Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4970 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

raiesrays

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

Puritas changed it: 168 times in 102 works
Consistency: 83.1% (168 of 202)
Reach if approved: ~212 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: rays
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 202 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (168 changes in 102 works, 83.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 168)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Orthodoxly of the Creation, as Plato did, took what they knew thereof from thoſe raiesrays, which Divine Revelation had ſcattered in the world, by the Children of Noah, or …
With rule
… Orthodoxly of the Creation, as Plato did, took what they knew thereof from thoſe raiesrays, which Divine Revelation had ſcattered in the world, by the Children of Noah, or …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 313 · Open in the reader
Printed
… perfections, as it is natural for the Sun to ſend forth its own pretious raiesrays: And then this being the very nature of the Eſſence and being of any …
With rule
… perfections, as it is natural for the Sun to ſend forth its own pretious raiesrays: And then this being the very nature of the Eſſence and being of any …
John Lougher · The Souls Union with Christ · p. 315 · Open in the reader
Printed
… herein:) to suppresse and withstand all, publicke breaches of the Peace, Riots, Routs, Robberies, …raiesrays, Tumults, Forcible Entries, and to apprehend, disarme, imprison, and bring to condigne punishment all …
With rule
… herein:) to suppresse and withstand all, publicke breaches of the Peace, Riots, Routs, Robberies, …raiesrays, Tumults, Forcible Entries, and to apprehend, disarme, imprison, and bring to condigne punishment all …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to a Star in regard of influence, duration, or beauty? Hath it any quickning raiesrays flowing from it? Or is its light immortal, ſo as not to become deſpiſed …
With rule
… to a Star in regard of influence, duration, or beauty? Hath it any quickning raiesrays flowing from it? Or is its light immortal, ſo as not to become deſpiſed …
William Spurstowe · The Spiritual Chemist · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… men are all in God eminentor: our faithfulneſſe, & other vertue, what are they but raiesrays of that Sun? Explication we need here rather then proofe.
With rule
… men are all in God eminentor: our faithfulneſſe, & other vertue, what are they but raiesrays of that Sun? Explication we need here rather then proofe.
William Sclater · Exposition of 2 Thessalonians · p. 233 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bright ſhining Sunne of righteouſnes, from whom we borrow all our light, without whoſe raiesrays of holineſſe we ſhould remaine in the darkneſſe of our ſinnes and corruptions.
With rule
… bright ſhining Sunne of righteouſnes, from whom we borrow all our light, without whoſe raiesrays of holineſſe we ſhould remaine in the darkneſſe of our ſinnes and corruptions.
John Downame · The Christian Warfare Part 1 · p. 583 · Open in the reader
Printed
And make thee— Idolize It's * Sun-bright raiesrays:
With rule
And make thee— Idolize It's * Sun-bright raiesrays:
Samuel Bolton · The Dead Saint Speaking to Saints and Sinners Living · Open in the reader
Printed
… without form or comliness: but like Moses in the Mount, shining with the very raiesrays of the glory of God upon it.
With rule
… without form or comliness: but like Moses in the Mount, shining with the very raiesrays of the glory of God upon it.
Samuel Crossman · The Young Mans Monitor · p. 74 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (34)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 31 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Three Treatises A10659

Printed
Fourthly, Promises are the efficient causes of our purification, as they are the RaiesRays and Beames of Christ the Sunne of Righteousnesse, in whom they are all founded …
With rule
Fourthly, Promises are the efficient causes of our purification, as they are the RaiesRays and Beames of Christ the Sunne of Righteousnesse, in whom they are all founded …
Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 345 · Open in the reader

The Blessedness of the Righteous A44666

Printed
… suffering Saints is not a state of total misery. There are, as it were RaiesRays of Glory interlac't with their present afflictions; but there will be nothing of Affliction …
With rule
… suffering Saints is not a state of total misery. There are, as it were RaiesRays of Glory interlac't with their present afflictions; but there will be nothing of Affliction …
John Howe · The Blessedness of the Righteous · p. 388 · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles A85480

Printed
… his own Preſence and Worſhip, but alſo as the Moon, to reflect ſome broken RaiesRays, or imperfect Traditions of that Glorious light ſhe received, from the Sun of Righteouſnes …
With rule
… his own Preſence and Worſhip, but alſo as the Moon, to reflect ſome broken RaiesRays, or imperfect Traditions of that Glorious light ſhe received, from the Sun of Righteouſnes …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles · Open in the reader