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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4892 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

decaiesdecays

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

Puritas changed it
205 times in 137 works
Consistency
97.1% (205 of 211)
Reach if approved
~222 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: decays
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
211 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (205 changes in 137 works, 97.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 205)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … withers, for though he had no fruit, yet he had leaves, and all this decaiesdecays; and laſtly, he is cast into the fire to be burnt. The other kinde …
    With rule
    … withers, for though he had no fruit, yet he had leaves, and all this decaiesdecays; and laſtly, he is cast into the fire to be burnt. The other kinde …

    Anthony Burgess · Spiritual Refining · p. 84 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    3. When it is repaired from former decaiesdecays.
    With rule
    3. When it is repaired from former decaiesdecays.

    Robert Hill · Christs Prayer Expounded · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … continually serued God in fasting and praier beeing 80. yeares old. When the outward man decaiesdecays, the inward man should be renewed. I speake all this the rather, because aged …
    With rule
    … continually serued God in fasting and praier beeing 80. yeares old. When the outward man decaiesdecays, the inward man should be renewed. I speake all this the rather, because aged …

    William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 167 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … alſo Typically prognoſticall of things to come? I dare not bee ouer confident; memory decaiesdecays as age growes, and I am ſuddenned to addreſſe this anſwer to you. But …
    With rule
    … alſo Typically prognoſticall of things to come? I dare not bee ouer confident; memory decaiesdecays as age growes, and I am ſuddenned to addreſſe this anſwer to you. But …

    William Sclater · The Question of Tithes · p. 82 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Fifthlie, there is ſik ane vniuerſall complaint of the monſtrous abhominations and decaiesdecays in your Religion, diſcipline, & manners, & that by your owne councels, Fathers, Popes, Cardinals, & Fryars …
    With rule
    Fifthlie, there is ſik ane vniuerſall complaint of the monſtrous abhominations and decaiesdecays in your Religion, diſcipline, & manners, & that by your owne councels, Fathers, Popes, Cardinals, & Fryars …

    John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … from the birth, and from the wombe, and from the conception, Hosh. 9.11. 3. That man decaiesdecays insensibly, he goes away by degrees, both in his body and honor, he declineth …
    With rule
    … from the birth, and from the wombe, and from the conception, Hosh. 9.11. 3. That man decaiesdecays insensibly, he goes away by degrees, both in his body and honor, he declineth …

    Nicholas Byfield · A Commentary on 1 Peter 1-3 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Ioy of a soules arriuall neere decaiesdecays;
    With rule
    Ioy of a soules arriuall neere decaiesdecays;

    John Donne · The First Anniversary · p. 45 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … to the attemt, which was set on foot there for the repairing of those decaiesdecays and ruins which had bin made by the late Vsurpers; for however those Godly …
    With rule
    … to the attemt, which was set on foot there for the repairing of those decaiesdecays and ruins which had bin made by the late Vsurpers; for however those Godly …

    Richard Allestree · Forty Sermons · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition of 2 Thessalonians A11588

  • Printed
    DecaiesDecays in meaſure of feruour? Reſp. Bewaile it, and hereafter ſhun the occaſions. But there …
    With rule
    DecaiesDecays in meaſure of feruour? Reſp. Bewaile it, and hereafter ſhun the occaſions. But there …

    William Sclater · Exposition of 2 Thessalonians · p. 233 · Open in the reader

Christs Counsel to His Languishing Church of Sardis A11850

  • Printed
    DecaiesDecays in judgement. p 12
    With rule
    DecaiesDecays in judgement. p 12

    Obadiah Sedgwick · Christs Counsel to His Languishing Church of Sardis · Open in the reader