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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4606 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

angrieangry

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

Puritas changed it
1,802 times in 486 works
Consistency
100% (1,802 of 1,802)
Reach if approved
~1,895 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: angry
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,804 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,802 changes in 486 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,802)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … theſe things to the bodies of innocents, which neither most cruell robbers, nor most angrieangry enimies, nor moſt furious barbarians haue at any time done? And by and by …
    With rule
    … theſe things to the bodies of innocents, which neither most cruell robbers, nor most angrieangry enimies, nor moſt furious barbarians haue at any time done? And by and by …

    François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 269 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … cauſe or ende for which the Heathen firſt deviſed Playes, was to pacifie their angrieangry gods, and ſo remoue ſome preſent calamitie which vexed them. The Lydians ſought by …
    With rule
    … cauſe or ende for which the Heathen firſt deviſed Playes, was to pacifie their angrieangry gods, and ſo remoue ſome preſent calamitie which vexed them. The Lydians ſought by …

    Alexander Leighton · A Short Treatise Against Stage Plays · p. 9 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … when hee talkes with God about Sodome, sayth thus, Let not my Lord bee angrieangry, if I dust, and ashes speake vnto him.
    With rule
    … when hee talkes with God about Sodome, sayth thus, Let not my Lord bee angrieangry, if I dust, and ashes speake vnto him.

    William Loe · The Mystery of Mankind · p. 229 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … be poor and mean and comfortleſſe in the world: Therefore they conclude God is angrieangry with them, or that they are not that which they ſeem to themſelves to …
    With rule
    … be poor and mean and comfortleſſe in the world: Therefore they conclude God is angrieangry with them, or that they are not that which they ſeem to themſelves to …

    William Fenner · The Souls Looking Glass 2 · p. 240 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … him to no sinne. For whereas it is here saide, that the Lorde was angrieangry with Israel, and moued Dauid against them (for we can not aptly vnderstand any …
    With rule
    … him to no sinne. For whereas it is here saide, that the Lorde was angrieangry with Israel, and moued Dauid against them (for we can not aptly vnderstand any …

    William Fulke · Sermon 26 February 1580 · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Thus shee was AngrieAngry with her selfe for being AngrieAngry with others, and then (according to Saint Ambroses rule) it ceased towards them before …
    With rule
    Thus shee was AngrieAngry with her selfe for being AngrieAngry with others, and then (according to Saint Ambroses rule) it ceased towards them before …

    Hannibal Gamon · The Praise of a Godly Woman · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    2. We haue the Dar…; and that's the AngrieAngry man. This is the Serpent that is thought to leape on Pauls hand. Iaculum …
    With rule
    2. We haue the Dar…; and that's the AngrieAngry man. This is the Serpent that is thought to leape on Pauls hand. Iaculum …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 321 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … speciallye here in Englande / doth yet tore abrode lyke hongrie lyons / frete inwardlye lyke angrieangry beares / and byte as they dare lyke cruel wolues / …ringe togyther in corners … a …
    With rule
    … speciallye here in Englande / doth yet tore abrode lyke hongrie lyons / frete inwardlye lyke angrieangry beares / and byte as they dare lyke cruel wolues / …ringe togyther in corners … a …

    John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · 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.