Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4847 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

thorniethorny

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

Puritas changed it: 155 times in 107 works
Consistency: 97.4% (155 of 159)
Reach if approved: ~167 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: thorny
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 159 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (155 changes in 107 works, 97.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 155)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… there hee will make a stand, when he comes to thick way, or to thorniethorny way, or to rough way, there hee will not runne; and why? because patience …
With rule
… there hee will make a stand, when he comes to thick way, or to thorniethorny way, or to rough way, there hee will not runne; and why? because patience …
John Preston · The New Covenant · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… an oven of smoke, but as a crowne of thornes, Mat. 27. 29. is resolved, a thorniethorny crowne, Mar. 15. 17. so this here as the Greeke translateth it a smoking oven, or …
With rule
… an oven of smoke, but as a crowne of thornes, Mat. 27. 29. is resolved, a thorniethorny crowne, Mar. 15. 17. so this here as the Greeke translateth it a smoking oven, or …
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
It is a safe course through this thorniethorny world, to haue no medling, but necessar: And then not to prouo…ke mens …
With rule
It is a safe course through this thorniethorny world, to haue no medling, but necessar: And then not to prouo…ke mens …
William Struther · Christian Observations and Resolutions · p. 195 · Open in the reader
Printed
Laſtly, this ſhall direct all thy paths, and wiſely conduct thee through this thorniethorny life; it will cauſe thee thinke well, ſpeake well, and liue well, and furniſheth …
With rule
Laſtly, this ſhall direct all thy paths, and wiſely conduct thee through this thorniethorny life; it will cauſe thee thinke well, ſpeake well, and liue well, and furniſheth …
William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader
Printed
… knoweth mee. It is not appertinent, neither is it expedient to enter into these thorniethorny speculations, howe the father knoweth his wisedome: because that Christ doth simplie make hymselfe …
With rule
… knoweth mee. It is not appertinent, neither is it expedient to enter into these thorniethorny speculations, howe the father knoweth his wisedome: because that Christ doth simplie make hymselfe …
John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 247 · Open in the reader
Printed
… where they ſticke not to tell him to his face that his wayes were thorniethorny, and (as it were) full of briars: it is not hard to iudge whether …
With rule
… where they ſticke not to tell him to his face that his wayes were thorniethorny, and (as it were) full of briars: it is not hard to iudge whether …
John Calvin · Lectures on Jeremiah · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… well that which is ſayde héere, both of the ſtonie and alſo of the thorniethorny ground, how farre they procéede in profeſſing Chriſt, and imbracing his Goſpell: and we …
With rule
… well that which is ſayde héere, both of the ſtonie and alſo of the thorniethorny ground, how farre they procéede in profeſſing Chriſt, and imbracing his Goſpell: and we …
George Gifford · Sermon on the Parable of the Sower · Open in the reader
Printed
… but thinne and rare, because little or no heed is taken of the stonie, thorniethorny, and high-way hearers. How often is attention commanded and commended vnto vs by …
With rule
… but thinne and rare, because little or no heed is taken of the stonie, thorniethorny, and high-way hearers. How often is attention commanded and commended vnto vs by …
Robert Mandevill · Timothys Task · p. 3 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs A11649

Printed
… Exod. 16. 1. Ezek. 30. 15, 16. This desart of Zin, seemeth to be so named as being a ThornieThorny wildernesse; for Zinnim (in the forme plurall) signifieth thornes, Iob 5. 5. And as the former …
With rule
… Exod. 16. 1. Ezek. 30. 15, 16. This desart of Zin, seemeth to be so named as being a ThornieThorny wildernesse; for Zinnim (in the forme plurall) signifieth thornes, Iob 5. 5. And as the former …
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 80 · Open in the reader