Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5041 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

aymingaiming

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

Puritas changed it: 266 times in 197 works
Consistency: 100% (266 of 266)
Reach if approved: ~279 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: aiming
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 266 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (266 changes in 197 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 266)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… commands in substance; yet if wee faile in the intention and end, namely, in aymingaiming at the glory of God, and the good of our neighbour; if wee doe …
With rule
… commands in substance; yet if wee faile in the intention and end, namely, in aymingaiming at the glory of God, and the good of our neighbour; if wee doe …
Richard Younge · The Drunkards Character · p. 208 · Open in the reader
Printed
Be …ou so kind as this holy and heauenly patterne, not aymingaiming at the measure which is inimitable, but leuelling at the maner which is charitable …
With rule
Be …ou so kind as this holy and heauenly patterne, not aymingaiming at the measure which is inimitable, but leuelling at the maner which is charitable …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 155 · Open in the reader
Printed
The marke forsooth whereat your aymingaiming is,
With rule
The marke forsooth whereat your aymingaiming is,
Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 197 · Open in the reader
Printed
… prayers of that holy man, shewing the firme resolution of a sanctified soule only aymingaiming at obedience. Lord increase our faith, prayed the weake Disciples, Lord I beleeve, helpe …
With rule
… prayers of that holy man, shewing the firme resolution of a sanctified soule only aymingaiming at obedience. Lord increase our faith, prayed the weake Disciples, Lord I beleeve, helpe …
William Pemble · A Plea for Grace · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
It is like a fire ascending upwards, still aymingaiming at that which is above it: for though superiours oftens grudg at the good …
With rule
It is like a fire ascending upwards, still aymingaiming at that which is above it: for though superiours oftens grudg at the good …
John Robinson · Observations Divine and Moral · p. 218 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the houſe of IEHV: for what cauſe? his heart was not vpright in performance, aymingaiming not ſo much at doing the Will of God, as to ſettle the Kingdome …
With rule
… the houſe of IEHV: for what cauſe? his heart was not vpright in performance, aymingaiming not ſo much at doing the Will of God, as to ſettle the Kingdome …
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 132 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the knowledge and imitation of God. He went also further to his purifications, aymingaiming at the reall change of the person, which Porphyre long after him did purifie …
With rule
… in the knowledge and imitation of God. He went also further to his purifications, aymingaiming at the reall change of the person, which Porphyre long after him did purifie …
William Struther · True Happiness · Open in the reader
Printed
… wretched, and pittifull Laodiceans: Fire is euer climing, and aspiring higher; zeale is euer aymingaiming at that which is before; carried towards perfection; thinking meanely of that which is …
With rule
… wretched, and pittifull Laodiceans: Fire is euer climing, and aspiring higher; zeale is euer aymingaiming at that which is before; carried towards perfection; thinking meanely of that which is …
Samuel Ward · A Coal from the Altar to Kindle the Holy Fire of Zeal · p. 43 · 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.