Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4583 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

staiestay

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

Puritas changed it: 246 times in 107 works
Consistency: 98.4% (246 of 250)
Reach if approved: ~263 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stay
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 250 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (246 changes in 107 works, 98.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 246)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… he said, stablish me with thy free spirit; signifying therby, vnlesse the Lord woulde staiestay him with his glorious power, he should run headlōg to his own cōfusiō. Fourthly …
With rule
… he said, stablish me with thy free spirit; signifying therby, vnlesse the Lord woulde staiestay him with his glorious power, he should run headlōg to his own cōfusiō. Fourthly …
William Perkins · Whether Man Be in the Estate of Damnation or Grace · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
6 When as therefore we cal vpon the Sonne, our minds ſtaiestay not in him, but aryſe from him vnto the Father, as we are led …
With rule
6 When as therefore we cal vpon the Sonne, our minds ſtaiestay not in him, but aryſe from him vnto the Father, as we are led …
Theodore Beza · Propositions and Principles of Divinity Disputed · p. 198 · Open in the reader
Printed
… were ſo deſirous to followe Chriſt, that neither lameneſſe, nor blindnes, nor ſicknes, coulde ſtaiestay them from comming to him: but the Common people in our time, are more …
With rule
… were ſo deſirous to followe Chriſt, that neither lameneſſe, nor blindnes, nor ſicknes, coulde ſtaiestay them from comming to him: but the Common people in our time, are more …
Henry Smith · The Sinners Conversion · Open in the reader
Printed
… two Vniuerſities here. Whiche he ſo laieth out, as if we had no other ſtaiestay for Religion, but that noble mannes pleaſure, who he ſaith, if he would haue …
With rule
… two Vniuerſities here. Whiche he ſo laieth out, as if we had no other ſtaiestay for Religion, but that noble mannes pleaſure, who he ſaith, if he would haue …
Walter Travers · Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics · p. 347 · Open in the reader
Printed
… answer you eyther presently, or vpon studie: But sir, yee had not neede to staiestay vpon your three places, taken out of the firste booke of Aristotles Rhetorique, wherwith …
With rule
… answer you eyther presently, or vpon studie: But sir, yee had not neede to staiestay vpon your three places, taken out of the firste booke of Aristotles Rhetorique, wherwith …
Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · p. 99 · Open in the reader
Printed
… For wheras many earthly things were promiſed vnto them, yet that they might not ſtaiestay in them, but from them, as it were by certaine ſtairs, they might aſcend …
With rule
… For wheras many earthly things were promiſed vnto them, yet that they might not ſtaiestay in them, but from them, as it were by certaine ſtairs, they might aſcend …
Nicholas Bownd · A Treatise Full of Consolation for All that are Afflicted · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… permanent findeth he: except Gods infinite goodnesse, which he espieth to bee onely the staiestay, which neither tempest of windes, neither floodes of water are able to ouerthrow, nor …
With rule
… permanent findeth he: except Gods infinite goodnesse, which he espieth to bee onely the staiestay, which neither tempest of windes, neither floodes of water are able to ouerthrow, nor …
John Knox · A Fort for the Afflicted · Open in the reader
Printed
… for euer, the righteouſnes of God; and ſo this begonne peace & promiſed grace might ſtaiestay vppon a ſure and ſound foundation. Now the foundation is the euerlaſting prieſthood of …
With rule
… for euer, the righteouſnes of God; and ſo this begonne peace & promiſed grace might ſtaiestay vppon a ſure and ſound foundation. Now the foundation is the euerlaſting prieſthood of …
Caspar Olevian · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 120 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Friar John Francis of France A19668

Printed
… all others, for coyning of ſo manie newe Religions, where he neuer coyned any. StaieStay your ſtile therefore (I aduiſe you, yet once againe) and peſter not that page …
With rule
… all others, for coyning of ſo manie newe Religions, where he neuer coyned any. StaieStay your ſtile therefore (I aduiſe you, yet once againe) and peſter not that page …
Robert Crowley · Friar John Francis of France · Open in the reader