Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4971 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

raylingsrailings

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

Puritas changed it: 173 times in 123 works
Consistency: 89.6% (173 of 193)
Reach if approved: ~203 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: railings
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 193 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (173 changes in 123 works, 89.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 173)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… tongues, but that they muſt needs ſpit venome? If they be angrie, their bitter raylingsrailings, and reuilings ſhall haue ſharp points, & keene edges: if they be merrie, they will …
With rule
… tongues, but that they muſt needs ſpit venome? If they be angrie, their bitter raylingsrailings, and reuilings ſhall haue ſharp points, & keene edges: if they be merrie, they will …
John Dod · Exposition of Proverbs 11-12 · p. 164 · Open in the reader
Printed
… nettles in our ground: Comfort, if croſſes do not draw paſsions, oathes, curſes, repinings, raylingsrailings, but prayers, confeſsions &c. from vs. O tis well when being let bloud, our …
With rule
… nettles in our ground: Comfort, if croſſes do not draw paſsions, oathes, curſes, repinings, raylingsrailings, but prayers, confeſsions &c. from vs. O tis well when being let bloud, our …
Robert Harris · Davids Comfort at Ziklag · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… worſhip taught there, to ſay nothing of Popery, Arminianiſme, and Libertiniſme. Pare away their raylingsrailings againſt the power and life of religion, and the generation of the juſt. Remoue …
With rule
… worſhip taught there, to ſay nothing of Popery, Arminianiſme, and Libertiniſme. Pare away their raylingsrailings againſt the power and life of religion, and the generation of the juſt. Remoue …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… anger. The third is, to be worthie of hell fire, for reproachfull names or raylingsrailings. And here we must vnderstand, that Christ speaketh not properly, in setting downe these …
With rule
… anger. The third is, to be worthie of hell fire, for reproachfull names or raylingsrailings. And here we must vnderstand, that Christ speaketh not properly, in setting downe these …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 91 · Open in the reader
Printed
… beare in my body the markes of the Lord Ieſus. Euen ſo all thoſe raylingsrailings of Sennacherib, Whom haſt thou reproached and blaſphemed? and againſt whom haſt thou exalted …
With rule
… beare in my body the markes of the Lord Ieſus. Euen ſo all thoſe raylingsrailings of Sennacherib, Whom haſt thou reproached and blaſphemed? and againſt whom haſt thou exalted …
Samuel Smith · The Admirable Convert · p. 233 · Open in the reader
Printed
… one. A poore man could with leſſe vexation, beare an hundred ill words and raylingsrailings than he the leaſt croſſe-word. Of all men ordinarily none vexe themſelues more …
With rule
… one. A poore man could with leſſe vexation, beare an hundred ill words and raylingsrailings than he the leaſt croſſe-word. Of all men ordinarily none vexe themſelues more …
William Whately · A Caveat for the Covetous · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them. In the meane while the reprobate shall doe nothing els with their murmuring raylingsrailings, but bring vppon themselues a more greeuous destruction.
With rule
… them. In the meane while the reprobate shall doe nothing els with their murmuring raylingsrailings, but bring vppon themselues a more greeuous destruction.
John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 160 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but I pray God unite them together. Hereat he was mute, and all his raylingsrailings, and false charges were at an non-plus. So it seem'd some there were …
With rule
… but I pray God unite them together. Hereat he was mute, and all his raylingsrailings, and false charges were at an non-plus. So it seem'd some there were …
Henry Burton · For God and the King · p. 45 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (20)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 15 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Utter Routing of the Whole Army of All the Independents and Sectaries A26759

Printed
… of two or three of their witneſſes, the truth of their proceedings in their RaylingsRailings, Errors and Lyes, and bad practiſes may be yet more evident. My brother Burton …
With rule
… of two or three of their witneſſes, the truth of their proceedings in their RaylingsRailings, Errors and Lyes, and bad practiſes may be yet more evident. My brother Burton …
John Bastwick · The Utter Routing of the Whole Army of All the Independents and Sectaries · p. 311 · Open in the reader

The Perfect Pharisee Under Monkish Holiness A33735

Printed
… alas, are narrower coverings then can conceale the wickednesse of the Blasphemies, Cursings, and RaylingsRailings, which under these are ushered in, to destroy the foundation of the Saints.
With rule
… alas, are narrower coverings then can conceale the wickednesse of the Blasphemies, Cursings, and RaylingsRailings, which under these are ushered in, to destroy the foundation of the Saints.
Thomas Weld · The Perfect Pharisee Under Monkish Holiness · Open in the reader

Quakers Principles Quaking A45325

Printed
… Revilers amongſt ſuch as ſhall not inherite the Kingdom, 1 Cor. 6.9, 10. and indeed your inhuman RaylingsRailings, falſe and ſlanderous Accuſations, unchriſtian Judgings, and Cenſures that you ordinarily paſs upon all …
With rule
… Revilers amongſt ſuch as ſhall not inherite the Kingdom, 1 Cor. 6.9, 10. and indeed your inhuman RaylingsRailings, falſe and ſlanderous Accuſations, unchriſtian Judgings, and Cenſures that you ordinarily paſs upon all …
Ralph Hall · Quakers Principles Quaking · p. 27 · Open in the reader

Practical Commentary of 1 Peter Volume 2 A47643

Printed
… being a far easier way of mischief in this kind, and of better conveyance. RaylingsRailings cry out the matter openly, but Detraction works all by Surprizes, and Stratagem, and …
With rule
… being a far easier way of mischief in this kind, and of better conveyance. RaylingsRailings cry out the matter openly, but Detraction works all by Surprizes, and Stratagem, and …
Robert Leighton · Practical Commentary of 1 Peter Volume 2 · p. 60 · Open in the reader

Further Discovery of the Quakers A65389

Printed
… is more fully layd open their Blaſphemies, notorious Equivocations, Lyings, wreſtings of the Scripture, RaylingsRailings, and other deteſtable Principles and Practiſes.
With rule
… is more fully layd open their Blaſphemies, notorious Equivocations, Lyings, wreſtings of the Scripture, RaylingsRailings, and other deteſtable Principles and Practiſes.
Thomas Weld · Further Discovery of the Quakers · Open in the reader