Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4619 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

envieenvy

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

Puritas changed it: 1,840 times in 671 works
Consistency: 99.8% (1,840 of 1,843)
Reach if approved: ~1,938 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: envy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,844 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,840 changes in 671 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,840)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… selfe, so far as is possible, with al men: Expell all malice, hatred, and envieenvy. Be not a revenger of thine owne cause: For thereby thou sall renew and …
With rule
… selfe, so far as is possible, with al men: Expell all malice, hatred, and envieenvy. Be not a revenger of thine owne cause: For thereby thou sall renew and …
Alexander Hume · Treatise of Conscience Wherein Divers Secrets are Discovered · p. 64 · Open in the reader
Printed
Secondly, they muſt not envieenvy their captives but as they are Gods enemies, and ſo they muſt hate them …
With rule
Secondly, they muſt not envieenvy their captives but as they are Gods enemies, and ſo they muſt hate them …
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 248 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you shall see ever whole legions of Divels domineering ouer them, pride, covetousnesse, ambition, envieenvy, malice, vncleane desires, with a number of such like black and hellish lusts raigning …
With rule
… you shall see ever whole legions of Divels domineering ouer them, pride, covetousnesse, ambition, envieenvy, malice, vncleane desires, with a number of such like black and hellish lusts raigning …
William Pemble · Five Godly and Profitable Sermons · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… betweene; what they were once, and what they are now; what it is to envieenvy the Saints, and what it is to have an affection of love to them …
With rule
… betweene; what they were once, and what they are now; what it is to envieenvy the Saints, and what it is to have an affection of love to them …
John Preston · Life Eternal · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with secret repinings enuying that glorie to a stranger; but biting in their biting envieenvy, and making shew of glee and gladnesse: all new awaked out of a long …
With rule
… with secret repinings enuying that glorie to a stranger; but biting in their biting envieenvy, and making shew of glee and gladnesse: all new awaked out of a long …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 612 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God) to draw any envieenvy and calumnie upon the doctrine hee taught: notwithstanding such envieenvy and imputation would have risen from a scandall unduly taken, without any just reason …
With rule
… God) to draw any envieenvy and calumnie upon the doctrine hee taught: notwithstanding such envieenvy and imputation would have risen from a scandall unduly taken, without any just reason …
Edward Reynolds · The Shields of the Earth · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… done? ver. 22. then he diſtinctly knew and conſidered, that he was delivered up through envieenvy: Yea and when hee was upon the bench, and ready to pronounce ſentence, as …
With rule
… done? ver. 22. then he diſtinctly knew and conſidered, that he was delivered up through envieenvy: Yea and when hee was upon the bench, and ready to pronounce ſentence, as …
Thomas Goodwin · Aggravation of Sin · p. 72 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wee eyther envieenvy or hate: now God is above the reach of our low envieenvy; and therefore our lothneſſe to acknowledge him, proceeds from our inbred enmity againſt him …
With rule
… wee eyther envieenvy or hate: now God is above the reach of our low envieenvy; and therefore our lothneſſe to acknowledge him, proceeds from our inbred enmity againſt him …
Robert Harris · Hezekiahs Recovery · p. 4 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

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

The Bibles Abstract and Epitome A27502

Printed
ENvieEnvy is the rotting of the bones, and shortning of the life of a man …
With rule
ENvieEnvy is the rotting of the bones, and shortning of the life of a man …
Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 144 · Open in the reader

Irenicum to the Lover of Truth and Peace A30587

Printed
ENvieEnvy is a ſquint-eyed foole, Job 5. 2. EnvieEnvy ſtayeth the ſilly one. Jam. 3. 14. If yee …
With rule
ENvieEnvy is a ſquint-eyed foole, Job 5. 2. EnvieEnvy ſtayeth the ſilly one. Jam. 3. 14. If yee …
Jeremiah Burroughs · Irenicum to the Lover of Truth and Peace · p. 123 · Open in the reader