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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4784 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

crymecrime

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

Puritas changed it
198 times in 83 works
Consistency
99.5% (198 of 199)
Reach if approved
~209 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: crime
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
199 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (198 changes in 83 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 198)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … that whan we haue cōsydered the spending of the daye, we perceyue no notable crymecrime & heynous faulte commytted neyther agaynst God, nor our neighbour, than let vs reioyse, gyue …
    With rule
    … that whan we haue cōsydered the spending of the daye, we perceyue no notable crymecrime & heynous faulte commytted neyther agaynst God, nor our neighbour, than let vs reioyse, gyue …

    Thomas Becon · A New Pathway Unto Prayer · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … incest, vnlesse hee had thought it lawfull for adulterie; Neither did hee consider the crymecrime but as comprised vnder adulterie too: Whereof (in a generall sense meant by the …
    With rule
    … incest, vnlesse hee had thought it lawfull for adulterie; Neither did hee consider the crymecrime but as comprised vnder adulterie too: Whereof (in a generall sense meant by the …

    John Rainolds · Defense of Divorce and Remarriage · p. 44 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Who ſo euer dothe this / ſhall be gyltye of that crymecrime / of whiche Paule accuſeth Peter / in the epyſtle to the Galatyans. For Peter whyles …
    With rule
    Who ſo euer dothe this / ſhall be gyltye of that crymecrime / of whiche Paule accuſeth Peter / in the epyſtle to the Galatyans. For Peter whyles …

    Martin Bucer · Images Not to be Suffered in Churches · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … knoweth to be an innocent, or to puniſh him which is conuicte of hys crymecrime. It auayleth nothing to waſh the hands with water, whē as the conſcience within …
    With rule
    … knoweth to be an innocent, or to puniſh him which is conuicte of hys crymecrime. It auayleth nothing to waſh the hands with water, whē as the conſcience within …

    Ulrich Zwingli · The Death Resurrection and Ascension of Christ · p. 119 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … homicide, a ſorcerer or ten tymes pariured, he thinketh himſelfe not culpable of any crymecrime, therefore the ſacrifices which they vſe, are of force, they thinke to blotte out …
    With rule
    … homicide, a ſorcerer or ten tymes pariured, he thinketh himſelfe not culpable of any crymecrime, therefore the ſacrifices which they vſe, are of force, they thinke to blotte out …

    John Calvin · Daily Sermons Upon Jonah · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    OH what a capitall crymecrime is here committed, that I haue englished this word (conficere) to do, whose proper …
    With rule
    OH what a capitall crymecrime is here committed, that I haue englished this word (conficere) to do, whose proper …

    Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation · p. 344 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the offence was cōmitted, wher also might be both accusers and witnesses of the crymecrime. And for this cause it was decreed further: That to euery pastor some particular …
    With rule
    … the offence was cōmitted, wher also might be both accusers and witnesses of the crymecrime. And for this cause it was decreed further: That to euery pastor some particular …

    John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … same offender, most certen it is, that before God he can not auoid the crymecrime of murther.
    With rule
    … same offender, most certen it is, that before God he can not auoid the crymecrime of murther.

    John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 179 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

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