Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4944 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

massiemassy

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

Puritas changed it: 485 times in 231 works
Consistency: 99.5% (485 of 487)
Reach if approved: ~512 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: massy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 487 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (485 changes in 231 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 485)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the moſt dangerous ſervice, that thereby he may gaine greater honour, and a more maſsiemassy crowne of glory. Moreover, ſinne taketh us oftentimes after the nature of a falling …
With rule
… the moſt dangerous ſervice, that thereby he may gaine greater honour, and a more maſsiemassy crowne of glory. Moreover, ſinne taketh us oftentimes after the nature of a falling …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 312 · Open in the reader
Printed
… can there be in this? to part with light things, for those that are massiemassy and substantiall, temporary for eternall, earthly for heavenly. All earthly things are lesse than …
With rule
… can there be in this? to part with light things, for those that are massiemassy and substantiall, temporary for eternall, earthly for heavenly. All earthly things are lesse than …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 155 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſee who is blowne away like light chaffe, and who reſiſteth the blaſt, like maſſiemassy and good wheat. That which lieth hidde in the greene blade of corn, is …
With rule
… ſee who is blowne away like light chaffe, and who reſiſteth the blaſt, like maſſiemassy and good wheat. That which lieth hidde in the greene blade of corn, is …
Gabriel Powel · The Resolved Christian Exhorting to Resolution · p. 244 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thou haſt: firſt he calleth it a bodie, it is a bodie, then a maſſiemassy lumpe: this is a borrowed word from the bodie of man. So the garment …
With rule
… thou haſt: firſt he calleth it a bodie, it is a bodie, then a maſſiemassy lumpe: this is a borrowed word from the bodie of man. So the garment …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon Colossians · p. 165 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the branches of frankincenſe in the time of Summer: and as a veſſell of maſsiemassy golde beſet with rich precious ſtones, as a fayre Oliue that is fruitefull, and …
With rule
… the branches of frankincenſe in the time of Summer: and as a veſſell of maſsiemassy golde beſet with rich precious ſtones, as a fayre Oliue that is fruitefull, and …
Henry Smith · Two Sermons of Jonahs Punishment · Open in the reader
Printed
The maſſiemassy Globe does 'bout its center ride.
With rule
The maſſiemassy Globe does 'bout its center ride.
Nathaniel Whiting · The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
2. Time is precious. If all this great massiemassy bodie of the whole earth, whereupon we tread, were turned into a lumpe of …
With rule
2. Time is precious. If all this great massiemassy bodie of the whole earth, whereupon we tread, were turned into a lumpe of …
Robert Bolton · Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God · p. 159 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ioynts, and marrow: for his meaning is, that there is nothing ſo hard or maſſiemassy in man, nor nothing ſo ſecret and hidden, but the efficacie of this word …
With rule
… ioynts, and marrow: for his meaning is, that there is nothing ſo hard or maſſiemassy in man, nor nothing ſo ſecret and hidden, but the efficacie of this word …
John Calvin · Commentary on Hebrews · p. 81 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Historical Relation of the Military Government of Gloucester A34531

Printed
… beginning of the Civill Warre Betweene KING and PARLIAMENT To the removall of Colonell MASSIEMASSY from that Government to the Command of the Westerne Forces.
With rule
… beginning of the Civill Warre Betweene KING and PARLIAMENT To the removall of Colonell MASSIEMASSY from that Government to the Command of the Westerne Forces.
John Corbet · Historical Relation of the Military Government of Gloucester · Open in the reader

A Vindication of the Magistrates and Ministers of Gloucester A80553

Printed
By JOHN CORBET Miniſter, and Chaplain to Major Generall MASSIEMASSY.
With rule
By JOHN CORBET Miniſter, and Chaplain to Major Generall MASSIEMASSY.
John Corbet · A Vindication of the Magistrates and Ministers of Gloucester · Open in the reader