Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4631 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

heynousheinous

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

Puritas changed it: 741 times in 300 works
Consistency: 99.3% (741 of 746)
Reach if approved: ~784 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: heinous
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 746 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (741 changes in 300 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 741)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and ſo in proportion for other offences; ſo that there is no ſinne ſo heynousheinous, for which pardon may not be purchaſed for a ſmall ſumme of money. Now …
With rule
… and ſo in proportion for other offences; ſo that there is no ſinne ſo heynousheinous, for which pardon may not be purchaſed for a ſmall ſumme of money. Now …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 370 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to breake the commandements of the firſt Table is in it ſelfe ſimply more heynousheinous, and this ſinne ſhall haue a more grieuous puniſhment in hell then ſinnes againſt …
With rule
… to breake the commandements of the firſt Table is in it ſelfe ſimply more heynousheinous, and this ſinne ſhall haue a more grieuous puniſhment in hell then ſinnes againſt …
John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 194 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cause he was esteemed worse then Barrabas, thinke of thy selfe as a most heynousheinous and wretched sinner, and (as Paul saith) the head of all sinners. When thou …
With rule
… cause he was esteemed worse then Barrabas, thinke of thy selfe as a most heynousheinous and wretched sinner, and (as Paul saith) the head of all sinners. When thou …
William Perkins · The True Manner of Knowing Christ Crucified · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ansforming God into the devill; the true Christ into a false, the Gospell into heynousheinous Idolatry; and the means of salvation into the high way, and most effectual cause …
With rule
… ansforming God into the devill; the true Christ into a false, the Gospell into heynousheinous Idolatry; and the means of salvation into the high way, and most effectual cause …
John Robinson · Defense of the Synod of Dort · p. 72 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ignorantia Iuris, as they call it;) concerning the nature of Fornication: which being an heynousheinous sinne, hee tooke to be eyther none at all, or a very small one …
With rule
… Ignorantia Iuris, as they call it;) concerning the nature of Fornication: which being an heynousheinous sinne, hee tooke to be eyther none at all, or a very small one …
Robert Sanderson · Two Sermons at Pauls Cross · p. 84 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the daye of iudgement, as they seeme to do which being penitent for their heynousheinous sinnes, yet are not absolued from them by the Church: An other thing to …
With rule
… the daye of iudgement, as they seeme to do which being penitent for their heynousheinous sinnes, yet are not absolued from them by the Church: An other thing to …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 139 · Open in the reader
Printed
2 When a light offence is made heynousheinous through ill will, without deſire to amend, or to couer the ſame. Actes 2. 13. 14. 15. 1. Sam. 1. 13.
With rule
2 When a light offence is made heynousheinous through ill will, without deſire to amend, or to couer the ſame. Actes 2. 13. 14. 15. 1. Sam. 1. 13.
Thomas Granger · The Tree of Good and Evil · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
… great learned Philoſopher was impriſoned by Domitiā. What then deſerue ſuch as commit this heynousheinous act againſt their milde and mercifull Prince? Surely no mercy, being mercileſſe themſelues, yea …
With rule
… great learned Philoſopher was impriſoned by Domitiā. What then deſerue ſuch as commit this heynousheinous act againſt their milde and mercifull Prince? Surely no mercy, being mercileſſe themſelues, yea …
Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · p. 50 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

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

Commissioners Petitioning for Review of Book of Common Prayer A26853

Printed
… questionless of Apostolical practice. You will not alter Deadly Sin in the Letany into HeynousHeinous Sin, though it hints to us that some sins are in their own nature …
With rule
… questionless of Apostolical practice. You will not alter Deadly Sin in the Letany into HeynousHeinous Sin, though it hints to us that some sins are in their own nature …
Richard Baxter · Commissioners Petitioning for Review of Book of Common Prayer · Open in the reader

Inquiry into the Nature of Evangelical Churches A53704

Printed
… ground for a Separation from a Church, wherein it is confessed there are no HeynousHeinous Errors in Doctrine, or Idolatrous Practise in Worship, that is, as he before cited …
With rule
… ground for a Separation from a Church, wherein it is confessed there are no HeynousHeinous Errors in Doctrine, or Idolatrous Practise in Worship, that is, as he before cited …
John Owen · Inquiry into the Nature of Evangelical Churches · p. 283 · Open in the reader

The Grand Debate Between Bishops and Presbyterian Divines A69535

Printed
… queſtionleſſe of Apoſtolicall practiſe; you will not alter Deadly Sin in the Letany into HeynousHeinous Sin, though it hints to us that ſome ſins are in their own nature …
With rule
… queſtionleſſe of Apoſtolicall practiſe; you will not alter Deadly Sin in the Letany into HeynousHeinous Sin, though it hints to us that ſome ſins are in their own nature …
Richard Baxter · The Grand Debate Between Bishops and Presbyterian Divines · p. 30 · Open in the reader