Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4632 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

importunitieimportunity

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

Puritas changed it: 498 times in 261 works
Consistency: 96.3% (498 of 517)
Reach if approved: ~543 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: importunity
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 517 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (498 changes in 261 works, 96.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 498)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… endeavours, I feare not, I regard not a thouſand cenſures. It is not the importunitieimportunity of others, the commemoration of paſt kindneſſes, expectation of, or invention unto future favours …
With rule
… endeavours, I feare not, I regard not a thouſand cenſures. It is not the importunitieimportunity of others, the commemoration of paſt kindneſſes, expectation of, or invention unto future favours …
Alexander Grosse · Deaths Deliverance and Elijahs Fiery Chariot · Open in the reader
Printed
… her a great while, even to try her faith, and encrease her fervencie and importunitieimportunity in seeking to him by prayer. Mat. 15.22.28.
With rule
… her a great while, even to try her faith, and encrease her fervencie and importunitieimportunity in seeking to him by prayer. Mat. 15.22.28.
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 154 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of such as seeke to reuiue the heresie of Arius. This continual diligence and importunitieimportunity of the enemy it behoueth vs to know, that we fall not into security …
With rule
… of such as seeke to reuiue the heresie of Arius. This continual diligence and importunitieimportunity of the enemy it behoueth vs to know, that we fall not into security …
Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 232 · Open in the reader
Printed
… aforehand, doth it not as one compelled or enforced either by neceſſity, law, or importunitieimportunity, but moſt freely, lovingly and bountifully, being moved, and induced thereunto only out of …
With rule
… aforehand, doth it not as one compelled or enforced either by neceſſity, law, or importunitieimportunity, but moſt freely, lovingly and bountifully, being moved, and induced thereunto only out of …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 213 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for since they left it, they could not thriue: who, ouercome by their fond importunitieimportunity, graunted their request; which they with ioy accepted, and doe still obserue.
With rule
… for since they left it, they could not thriue: who, ouercome by their fond importunitieimportunity, graunted their request; which they with ioy accepted, and doe still obserue.
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 360 · Open in the reader
Printed
… would destroy Israel, but diuerteth the plague denounced against them. Goodnes cannot denie the importunitieimportunity of beloued-ones: The bad whereof is in an earthly father, whose bowels are …
With rule
… would destroy Israel, but diuerteth the plague denounced against them. Goodnes cannot denie the importunitieimportunity of beloued-ones: The bad whereof is in an earthly father, whose bowels are …
Francis Rous · The Art of Happiness · p. 317 · Open in the reader
Printed
… incurre Caesars displeasure, labouring to saue the innocent, was at length overcome by their importunitieimportunity and clamours, therefore had they the greater sin. Verily the justice of God, proportioning …
With rule
… incurre Caesars displeasure, labouring to saue the innocent, was at length overcome by their importunitieimportunity and clamours, therefore had they the greater sin. Verily the justice of God, proportioning …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… men pressed the publishing of it, and that more of them, and with more importunitieimportunity many of them than is fit for me here to relate: I may truly …
With rule
… men pressed the publishing of it, and that more of them, and with more importunitieimportunity many of them than is fit for me here to relate: I may truly …
Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · p. 44 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (19)

10 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Explication of Psalm 110 A10650

Printed
From the ImportunitieImportunity of Temptations.
With rule
From the ImportunitieImportunity of Temptations.
Edward Reynolds · Explication of Psalm 110 · Open in the reader

Three Treatises A10659

Printed
Christian Reader, ImportunitieImportunity of Friends hath over-rul'd me to this Publication; and importunitieimportunity of businesse crossing …
With rule
Christian Reader, ImportunitieImportunity of Friends hath over-rul'd me to this Publication; and importunitieimportunity of businesse crossing …
Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · Open in the reader

Christs Combat and Conquest A13530

Printed
ImportunitieImportunity of Satan against Christ and his members to drawe them to sinne, 4. reas. 279
With rule
ImportunitieImportunity of Satan against Christ and his members to drawe them to sinne, 4. reas. 279
Thomas Taylor · Christs Combat and Conquest · Open in the reader

The Triumph of a True Christian Described A21269

Printed
ImportunitieImportunity in prayer needfull. p. 380
With rule
ImportunitieImportunity in prayer needfull. p. 380
Edward Elton · The Triumph of a True Christian Described · Open in the reader

The Anatomy of Infidelity A41604

Printed
… how long did he wait for her Reception of him? What ſacred, and ſweet ImportunitieImportunity did he uſe, to perſuade, and prevail upon her, in that her day, to …
With rule
… how long did he wait for her Reception of him? What ſacred, and ſweet ImportunitieImportunity did he uſe, to perſuade, and prevail upon her, in that her day, to …
Theophilus Gale · The Anatomy of Infidelity · p. 92 · Open in the reader

Christs Tears for Jerusalems Unbelief A41628

Printed
… how long did he wait for her Reception of him? What ſacred, and ſweet ImportunitieImportunity did he uſe, to perſuade, and prevail upon her, in that her day, to …
With rule
… how long did he wait for her Reception of him? What ſacred, and ſweet ImportunitieImportunity did he uſe, to perſuade, and prevail upon her, in that her day, to …
Theophilus Gale · Christs Tears for Jerusalems Unbelief · p. 92 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

Printed
… men. Sudden feares, when they haue poſſeſſed weake minds, lead them to ſhamefull errours. ImportunitieImportunity or violence may leſſen, but they cannot excuſe a fault. Wherefore was he a …
With rule
… men. Sudden feares, when they haue poſſeſſed weake minds, lead them to ſhamefull errours. ImportunitieImportunity or violence may leſſen, but they cannot excuſe a fault. Wherefore was he a …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 900 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are the motions of friends, where wee doe wilfully ſhut vp our owne lips: ImportunitieImportunity cannot but ſpeed well in both. Could wee but ſpeake for our ſelues, as …
With rule
… are the motions of friends, where wee doe wilfully ſhut vp our owne lips: ImportunitieImportunity cannot but ſpeed well in both. Could wee but ſpeake for our ſelues, as …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 1205 · Open in the reader
Printed
ImportunitieImportunity: Its good ſpeed. 1205
With rule
ImportunitieImportunity: Its good ſpeed. 1205
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · Open in the reader

A Warning Piece for the Slumbering Virgins A94266

Printed
2. Watchfullneſse helps us to ImportunitieImportunity in prayer: A watchfull Soul is good at holding out with Gods, ſits up …
With rule
2. Watchfullneſse helps us to ImportunitieImportunity in prayer: A watchfull Soul is good at holding out with Gods, ſits up …
George Scortreth · A Warning Piece for the Slumbering Virgins · p. 93 · Open in the reader