Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4720 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lyestliest

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

Puritas changed it: 381 times in 290 works
Consistency: 98.9% (381 of 385)
Reach if approved: ~405 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: liest
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 385 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (381 changes in 290 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 381)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… hearkening to him, that He checks him for it, Verse 13. Get thee up, wherefore lyestliest thou thus upon thy face? Israel hath sinned, and shall never stand before their …
With rule
… hearkening to him, that He checks him for it, Verse 13. Get thee up, wherefore lyestliest thou thus upon thy face? Israel hath sinned, and shall never stand before their …
Arthur Hildersham · The Doctrine of Fasting and Prayer · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… peale of thine abhominations in thy eares? thou a good conſcience; when thou ſweareſt, lyeſtliest, cheateſt, playeſt the vnmercifull, incontinent, intemperate beaſt, ſlandereſt thy neighbour; ſitteſt and ſpeakeſt againſt …
With rule
… peale of thine abhominations in thy eares? thou a good conſcience; when thou ſweareſt, lyeſtliest, cheateſt, playeſt the vnmercifull, incontinent, intemperate beaſt, ſlandereſt thy neighbour; ſitteſt and ſpeakeſt againſt …
Thomas Barnes · The Court of Conscience · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Lord: Seeing thou doest so arrogantly presume vppon these thinges as thyne owne, thou lyestliest. And for a token hereof I will cause that thy children shall dye, or …
With rule
… Lord: Seeing thou doest so arrogantly presume vppon these thinges as thyne owne, thou lyestliest. And for a token hereof I will cause that thy children shall dye, or …
Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 146 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he may by law diſtraine vpō all thy goods, the very bed whereon thou lyeſtliest not excepted.
With rule
… he may by law diſtraine vpō all thy goods, the very bed whereon thou lyeſtliest not excepted.
Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 195 · Open in the reader
Printed
… heart that hates vncleannesse, or whether thou hast yet a swinish disposition, that thou lyestliest in the mud, and delightest to lye in it.
With rule
… heart that hates vncleannesse, or whether thou hast yet a swinish disposition, that thou lyestliest in the mud, and delightest to lye in it.
John Preston · The New Covenant · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest in the way, and when thou lyestliest downe, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the doore …
With rule
… sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest in the way, and when thou lyestliest downe, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the doore …
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſitteſt in thine houſe, and when thou walkeſt by the way, and when thou lyeſtliest downe, and when thou riſeſt vp.
With rule
… ſitteſt in thine houſe, and when thou walkeſt by the way, and when thou lyeſtliest downe, and when thou riſeſt vp.
Francis Trigge · The True Catholic · p. 542 · Open in the reader
Printed
… afterward, thou wilt be knowen of all men, and in the meane season thou lyestliest hid, If thou doest these things, that is, if thou doest desire such honour …
With rule
… afterward, thou wilt be knowen of all men, and in the meane season thou lyestliest hid, If thou doest these things, that is, if thou doest desire such honour …
John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 168 · 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.

George Fox Digged Out of His Burrows A66448

Printed
… Reproofs, Similitudes &c. but thus suddenly at the first dash to give fire Thou LyestLiest, That is a Lye &c. It shews neither Religion nor Civility but a Barbarous …
With rule
… Reproofs, Similitudes &c. but thus suddenly at the first dash to give fire Thou LyestLiest, That is a Lye &c. It shews neither Religion nor Civility but a Barbarous …
Roger Williams · George Fox Digged Out of His Burrows · p. 305 · Open in the reader