Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4574 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

praysingpraising

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

Puritas changed it: 750 times in 380 works
Consistency: 100% (750 of 750)
Reach if approved: ~788 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: praising
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 750 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (750 changes in 380 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 750)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… heauenly hoſt, what a ſermon they made in the theater of glory, in their prayſingpraising of God, and you ſhall heare them ſaying, glory to God in the higheſt …
With rule
… heauenly hoſt, what a ſermon they made in the theater of glory, in their prayſingpraising of God, and you ſhall heare them ſaying, glory to God in the higheſt …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be ſlayne in and buried, And leuyng there ſong of lamentacion, beganne a newe, prayſingpraising there ſauiour and meruelous God, and puttyng awaye all mournyng and weping, daunſed to …
With rule
… be ſlayne in and buried, And leuyng there ſong of lamentacion, beganne a newe, prayſingpraising there ſauiour and meruelous God, and puttyng awaye all mournyng and weping, daunſed to …
Henrich Bullinger · Historical Table of the Bible · Open in the reader
Printed
Sik praysingpraising as may justly moue disdain.
With rule
Sik praysingpraising as may justly moue disdain.
James Melville · A Spiritual Propine of a Pastor to his People · Open in the reader
Printed
… members of the Church with Chriſt, and one with another: reioycing in heart, and prayſingpraising God therefore with the congregatiō. Afterwards 1. I muſt giue almes to the needie brethren …
With rule
… members of the Church with Chriſt, and one with another: reioycing in heart, and prayſingpraising God therefore with the congregatiō. Afterwards 1. I muſt giue almes to the needie brethren …
Richard Bernard · A Double Catechism · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… idolatrie. And ſo with the reſt of his felowes ended his life, lauding and prayſingpraising God.
With rule
… idolatrie. And ſo with the reſt of his felowes ended his life, lauding and prayſingpraising God.
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 252 · Open in the reader
Printed
Yt is not your going to the Maſſe, your prayſingpraising of the Pope, your flattring of your Quene, and ſhauen Prieſts of Baal, that …
With rule
Yt is not your going to the Maſſe, your prayſingpraising of the Pope, your flattring of your Quene, and ſhauen Prieſts of Baal, that …
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 101 · Open in the reader
Printed
… so hot: but hee that is so stricken with it, that he is past praysingpraising; so musing of it, that the sent of it appeareth in his life long …
With rule
… so hot: but hee that is so stricken with it, that he is past praysingpraising; so musing of it, that the sent of it appeareth in his life long …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 733 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with affection in a ſtinted and preſcribed form. The differences which ſome put between PrayſingPraising God with a pſalme and Calling upon Gods name are little to the purpoſe …
With rule
… with affection in a ſtinted and preſcribed form. The differences which ſome put between PrayſingPraising God with a pſalme and Calling upon Gods name are little to the purpoſe …
John Ball · A Friendly Trial of the Grounds Tending to Separation · p. 12 · 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.