureMoisture in the Ordinance.
Samuel Torshell · The Saints Humiliation · Open in the reader

Emblems Ancient and Modern A15631

Printed
(In Sighes or MoyſtureMoisture) or the Heart will breake;
With rule
(In Sighes or MoyſtureMoisture) or the Heart will breake;
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 21 · Open in the reader

Westminster Annotations A36467

Printed
over the wall] MoystureMoisture and heat are the causes of fruitfulnesse; the Well here spoken of is a …
With rule
over the wall] MoystureMoisture and heat are the causes of fruitfulnesse; the Well here spoken of is a …
John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader

The Beloved Disciple A40518

Printed
… God was ſo Extream Hot, that it did even Exhauſt and dry up his MoyſtureMoisture; My zeale hath conſumed me: Holy affections are able to work upon the body …
With rule
… God was ſo Extream Hot, that it did even Exhauſt and dry up his MoyſtureMoisture; My zeale hath conſumed me: Holy affections are able to work upon the body …
Thomas Froysell · The Beloved Disciple · p. 57 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

Printed
… What by the Heavens, Earth, Waters, Fire, Air? What by Frost, Snow, Heat, Drought, MoystureMoisture, Night, Day? What by Wind, Rain, Seed-time, Harvest, Summer, Winter? What by the …
With rule
… What by the Heavens, Earth, Waters, Fire, Air? What by Frost, Snow, Heat, Drought, MoystureMoisture, Night, Day? What by Wind, Rain, Seed-time, Harvest, Summer, Winter? What by the …
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · Open in the reader
Printed
MoystureMoisture]
With rule
MoystureMoisture]
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 426 · Open in the reader

The Hypocrites Ladder A93061

Printed
… in fruit, which anſwer to theſe four kindes of grace, viz. a Plough, Root, MoyſtureMoisture, and Sun. The good ground had all. The high-way ground wanted nothing but …
With rule
… in fruit, which anſwer to theſe four kindes of grace, viz. a Plough, Root, MoyſtureMoisture, and Sun. The good ground had all. The high-way ground wanted nothing but …
John Sheffeild · The Hypocrites Ladder · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ground had all. The high-way ground wanted nothing but a Plough (not Root, MoyſtureMoisture, or Sun) had it been taken in, well broken up, and kept from the …
With rule
… ground had all. The high-way ground wanted nothing but a Plough (not Root, MoyſtureMoisture, or Sun) had it been taken in, well broken up, and kept from the …
John Sheffeild · The Hypocrites Ladder · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it wanted no Sun neither (it had too much) it wanted Root within, and MoyſtureMoisture from above, and a good ſtone gatherer. The Thorny ground wanted not the Plough …
With rule
… it wanted no Sun neither (it had too much) it wanted Root within, and MoyſtureMoisture from above, and a good ſtone gatherer. The Thorny ground wanted not the Plough …
John Sheffeild · The Hypocrites Ladder · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a good ſtone gatherer. The Thorny ground wanted not the Plough, nor Root, nor MoyſtureMoisture, onely wanted the Sun, which the Thorns kept from the Corn that it could …
With rule
… a good ſtone gatherer. The Thorny ground wanted not the Plough, nor Root, nor MoyſtureMoisture, onely wanted the Sun, which the Thorns kept from the Corn that it could …
John Sheffeild · The Hypocrites Ladder · p. 52 · Open in the reader