Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5046 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bewayledbewailed

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

Puritas changed it: 176 times in 141 works
Consistency: 97.7% (176 of 180)
Reach if approved: ~189 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bewailed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 180 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (176 changes in 141 works, 97.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 176)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… les then the very death of his sonne should haue done. As Dauid lamentably bewayledbewailed his sonne lying in y^e panges of death, but after he was dead, he …
With rule
… les then the very death of his sonne should haue done. As Dauid lamentably bewayledbewailed his sonne lying in y^e panges of death, but after he was dead, he …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and ſcandalous, though the heart be neuer ſo well ſanctified: yet this euill is bewayledbewailed when it is perceiued, and more care is taken by the Chriſtian, to ſet …
With rule
… and ſcandalous, though the heart be neuer ſo well ſanctified: yet this euill is bewayledbewailed when it is perceiued, and more care is taken by the Chriſtian, to ſet …
Thomas Barnes · The Gales of Grace · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… tel wel whether the great blīdnes of Chryſt his aduerſaryes is more to be bewayledbewailed and lamented: than the frowarde, croked, and way warde ſtobborneſſe of them is to …
With rule
… tel wel whether the great blīdnes of Chryſt his aduerſaryes is more to be bewayledbewailed and lamented: than the frowarde, croked, and way warde ſtobborneſſe of them is to …
Philipp Melanchthon · The Justification of Man by Faith Only · Open in the reader
Printed
… was poenitent for it after her second husbands death) hee saith, that shee lamented & bewayledbewailed it so, as if shee had cōmitted adulterie. By which kinde of speech & others …
With rule
… was poenitent for it after her second husbands death) hee saith, that shee lamented & bewayledbewailed it so, as if shee had cōmitted adulterie. By which kinde of speech & others …
John Rainolds · Defense of Divorce and Remarriage · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… And there followed him a great multitude of people, and of women, which women bewayledbewailed and lamented him. verse 28 But IESVS turned back: vnto them, and ſaide, Daughters of …
With rule
… And there followed him a great multitude of people, and of women, which women bewayledbewailed and lamented him. verse 28 But IESVS turned back: vnto them, and ſaide, Daughters of …
Robert Rollock · The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
… faynt, when any fayntneſſe of heart hath taken them. And after when they haue bewayledbewailed them the laſt time, they doe burne them the eight day, and the nynthe …
With rule
… faynt, when any fayntneſſe of heart hath taken them. And after when they haue bewayledbewailed them the laſt time, they doe burne them the eight day, and the nynthe …
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
Have much bewayledbewailed our distressed case,
With rule
Have much bewayledbewailed our distressed case,
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · p. 72 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or mitigate his sinne: for it was most fearefull and lamentable, and to bee bewayledbewailed with sad repentance and a floud of teares: But taking Gods Word for my …
With rule
… or mitigate his sinne: for it was most fearefull and lamentable, and to bee bewayledbewailed with sad repentance and a floud of teares: But taking Gods Word for my …
Henry Burton · The Christians Bulwark · p. 297 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.