Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4981 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

shieshy

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

Puritas changed it: 230 times in 165 works
Consistency: 100% (230 of 230)
Reach if approved: ~242 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: shy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 230 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (230 changes in 165 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 230)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… was never perſwaded of. Oh this is very hard, and the heart is marvellous ſhieshy and carefull in this; and it is with the heart in this kinde as …
With rule
… was never perſwaded of. Oh this is very hard, and the heart is marvellous ſhieshy and carefull in this; and it is with the heart in this kinde as …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Humiliation · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as God is strong, so… Rock is strong. So likewise a shield, as a shieshy… defends, so God defends us: there is som… resemblance of God in the creature …
With rule
… as God is strong, so… Rock is strong. So likewise a shield, as a shieshy… defends, so God defends us: there is som… resemblance of God in the creature …
Richard Sibbes · Evangelical Sacrifices · p. 172 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſtones, nor our fleſh of braſſe▪ as Iob ſpeaketh, Iob 6. 12. but we are fl…ſhieshy bodies, and therefore very ſenſible of the leaſt paines.
With rule
… ſtones, nor our fleſh of braſſe▪ as Iob ſpeaketh, Iob 6. 12. but we are fl…ſhieshy bodies, and therefore very ſenſible of the leaſt paines.
Stephen Denison · The Monument · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of God many times is very terrible to an hypocrite, which makes him very ſhieshy of venturing upon the tryal of God: No hypocrite ſince the world ſtood, did …
With rule
… of God many times is very terrible to an hypocrite, which makes him very ſhieshy of venturing upon the tryal of God: No hypocrite ſince the world ſtood, did …
Thomas Brooks · A Cabinet of Choice Jewels · p. 329 · Open in the reader
Printed
… those dangerous errours in our Churches, no wonder that any conscientious Presbyterian should be shieshy of admitting him to preach to their people.
With rule
… those dangerous errours in our Churches, no wonder that any conscientious Presbyterian should be shieshy of admitting him to preach to their people.
Edmund Calamy · A Just and Necessary Apology Against Burton · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Debt be ſmall; but if it be for thouſands and for millions, men are ſhieshy, but if it be for multitudes that owe ſuch great ſums, every one ſo …
With rule
… Debt be ſmall; but if it be for thouſands and for millions, men are ſhieshy, but if it be for multitudes that owe ſuch great ſums, every one ſo …
Thomas Doolittle · Captives Bound in Chains Made Free by Christ · p. 193 · Open in the reader
Printed
… oath; for if there doe, both in conscience and in discretion, he will be shieshy of administring an oath to such a person, in such a case.
With rule
… oath; for if there doe, both in conscience and in discretion, he will be shieshy of administring an oath to such a person, in such a case.
Daniel Featley · The Dippers Dipped · p. 169 · Open in the reader
Printed
… meere State prudentials, lest you bee found underminers of the Lords Temple. Bee not shieshy of Jus divinum, where you have verbum divinum for it. The Kingdome of Christ …
With rule
… meere State prudentials, lest you bee found underminers of the Lords Temple. Bee not shieshy of Jus divinum, where you have verbum divinum for it. The Kingdome of Christ …
Thomas Hill · The Season for Englands Self-Reflection · p. 34 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.