Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4660 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stoniestony

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

Puritas changed it: 422 times in 229 works
Consistency: 98.6% (422 of 428)
Reach if approved: ~450 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stony
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 428 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (422 changes in 229 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 422)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… this our martalitie. If you dare say that gods will in taking away the stoniestony hearte and in giuing the fleshie hearte, be nothing elles but onely a permission …
With rule
… this our martalitie. If you dare say that gods will in taking away the stoniestony hearte and in giuing the fleshie hearte, be nothing elles but onely a permission …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 308 · Open in the reader
Printed
… out of our Sauiours parable, viz. first, That Temporisers receiue the seede in a stoniestony, but true beleevers in a good ground, id est, in an honest and good …
With rule
… out of our Sauiours parable, viz. first, That Temporisers receiue the seede in a stoniestony, but true beleevers in a good ground, id est, in an honest and good …
Thomas Bedford · The Sin Unto Death · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… droſſe I graunt, as al the ſonnes of Adam are by nature, and verie ſtoniestony harted. But the word of God is a fire for the droſſe and an …
With rule
… droſſe I graunt, as al the ſonnes of Adam are by nature, and verie ſtoniestony harted. But the word of God is a fire for the droſſe and an …
John Penry · Equity of a Humble Supplication · Open in the reader
Printed
… cleaue vnto Christ Iesus for euer. Which appeareth in that they are compared to stoniestony grounde. Now, stony groundes mingled with some earth are commonly hot, and therefore haue …
With rule
… cleaue vnto Christ Iesus for euer. Which appeareth in that they are compared to stoniestony grounde. Now, stony groundes mingled with some earth are commonly hot, and therefore haue …
William Perkins · Whether Man Be in the Estate of Damnation or Grace · Open in the reader
Printed
… a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stoniestony heart out of your flesh, and I will giue you an heart of flesh …
With rule
… a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stoniestony heart out of your flesh, and I will giue you an heart of flesh …
William Prynne · The Church of Englands Antithesis to Arminianism · p. 102 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in earth. So Matt. The ſeede is deuided by the place: Some fell in ſtoniestony grounde, ſome in thornie grounde, ſome in the high way. So for the adiointes …
With rule
… in earth. So Matt. The ſeede is deuided by the place: Some fell in ſtoniestony grounde, ſome in thornie grounde, ſome in the high way. So for the adiointes …
Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader
Printed
… ād ſubuertiō of the whole Realme daylie approchinge, can once moue your harde ād ſtoniestony hartes with pitie to defende their cauſe, and delyuer them frō tyranny: beinge promoted …
With rule
… ād ſubuertiō of the whole Realme daylie approchinge, can once moue your harde ād ſtoniestony hartes with pitie to defende their cauſe, and delyuer them frō tyranny: beinge promoted …
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 91 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be pleaſed to put a new ſpirit within mens bowels, and to take the ſtoniestony heart out of their bodies, there is nothing that they do hate more, then …
With rule
… be pleaſed to put a new ſpirit within mens bowels, and to take the ſtoniestony heart out of their bodies, there is nothing that they do hate more, then …
Samuel Hieron · The Preachers Plea · p. 205 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

1 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.

Paradise Lost A50919

Printed
Brass, Iron, StonieStony mould, had not thir mouthes
With rule
Brass, Iron, StonieStony mould, had not thir mouthes
John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader