Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4681 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

boysterousboisterous

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

Puritas changed it: 385 times in 266 works
Consistency: 97.9% (385 of 393)
Reach if approved: ~413 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: boisterous
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 393 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (385 changes in 266 works, 97.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 385)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… sons of solace to the tender conscience, and the sonnes of thunder to a boysterousboisterous and bigboned Nimrod: In a word, becomming all to all, that they may winne …
With rule
… sons of solace to the tender conscience, and the sonnes of thunder to a boysterousboisterous and bigboned Nimrod: In a word, becomming all to all, that they may winne …
William Loe · A Still Voice · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
Charitie doeth couer malice, enuie and hatred doeth vncouer as the boyſterousboisterous Northwinde all imperfections, and naturally men are giuen to prie in at other mens …
With rule
Charitie doeth couer malice, enuie and hatred doeth vncouer as the boyſterousboisterous Northwinde all imperfections, and naturally men are giuen to prie in at other mens …
John Prime · The Sacraments Generally and of Baptism and the Supper · Open in the reader
Printed
… hope to looke so gracious a Saviour in the face: they that are so boysterousboisterous towards his Spouse, shall know one day they had to deale with himselfe in …
With rule
… hope to looke so gracious a Saviour in the face: they that are so boysterousboisterous towards his Spouse, shall know one day they had to deale with himselfe in …
Richard Sibbes · The Bruised Reed · p. 195 · Open in the reader
Printed
2. When I see a boysterousboisterous winde, and tempest arise, and carry away light things; as feathers, straw, chaffe: I …
With rule
2. When I see a boysterousboisterous winde, and tempest arise, and carry away light things; as feathers, straw, chaffe: I …
Thomas Taylor · A Man in Christ · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… caused the wayfaring man to lay aside his garments, which the wind with his boysterousboisterous blasts could not plucke from him. So married couples should seeke to win one …
With rule
… caused the wayfaring man to lay aside his garments, which the wind with his boysterousboisterous blasts could not plucke from him. So married couples should seeke to win one …
Andrew Willet · Solomons Marriage · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… meant not 70. but 80. ſeuens. His dealyng is ſtrange: ſtrangeneſſe yet herein made ſome men boyſterousboisterous: But the aged and learned knew before, how in the ende the matter would …
With rule
… meant not 70. but 80. ſeuens. His dealyng is ſtrange: ſtrangeneſſe yet herein made ſome men boyſterousboisterous: But the aged and learned knew before, how in the ende the matter would …
Hugh Broughton · An Apology in Brief Assertions · Open in the reader
Printed
… and the abstinence from meates, howsoeuer the papistes will not seeme to be so boysterousboisterous as Eustachius in denying the kingdome of heauen to them that marry, and hope …
With rule
… and the abstinence from meates, howsoeuer the papistes will not seeme to be so boysterousboisterous as Eustachius in denying the kingdome of heauen to them that marry, and hope …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are ſuch that they can beare out the waves, be the ſea never ſo boyſterousboisterous, there is hope of ſafetie, but if the ſea breake all before it, there …
With rule
… are ſuch that they can beare out the waves, be the ſea never ſo boyſterousboisterous, there is hope of ſafetie, but if the ſea breake all before it, there …
Thomas Hooker · Four Learned and Godly Treatises · p. 164 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Answer to Granthams Book A41319

Printed
… ſome Readers will think I have not been ſharp enough againſt ſuch a confident BoyſterousBoisterous perſon.
With rule
… ſome Readers will think I have not been ſharp enough againſt ſuch a confident BoyſterousBoisterous perſon.
Martin Finch · Answer to Granthams Book · Open in the reader

Exposition of Job A45240

Printed
10, BoyſterousBoisterous willfulneſs is an ordinary diſtemper of Saints under tentation, and an addition to their …
With rule
10, BoyſterousBoisterous willfulneſs is an ordinary diſtemper of Saints under tentation, and an addition to their …
George Hutcheson · Exposition of Job · p. 490 · Open in the reader