Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4945 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

maymedmaimed

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

Puritas changed it: 209 times in 143 works
Consistency: 99.5% (209 of 210)
Reach if approved: ~221 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: maimed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 210 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (209 changes in 143 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 209)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… into the ſtreetes & lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poore, & the maymedmaimed, and the halt, and the blinde.
With rule
… into the ſtreetes & lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poore, & the maymedmaimed, and the halt, and the blinde.
Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 165 · Open in the reader
Printed
… do their country ſervice in forraigne wars and are lawfully returned home againe perhaps maymedmaimed, or ſome other way-needy and diſtreſſed, to ſuch the forementioned Lady Ramſey gave …
With rule
… do their country ſervice in forraigne wars and are lawfully returned home againe perhaps maymedmaimed, or ſome other way-needy and diſtreſſed, to ſuch the forementioned Lady Ramſey gave …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 389 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Malefactors in the first, to render ireble damages to the parties greeved, and maymedmaimed by them, and to make a fine to his Majestie, is a question worthy …
With rule
… and Malefactors in the first, to render ireble damages to the parties greeved, and maymedmaimed by them, and to make a fine to his Majestie, is a question worthy …
William Prynne · Sixteen New Queries · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of these vertues this will is halfe dead and wounded. I call it a maymedmaimed power and freedome, because it is a certaine kind of libertie in some externall …
With rule
… of these vertues this will is halfe dead and wounded. I call it a maymedmaimed power and freedome, because it is a certaine kind of libertie in some externall …
Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 611 · Open in the reader
Printed
… receiuing of the sacrament, and that but in one kind, and so it is maymedmaimed and defectiue in the sacramentall effects: where then there is no knowledge in themselues …
With rule
… receiuing of the sacrament, and that but in one kind, and so it is maymedmaimed and defectiue in the sacramentall effects: where then there is no knowledge in themselues …
Andrew Willet · An Antilogy · p. 117 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſay, eyther it is to be expounded of the Baptiſt, or of none: which maymedmaimed and unneceſſary diſiunction, no adverſarie can grant unto you. But to pardon you alſo …
With rule
… ſay, eyther it is to be expounded of the Baptiſt, or of none: which maymedmaimed and unneceſſary diſiunction, no adverſarie can grant unto you. But to pardon you alſo …
Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 530 · Open in the reader
Printed
… filled or hath his fulnesse of the Church, so that he is not a maymedmaimed head without a bodie. This would S. Paule say, if you would giue him …
With rule
… filled or hath his fulnesse of the Church, so that he is not a maymedmaimed head without a bodie. This would S. Paule say, if you would giue him …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 153 · Open in the reader
Printed
… waite for, were nowe sure in hold, and the Admirall lay in his bed maymedmaimed of hoth his armes and coulde not stirre, the king of Nauarre and Prince …
With rule
… waite for, were nowe sure in hold, and the Admirall lay in his bed maymedmaimed of hoth his armes and coulde not stirre, the king of Nauarre and Prince …
François Hotman · The Furious Outrages of France and the Horrible Slaughter · p. XlIX · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.