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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4638 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

myremire

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

Puritas changed it
451 times in 261 works
Consistency
98.0% (451 of 460)
Reach if approved
~483 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: mire
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
460 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (451 changes in 261 works, 98.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 451)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … and righteouſnes, euen then man is brought into a daungerous caſe and into the myremire, where be ſticketh, neither can he eſcape or rid him ſelf out, but is …
    With rule
    … and righteouſnes, euen then man is brought into a daungerous caſe and into the myremire, where be ſticketh, neither can he eſcape or rid him ſelf out, but is …

    Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 98 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … depe waters, so that the …loudes run ouer me. Take me out of the myremire that I sinck not. Oh let me be deliuered from them that hate me …
    With rule
    … depe waters, so that the …loudes run ouer me. Take me out of the myremire that I sinck not. Oh let me be deliuered from them that hate me …

    Thomas Becon · The Sick Mans Salve · p. 359 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … any would reach vs his hand, to drawe vs out of the filth and myremire of ſinne, we account him our greateſt enemie, There was amongeſt them, by reaſon …
    With rule
    … any would reach vs his hand, to drawe vs out of the filth and myremire of ſinne, we account him our greateſt enemie, There was amongeſt them, by reaſon …

    Eusebius Pagit · Sermon 9 June 1572 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … good workes and actions, but they are like the …aging Sea, that casts vp myremire and dirt vpon those with whom they haue to doe. So that this is …
    With rule
    … good workes and actions, but they are like the …aging Sea, that casts vp myremire and dirt vpon those with whom they haue to doe. So that this is …

    John Preston · The New Covenant · p. 63 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … her greene Figges. But Cum fermento perfundatur puluis, when the dust is leauened with myremire, and the bands of Orion haue lock'd vp the influence of Heauen. Who seeks …
    With rule
    … her greene Figges. But Cum fermento perfundatur puluis, when the dust is leauened with myremire, and the bands of Orion haue lock'd vp the influence of Heauen. Who seeks …

    Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … cloke in his journcy, his warming-pan in his bedde, his boots in the myremire, and when he is at worſt he can leape and ſay, as the countrey …
    With rule
    … cloke in his journcy, his warming-pan in his bedde, his boots in the myremire, and when he is at worſt he can leape and ſay, as the countrey …

    Robert Harris · Hezekiahs Recovery · p. 31 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the Prophets comparison, though in another sense, Esa. 57.20.) is ever casting up some filthy myremire and dirt or other, to defile our best actions by; that wee being such …
    With rule
    … the Prophets comparison, though in another sense, Esa. 57.20.) is ever casting up some filthy myremire and dirt or other, to defile our best actions by; that wee being such …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 357 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … out of this way, there is no doubt but he shal fall into the myremire: yea verily he is fallen into it already. Thys is the fashion of my …
    With rule
    … out of this way, there is no doubt but he shal fall into the myremire: yea verily he is fallen into it already. Thys is the fashion of my …

    David Lindsay · The Tragical Death of David Beaton · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    … end vse certaine prickles that grow on their tongues;) They delight also in the MyreMire like Swaine. Here are little Apes, much resembling men in their countenance, which they …
    With rule
    … end vse certaine prickles that grow on their tongues;) They delight also in the MyreMire like Swaine. Here are little Apes, much resembling men in their countenance, which they …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 454 · Open in the reader

Forty-Five Sermons Upon Psalm 130 A45242

  • Printed
    … chap. 38. where he is put into the Dungeon, where there was no Water, but MyreMire, and he ſunk in the MyreMire; Ebedmelech had a hard task to get him …
    With rule
    … chap. 38. where he is put into the Dungeon, where there was no Water, but MyreMire, and he ſunk in the MyreMire; Ebedmelech had a hard task to get him …

    George Hutcheson · Forty-Five Sermons Upon Psalm 130 · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the Dungeon, where there was no Water, but MyreMire, and he ſunk in the MyreMire; Ebedmelech had a hard task to get him up: and the People of God …
    With rule
    … the Dungeon, where there was no Water, but MyreMire, and he ſunk in the MyreMire; Ebedmelech had a hard task to get him up: and the People of God …

    George Hutcheson · Forty-Five Sermons Upon Psalm 130 · p. 7 · Open in the reader

Three Kingdoms Made One by Covenant A71282

  • Printed
    … even to a ſetting-under, and trampling upon the heads of the Righteous, as MyreMire in the Street: Thus The Lord ſuffered it to be, That His People might …
    With rule
    … even to a ſetting-under, and trampling upon the heads of the Righteous, as MyreMire in the Street: Thus The Lord ſuffered it to be, That His People might …

    Hezekiah Woodward · Three Kingdoms Made One by Covenant · p. 2 · Open in the reader