Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4659 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

staiedstayed

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

Puritas changed it: 826 times in 345 works
Consistency: 100% (826 of 826)
Reach if approved: ~868 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stayed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 826 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (826 changes in 345 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 826)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and honest conuersation, soght y^e next remedie that to him appered able to haue staiedstayed the rage of that furious multitude (vpon God I grāt falleth no such necessitie …
With rule
… and honest conuersation, soght y^e next remedie that to him appered able to haue staiedstayed the rage of that furious multitude (vpon God I grāt falleth no such necessitie …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 353 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wais as she beleued, she begā to be better, & the issue of bloud was staiedstayed, where as before she had proued all things, ye & that with great losse of …
With rule
… wais as she beleued, she begā to be better, & the issue of bloud was staiedstayed, where as before she had proued all things, ye & that with great losse of …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader
Printed
… inckling, I trauelled to ſome in authoritie, and by labouring with them gat it ſtaiedstayed not to be printed in Londō: yet it comming forth, they printing it otherwhere …
With rule
… inckling, I trauelled to ſome in authoritie, and by labouring with them gat it ſtaiedstayed not to be printed in Londō: yet it comming forth, they printing it otherwhere …
Eusebius Pagit · The History of the Bible · Open in the reader
Printed
… strong, must consider that they were once weake: old men that are graue and staiedstayed, must call to mind that once they were in the heat of their youth …
With rule
… strong, must consider that they were once weake: old men that are graue and staiedstayed, must call to mind that once they were in the heat of their youth …
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 468 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vpon him, and fasted, and went softly in token of mourning: and this humiliation staiedstayed Gods wrath for a time.
With rule
… vpon him, and fasted, and went softly in token of mourning: and this humiliation staiedstayed Gods wrath for a time.
William Perkins · Whether Man Be in the Estate of Damnation or Grace · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
Therefore the heauen ouer you is staiedstayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. verse 10.
With rule
Therefore the heauen ouer you is staiedstayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. verse 10.
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 203 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it to be preserved from Sinne, Shame, and Reproach, and to have their mindes staiedstayed in the instant of Tentation. For, who hath given such a vertue to that …
With rule
… it to be preserved from Sinne, Shame, and Reproach, and to have their mindes staiedstayed in the instant of Tentation. For, who hath given such a vertue to that …
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the dispositiō of the wil, are in the power therof to be performed or staiedstayed. Finally appetite is the wils sollicitor, and the will is appetites controller; what we …
With rule
… the dispositiō of the wil, are in the power therof to be performed or staiedstayed. Finally appetite is the wils sollicitor, and the will is appetites controller; what we …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 57 · Open in the reader

Read-only. Sign in as a reviewer to approve or dismiss candidates.

Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.