Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4771 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bewaylingbewailing

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

Puritas changed it: 191 times in 148 works
Consistency: 100% (191 of 191)
Reach if approved: ~201 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bewailing
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 191 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (191 changes in 148 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 191)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… part from their sleepe; here is worldly sorrow; now a dramme of godly sorrow, bewaylingbewailing sinne, would weight downe a talent of this. Thirdly, Gods Spirit is another principall …
With rule
… part from their sleepe; here is worldly sorrow; now a dramme of godly sorrow, bewaylingbewailing sinne, would weight downe a talent of this. Thirdly, Gods Spirit is another principall …
Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
To repent of sinne, by bewaylingbewailing, confessing and forsaking it. Cant. 6, 12. Returne, Returne, O Shulamite, Returne.
With rule
To repent of sinne, by bewaylingbewailing, confessing and forsaking it. Cant. 6, 12. Returne, Returne, O Shulamite, Returne.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 196 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it, he heartily bewailes and confesseth it, and prayeth against it: which humility, which bewaylingbewailing and confessing of his spirituall misery, is no lesse an infallible signe of a …
With rule
… it, he heartily bewailes and confesseth it, and prayeth against it: which humility, which bewaylingbewailing and confessing of his spirituall misery, is no lesse an infallible signe of a …
Henry Burton · The Christians Bulwark · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Law of God, and yet beare a good heart towards God and his Law, bewaylingbewailing our imbicilitie, that we can do him no further pleaſure, then will God recount …
With rule
… Law of God, and yet beare a good heart towards God and his Law, bewaylingbewailing our imbicilitie, that we can do him no further pleaſure, then will God recount …
Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · p. 448 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Preacher at Breame, that hee exhorted diuers of his friendes at Antwerpe by letters, bewaylingbewailing their ignorance.
With rule
… Preacher at Breame, that hee exhorted diuers of his friendes at Antwerpe by letters, bewaylingbewailing their ignorance.
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 469 · Open in the reader
Printed
… state) smiting vpon the thigh , Peter weeping bitterly , the father of the possessed child bewaylingbewailing his vnbeleefe , Marie Magdalene washing Christs feete with teares Paul crying out, O wretched …
With rule
… state) smiting vpon the thigh , Peter weeping bitterly , the father of the possessed child bewaylingbewailing his vnbeleefe , Marie Magdalene washing Christs feete with teares Paul crying out, O wretched …
Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons 2 · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wee are to ſet forth our faith herein. The firſt is godly ſorrow, in bewaylingbewailing our ſinnes, the onely cauſe of theſe great ſufferings of our deere Sauiour. The …
With rule
… wee are to ſet forth our faith herein. The firſt is godly ſorrow, in bewaylingbewailing our ſinnes, the onely cauſe of theſe great ſufferings of our deere Sauiour. The …
John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thy more vrgent and retired prayers, of humbling thy selfe before thy God, of bewaylingbewailing the calamities, the stones, the dust of Sion, of deprecating and repelling approching Iudgements …
With rule
… thy more vrgent and retired prayers, of humbling thy selfe before thy God, of bewaylingbewailing the calamities, the stones, the dust of Sion, of deprecating and repelling approching Iudgements …
Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 74 · 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.