Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4869 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

agonieagony

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

Puritas changed it: 480 times in 229 works
Consistency: 100% (480 of 480)
Reach if approved: ~504 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: agony
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 480 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (480 changes in 229 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 480)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſeauen times a day, and at midnight. Chriſt prayed three times together in his agonieagony.
With rule
… ſeauen times a day, and at midnight. Chriſt prayed three times together in his agonieagony.
John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 421 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of God, as when he said, my soule is heavy vnto death: and his agonieagony was not so much a paine and torment in bodie, as the apprehension of …
With rule
… of God, as when he said, my soule is heavy vnto death: and his agonieagony was not so much a paine and torment in bodie, as the apprehension of …
William Perkins · Conscience · p. 160 · Open in the reader
Printed
… attained ſecuritie! They looke on the poore, and their life is lead in ſuch agonieagony, contempt, and needines, that it maketh euery one to loathe it. They behold the …
With rule
… attained ſecuritie! They looke on the poore, and their life is lead in ſuch agonieagony, contempt, and needines, that it maketh euery one to loathe it. They behold the …
Gabriel Powel · The Resolved Christian Exhorting to Resolution · p. 236 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in His ſoule, was that vvhich Luke in his tvventieth tvvo Chapter names an agonieagony, that is, an anguiſh in the ſoule, and an heauie paine proceeding from a …
With rule
… in His ſoule, was that vvhich Luke in his tvventieth tvvo Chapter names an agonieagony, that is, an anguiſh in the ſoule, and an heauie paine proceeding from a …
Robert Rollock · The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 179 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and thrée things there are in my ſpéech which haue caſt ye into this agonieagony: the firſt, that (as you ſay) our Churches ſtand vnder an apparant heauie yoke …
With rule
… and thrée things there are in my ſpéech which haue caſt ye into this agonieagony: the firſt, that (as you ſay) our Churches ſtand vnder an apparant heauie yoke …
George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · p. 83 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a chiefe pollicie of a godly Christian, not onely to seeke comfort when the agonieagony is vpon him, but also to vse all good helpes to meet… with it …
With rule
… a chiefe pollicie of a godly Christian, not onely to seeke comfort when the agonieagony is vpon him, but also to vse all good helpes to meet… with it …
Richard Greenham · Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and trouble the whole estate of man; as thogh he were takin with sum agonieagony, or sharp fevar. It is true, that every man whome the Lord so visits …
With rule
… and trouble the whole estate of man; as thogh he were takin with sum agonieagony, or sharp fevar. It is true, that every man whome the Lord so visits …
Alexander Hume · Treatise of Conscience Wherein Divers Secrets are Discovered · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Dauid said of himselfe, there is but a step betvveene them & death. In this agonieagony of death vvith teares & groanes vvee cry to you right Honourable, save us, or …
With rule
… Dauid said of himselfe, there is but a step betvveene them & death. In this agonieagony of death vvith teares & groanes vvee cry to you right Honourable, save us, or …
Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · 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.