Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4641 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

needieneedy

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

Puritas changed it: 546 times in 213 works
Consistency: 99.2% (546 of 550)
Reach if approved: ~578 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: needy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 550 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (546 changes in 213 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 546)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and in her daughters: neither did ſhe ſtrengthen the hande of the poore and needieneedy: but thei were hautie and committed abhomination before me, therefore I tooke theim awaie …
With rule
… and in her daughters: neither did ſhe ſtrengthen the hande of the poore and needieneedy: but thei were hautie and committed abhomination before me, therefore I tooke theim awaie …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 141 · Open in the reader
Printed
… preſence, and pleaſures at his right hand for euermore: But rather as vagrant and needieneedy rogues that haue nothing and can get no entertainment, and as hungrie dogs runne …
With rule
… preſence, and pleaſures at his right hand for euermore: But rather as vagrant and needieneedy rogues that haue nothing and can get no entertainment, and as hungrie dogs runne …
William Negus · Mans Active Obedience · p. 129 · Open in the reader
Printed
… do know and regard the same. Psal. 113.6, 7, The raising vp of the poore and needieneedy, is made a fruit of Gods beholding the things that are done vpon the …
With rule
… do know and regard the same. Psal. 113.6, 7, The raising vp of the poore and needieneedy, is made a fruit of Gods beholding the things that are done vpon the …
William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · p. 100 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they ſhall haue patience, yea and ioy in tribulation, mercifulnes and liberalitie to the needieneedy, contempt of the world, willingneſſe and readines to die, and a ſupplie of all …
With rule
… they ſhall haue patience, yea and ioy in tribulation, mercifulnes and liberalitie to the needieneedy, contempt of the world, willingneſſe and readines to die, and a ſupplie of all …
Richard Rogers · Sermons · p. 119 · Open in the reader
Printed
… affoord a morsell of bread: but if not that, yet ther is none so needieneedy, that cannot giue a cup of colde water, and euen so small a gift …
With rule
… affoord a morsell of bread: but if not that, yet ther is none so needieneedy, that cannot giue a cup of colde water, and euen so small a gift …
Henry Smith · The Sinners Confession · Open in the reader
Printed
… to no other end, but that I should destribute them to the poore and needieneedy. Oh Lord giue mee a willing heart, and readie minde to doe good, according …
With rule
… to no other end, but that I should destribute them to the poore and needieneedy. Oh Lord giue mee a willing heart, and readie minde to doe good, according …
Philip Stubbes · A Perfect Pathway to Felicity · Open in the reader
Printed
… light, and treasures of knowledge? how poore thy heart in bowels of mercie? how needieneedy art thou in faith, loue, and those heavenly riches? Thou which art beggerly in …
With rule
… light, and treasures of knowledge? how poore thy heart in bowels of mercie? how needieneedy art thou in faith, loue, and those heavenly riches? Thou which art beggerly in …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the poore. Thou haſt beene a ſtrength to the poore, a ſtrength to the needieneedy in his diſtreſſe; a refuge from the ſtorme, a ſhadow from the heate, when …
With rule
… the poore. Thou haſt beene a ſtrength to the poore, a ſtrength to the needieneedy in his diſtreſſe; a refuge from the ſtorme, a ſhadow from the heate, when …
John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 327 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

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

Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 A42015

Printed
NeedieNeedy.
With rule
NeedieNeedy.
William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 · p. 296 · Open in the reader