Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4765 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

annoyntannoint

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

Puritas changed it: 157 times in 90 works
Consistency: 98.1% (157 of 160)
Reach if approved: ~168 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: anoint
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 160 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (157 changes in 90 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 157)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… enter into thy narrow iudgement with mee . But ſweet Lord haue compaſſion vpon mee , annoyntannoint my wounds with the oyle of thy mercy , reſtore my ſight , clothe my nakedneſſe …
With rule
… enter into thy narrow iudgement with mee . But ſweet Lord haue compaſſion vpon mee , annoyntannoint my wounds with the oyle of thy mercy , reſtore my ſight , clothe my nakedneſſe …
John Andrewes · Humble Petition Unto Almighty God · Open in the reader
Printed
27 It is falſe that we ſay, That the precept to annoyntannoint the ſicke with oyle, whereof S. Iames ſpeaketh, ought not to be practiſed in …
With rule
27 It is falſe that we ſay, That the precept to annoyntannoint the ſicke with oyle, whereof S. Iames ſpeaketh, ought not to be practiſed in …
Pierre du Moulin Sr · The Jesuits Shifts and Evasions · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Messias, and is sayd to haue beene anoynted by God. But, as to annoyntannoint is there put for solemnly to set apart and appoynt, where yet there is …
With rule
… and Messias, and is sayd to haue beene anoynted by God. But, as to annoyntannoint is there put for solemnly to set apart and appoynt, where yet there is …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Hytherto haue I rehearsed y^e wordes of Chrisostom, wherby ye may learne, that to annoyntannoint our head, is none other thynge than to shew oure selues beneficiall to the …
With rule
… Hytherto haue I rehearsed y^e wordes of Chrisostom, wherby ye may learne, that to annoyntannoint our head, is none other thynge than to shew oure selues beneficiall to the …
Thomas Becon · A Potion for This Holy Time of Lent · Open in the reader
Printed
… washing themselues in a Poole appointed to that end. These yong men did not annoyntannoint their heads and bodies with Petum, as the Priests did. This austeritie continued a …
With rule
… washing themselues in a Poole appointed to that end. These yong men did not annoyntannoint their heads and bodies with Petum, as the Priests did. This austeritie continued a …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 672 · Open in the reader
Printed
… violl, and inuent to themſelues inſtruments of muſicke, that drinke wine in bolles, and annoyntannoint themſelues with the beſt oyntments, and in the meane time are not ſorrie for …
With rule
… violl, and inuent to themſelues inſtruments of muſicke, that drinke wine in bolles, and annoyntannoint themſelues with the beſt oyntments, and in the meane time are not ſorrie for …
Henry Airay · Lectures Upon Philippians · p. 755 · Open in the reader
Printed
Remaine of those he did annoyntannoint;
With rule
Remaine of those he did annoyntannoint;
George Wither · The Hymns and Songs of the Church · p. 174 · Open in the reader
Printed
… declared by the very Angels of God to certaine deuout women, which came to annoyntannoint the body of our Lorde Ieſus. Foorthwith the ſame is made knowen to Peter …
With rule
… declared by the very Angels of God to certaine deuout women, which came to annoyntannoint the body of our Lorde Ieſus. Foorthwith the ſame is made knowen to Peter …
Henrich Bullinger · The Sum of the Four Evangelists · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

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

Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount A09432

Printed
… God, which must be obserued in all religious fasts, as well publike as priuate. AnnoyntAnnoint thine head, & wash thy face: Here Christ alludeth to the custom of the Iewes …
With rule
… God, which must be obserued in all religious fasts, as well publike as priuate. AnnoyntAnnoint thine head, & wash thy face: Here Christ alludeth to the custom of the Iewes …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 337 · Open in the reader