Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4917 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

greediegreedy

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

Puritas changed it: 483 times in 241 works
Consistency: 98.5% (483 of 490)
Reach if approved: ~515 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: greedy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 490 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (483 changes in 241 works, 98.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 483)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… thei… wages / and let them not pull it out of poore mens throates like greediegreedy doggs as they do. You striue in vaine / you are layd open alreadie. Fryar …
With rule
… thei… wages / and let them not pull it out of poore mens throates like greediegreedy doggs as they do. You striue in vaine / you are layd open alreadie. Fryar …
Martin Marprelate · Read John Bridges · Open in the reader
Printed
… naked, bringing nothing, neither carrying away any thing; Oh bleſſe mee from couetouſneſſe, and greediegreedy cares of this fading world; If I haue but to liue, let mee bee …
With rule
… naked, bringing nothing, neither carrying away any thing; Oh bleſſe mee from couetouſneſſe, and greediegreedy cares of this fading world; If I haue but to liue, let mee bee …
Richard Bernard · A Weeks Work and a Work for Every Week · p. 118 · Open in the reader
Printed
… feele no paine for want of food. There is indeed an hunger, nay a greediegreedy worme in many after the profits, pleasures, and honors of this world: but few …
With rule
… feele no paine for want of food. There is indeed an hunger, nay a greediegreedy worme in many after the profits, pleasures, and honors of this world: but few …
William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · p. 129 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a staffe to lean on. But for this, we shall never see any more greediegreedy, then such as have more then enough for many ages: their aboundance no more …
With rule
… a staffe to lean on. But for this, we shall never see any more greediegreedy, then such as have more then enough for many ages: their aboundance no more …
John Robinson · Observations Divine and Moral · p. 167 · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue no pittie vpon the poore, they are cruell and vnmercifull, and therefore their greediegreedy deſire, ſhall encreaſe to their confuſion, and as their money encreaſeth, ſo ſhall they …
With rule
… haue no pittie vpon the poore, they are cruell and vnmercifull, and therefore their greediegreedy deſire, ſhall encreaſe to their confuſion, and as their money encreaſeth, ſo ſhall they …
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… There be ſwarmes of drunkards, gluttons and vnchaſt perſons: There be couetous worldlings, and greediegreedy vſurers, extortioners, oppreſſors, bribers and defrauders: There be liers, backbiters, and ſlanderers: There bée …
With rule
… There be ſwarmes of drunkards, gluttons and vnchaſt perſons: There be couetous worldlings, and greediegreedy vſurers, extortioners, oppreſſors, bribers and defrauders: There be liers, backbiters, and ſlanderers: There bée …
George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… drowned in the deepe Lake of Gehenna, and to be eternally torne with moſt greediegreedy wormes: To thinke on theſe thinges (ſayth he) is a ſure way to renounce …
With rule
… drowned in the deepe Lake of Gehenna, and to be eternally torne with moſt greediegreedy wormes: To thinke on theſe thinges (ſayth he) is a ſure way to renounce …
Henry Greenwood · Tormenting Tophet · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Lords paſture; whom theſe ſmoakie locuſts of the bottomleſſe pit, theſe rauenous Wolfes greediegreedy of the prey, moſt abhorred: to place their owne Baals Prieſts, and all the …
With rule
… the Lords paſture; whom theſe ſmoakie locuſts of the bottomleſſe pit, theſe rauenous Wolfes greediegreedy of the prey, moſt abhorred: to place their owne Baals Prieſts, and all the …
William Hubbock · Great Britains Resurrection · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

6 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.

The Purple Island A00977

Printed
GreedieGreedy to venge his brothers sad decay,
With rule
GreedieGreedy to venge his brothers sad decay,
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 151 · Open in the reader

The Bibles Abstract and Epitome A27502

Printed
GreedieGreedy Men.
With rule
GreedieGreedy Men.
Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
GreedieGreedy dogs.
With rule
GreedieGreedy dogs.
Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 161 · Open in the reader
Printed
GreedieGreedy wolves.
With rule
GreedieGreedy wolves.
Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 162 · Open in the reader

An Exposition of Hosea 11-13 A30575

Printed
Sixthly, GreedieGreedy of gain, 1 Sam. 15. 19. Samuel charges him, with flying upon the ſpoil.
With rule
Sixthly, GreedieGreedy of gain, 1 Sam. 15. 19. Samuel charges him, with flying upon the ſpoil.
Jeremiah Burroughs · An Exposition of Hosea 11-13 · p. 563 · Open in the reader

An Easy Entrance to the Latin Tongue A44384

Printed
1. Deſire: as Cúpidus auri. GreedieGreedy of gold.
With rule
1. Deſire: as Cúpidus auri. GreedieGreedy of gold.
Charles Hoole · An Easy Entrance to the Latin Tongue · p. 77 · Open in the reader