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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4722 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

malachiemalachi

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

Puritas changed it
571 times in 220 works
Consistency
98.4% (571 of 580)
Reach if approved
~609 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: malachy
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
580 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (571 changes in 220 works, 98.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 571)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … their Masse, by telling vs that this is that cleane hoast, that Irenaeus saith MalachieMalachi foretold; the Christians onely sacrifice figured by that of Melchisedeck; and represented by the …
    With rule
    … their Masse, by telling vs that this is that cleane hoast, that Irenaeus saith MalachieMalachi foretold; the Christians onely sacrifice figured by that of Melchisedeck; and represented by the …

    Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 198 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … nor the …ord from the Prophet. And there…re from the lyke words in MalachieMalachi 2.…. which the Papiſts would haue thus, The Priests lips ſhall preſerue knowledge, and they …
    With rule
    … nor the …ord from the Prophet. And there…re from the lyke words in MalachieMalachi 2.…. which the Papiſts would haue thus, The Priests lips ſhall preſerue knowledge, and they …

    William Guild · A Compend of the Controversies of Religion · p. 42 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … kill shepe and bullockes. Ieremie crieth for teares and lamentation, they laughe and mock. MalachieMalachi crieth to the people of his tyme, Turne vnto me ād I will turne …
    With rule
    … kill shepe and bullockes. Ieremie crieth for teares and lamentation, they laughe and mock. MalachieMalachi crieth to the people of his tyme, Turne vnto me ād I will turne …

    John Knox · Appellation from the Cruel and Unjust Sentence Against Him · p. 63 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … onely not looſe, but gaine much to our ſelues. For rhis cauſe the prophet MalachieMalachi ſpeaketh thus to the people of Iſraell, bring your tithes into the treaſure houſe …
    With rule
    … onely not looſe, but gaine much to our ſelues. For rhis cauſe the prophet MalachieMalachi ſpeaketh thus to the people of Iſraell, bring your tithes into the treaſure houſe …

    Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Your words haue beene stout against me] saith the Lord to the Iewes in MalachieMalachi his time. Mal. 3. 13. 14. [and wherein had they spoken stubbornelie against him? Ye haue said …
    With rule
    … Your words haue beene stout against me] saith the Lord to the Iewes in MalachieMalachi his time. Mal. 3. 13. 14. [and wherein had they spoken stubbornelie against him? Ye haue said …

    William Pemble · Five Godly and Profitable Sermons · p. 57 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … studie and meditation to haue the same digested and setled in his heart. Hence MalachieMalachi saith The priests lippes should preserue wisedome, and thither should the people come for …
    With rule
    … studie and meditation to haue the same digested and setled in his heart. Hence MalachieMalachi saith The priests lippes should preserue wisedome, and thither should the people come for …

    William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · p. 79 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Why? Because the text of the Prophet MalachieMalachi saith that there is offered a cleane oblation, or offering, as you call it …
    With rule
    Why? Because the text of the Prophet MalachieMalachi saith that there is offered a cleane oblation, or offering, as you call it …

    John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 563 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … somewhat vnlike, but the sense is all one, nothing differyng from the saying of MalachieMalachi, I haue no pleasure in you, &c. Doest thou not perceyue in these woordes …
    With rule
    … somewhat vnlike, but the sense is all one, nothing differyng from the saying of MalachieMalachi, I haue no pleasure in you, &c. Doest thou not perceyue in these woordes …

    John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

3 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.

An Advertisement of Corruption in our Handling of Religion A16951

  • Printed
    MAlachieMalachi prophecieth after the Temple was built, and not with Aggei & Zacharie. For Ezra would …
    With rule
    MAlachieMalachi prophecieth after the Temple was built, and not with Aggei & Zacharie. For Ezra would …

    Hugh Broughton · An Advertisement of Corruption in our Handling of Religion · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

  • Printed
    … to be our father and Sauiour, as I alledged out of the text of malachiemalachi, and as is yet better expressed in this verse of the psalme, that wee …
    With rule
    … to be our father and Sauiour, as I alledged out of the text of malachiemalachi, and as is yet better expressed in this verse of the psalme, that wee …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 275 · Open in the reader

The Subtle Sophistry of Watsons Sermons before Queen Mary A19670

  • Printed
    MALACHIEMALACHI. ca. 1.
    With rule
    MALACHIEMALACHI. ca. 1.

    Robert Crowley · The Subtle Sophistry of Watsons Sermons before Queen Mary · Open in the reader