Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4940 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

loyteringloitering

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

Puritas changed it: 155 times in 115 works
Consistency: 90.1% (155 of 172)
Reach if approved: ~181 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: loitering
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 172 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 115 works, 90.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 155)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Church and common wealth to the ende that they might liue an idle and loyteringloitering life, who through their hypocrisie robbed the people to enrich themselues, and their celles …
With rule
… Church and common wealth to the ende that they might liue an idle and loyteringloitering life, who through their hypocrisie robbed the people to enrich themselues, and their celles …
John Udall · Obedience to the Gospel · Open in the reader
Printed
… against them, by shifting for themselues, or by pilfering and filching, nor by idle loyteringloitering, nor by impudent outfacing, nor by slaunderous backbiting, nor by busie tale-carying: nor …
With rule
… against them, by shifting for themselues, or by pilfering and filching, nor by idle loyteringloitering, nor by impudent outfacing, nor by slaunderous backbiting, nor by busie tale-carying: nor …
William Burton · Ten Sermons Upon Matthew 6:1-4 · p. 117 · Open in the reader
Printed
… déede it ſhortlie followed, vpon them and the whole Realme. And for the Lordlie loyteringloitering Prelates, with all theyr kennell of dumme dogges: I truſt they wyll beare vs …
With rule
… déede it ſhortlie followed, vpon them and the whole Realme. And for the Lordlie loyteringloitering Prelates, with all theyr kennell of dumme dogges: I truſt they wyll beare vs …
John Calvin · Two Godly and Learned Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… plow, nor ſowe his ground; but when others are labouring, hee is ſleeping, or loyteringloitering: as no man will euer looke that the one ſhould haue a plentifull harueſt …
With rule
… plow, nor ſowe his ground; but when others are labouring, hee is ſleeping, or loyteringloitering: as no man will euer looke that the one ſhould haue a plentifull harueſt …
John Dod · Ten Sermons for the Worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper · p. 100 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be attempted. This will make you to be up and doing, when others are loyteringloitering, and wishing and pleasing the flesh, and contenting themselves with plausible Sermons, and the …
With rule
… be attempted. This will make you to be up and doing, when others are loyteringloitering, and wishing and pleasing the flesh, and contenting themselves with plausible Sermons, and the …
Richard Baxter · Right to Sacraments · Open in the reader
Printed
2. As to the matter of Ordinance and Institution for the maintenance of labouring (not loyteringloitering) Gospel-Ministers, it is not necessary here to say much. I have, in the …
With rule
2. As to the matter of Ordinance and Institution for the maintenance of labouring (not loyteringloitering) Gospel-Ministers, it is not necessary here to say much. I have, in the …
Cornelius Burges · No Sacrilege or Sin to Alienate or Purchase Cathedral Lands · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Miracles, with a torche in their hand: they esteeme all the festiuall and loyteringloitering dayes neuer a whit: and when the good Catholikes doe sit in Tauernes drinking …
With rule
… of Miracles, with a torche in their hand: they esteeme all the festiuall and loyteringloitering dayes neuer a whit: and when the good Catholikes doe sit in Tauernes drinking …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 274 · Open in the reader
Printed
… speech which should make all our Lordly Prelates humble and give over their Lording, loyteringloitering and secular imployments, to fall a preaching & winne some soules to God.
With rule
… speech which should make all our Lordly Prelates humble and give over their Lording, loyteringloitering and secular imployments, to fall a preaching & winne some soules to God.
William Prynne · A Looking Glass for All Lordly Prelates · p. 96 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (17)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Rebuke to Backsliders and a Spur for Loiterers A26717

Printed
LoyteringLoitering, and idleneſs, and lazineſs do beget and nouriſh evil humours and diſeaſes; exerciſe and …
With rule
LoyteringLoitering, and idleneſs, and lazineſs do beget and nouriſh evil humours and diſeaſes; exerciſe and …
Richard Alleine · A Rebuke to Backsliders and a Spur for Loiterers · p. 172 · Open in the reader

The Saints Everlasting Rest A27017

Printed
… by waight: Their intent and use is, to drive thee from Delaying and from LoyteringLoitering in seeking Rest: And to all men do I propound them, both Godly and …
With rule
… by waight: Their intent and use is, to drive thee from Delaying and from LoyteringLoitering in seeking Rest: And to all men do I propound them, both Godly and …
Richard Baxter · The Saints Everlasting Rest · p. 349 · Open in the reader

Sermon 31 May 1697 A66979

Printed
… Spy in thy own Boſome, that will tell of all thy Sloth, Coldneſs, and LoyteringLoitering in his Work, and Service.
With rule
… Spy in thy own Boſome, that will tell of all thy Sloth, Coldneſs, and LoyteringLoitering in his Work, and Service.
John Woodhouse · Sermon 31 May 1697 · p. 26 · Open in the reader

Of the Prelates Intolerable Usurpations B15410

Printed
… their fresh companions, so that ploughing is set aside. And by their Lording and LoyteringLoitering, preaching and ploughing is cleane gone. And thus if the ploughmen in the country …
With rule
… their fresh companions, so that ploughing is set aside. And by their Lording and LoyteringLoitering, preaching and ploughing is cleane gone. And thus if the ploughmen in the country …
William Prynne · Of the Prelates Intolerable Usurpations · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… preacher in all the Realme, hee is ever at his plough: no Lording no… LoyteringLoitering can hinder him, hee is ever applying hi… businesse, yee shall never finde him …
With rule
… preacher in all the Realme, hee is ever at his plough: no Lording no… LoyteringLoitering can hinder him, hee is ever applying hi… businesse, yee shall never finde him …
William Prynne · Of the Prelates Intolerable Usurpations · p. 32 · Open in the reader