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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4723 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

metonymiemetonymy

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

Puritas changed it
471 times in 189 works
Consistency
100% (471 of 471)
Reach if approved
~495 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: metonymy
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
471 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (471 changes in 189 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 471)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … bright Clouds]. If we take it for lightnings, it muſt be underſtood by a MetonymieMetonymy of the adjunct, Raine being a uſuall concomitant of lightning and thunder, though alſo …
    With rule
    … bright Clouds]. If we take it for lightnings, it muſt be underſtood by a MetonymieMetonymy of the adjunct, Raine being a uſuall concomitant of lightning and thunder, though alſo …

    William Pemble · Exposition of Zechariah 1-9 · p. 163 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ſenſe and meaning. As where it is ſaide (this is my body) by the MetonymieMetonymy, which is in the word body, the ſpirit ſpeaketh more ſignificantly, then if he …
    With rule
    … ſenſe and meaning. As where it is ſaide (this is my body) by the MetonymieMetonymy, which is in the word body, the ſpirit ſpeaketh more ſignificantly, then if he …

    Robert Rollock · Gods Effectual Calling · p. 64 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … what letteth but that we may as lawfully thinke that he vſed the vſual MetonymieMetonymy vſed in all other Sacraments, in giuing the names of body & blood to bread …
    With rule
    … what letteth but that we may as lawfully thinke that he vſed the vſual MetonymieMetonymy vſed in all other Sacraments, in giuing the names of body & blood to bread …

    Thomas Sparke · The Highway to Heaven · p. 243 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Genes. interrog. 269. Anselmus Laudunensis in the interlineary Glosse, Lyranus and others) or by a MetonymieMetonymy, whereby that which is contayned is put for that which doth containe it; for …
    With rule
    … Genes. interrog. 269. Anselmus Laudunensis in the interlineary Glosse, Lyranus and others) or by a MetonymieMetonymy, whereby that which is contayned is put for that which doth containe it; for …

    James Ussher · Answer to a Jesuit in Ireland · p. 305 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … that ſuch workes of mercy are proper acts of Religion ; and therefore by a MetonymieMetonymy of the effect for the cauſe they are termed Pietie.
    With rule
    … that ſuch workes of mercy are proper acts of Religion ; and therefore by a MetonymieMetonymy of the effect for the cauſe they are termed Pietie.

    Cornelius Burges · A Chain of Graces Drawn Out for Reformation of Manners · p. 161 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of invocation whereby we crave any thing at the hands of God. By a MetonymieMetonymy of the signe it is sometimes called the lifting up of the hands, Psal …
    With rule
    … of invocation whereby we crave any thing at the hands of God. By a MetonymieMetonymy of the signe it is sometimes called the lifting up of the hands, Psal …

    George Downame · A Godly and Learned Treatise of Prayer · p. 2 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    From heauen.] That is, from God. A MetonymieMetonymy of the subiect: as Hell is put for the Diuell, Iam. 2. The force of …
    With rule
    From heauen.] That is, from God. A MetonymieMetonymy of the subiect: as Hell is put for the Diuell, Iam. 2. The force of …

    Daniel Dyke · Six Evangelical Histories of Water Turned into Wine · p. 216 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … as hadde openly fallen, was in the primitiue church, not onely called, foreign, by a metonymiemetonymy, but also, that the worde of satisfaction was vsed, not that they had anye …
    With rule
    … as hadde openly fallen, was in the primitiue church, not onely called, foreign, by a metonymiemetonymy, but also, that the worde of satisfaction was vsed, not that they had anye …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 359 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

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