Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5050 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bryarsbriars

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

Puritas changed it: 629 times in 332 works
Consistency: 100% (629 of 629)
Reach if approved: ~661 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: briars
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 629 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (629 changes in 332 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 629)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the specious title of a friend that will save you from the thorns and bryarsbriars of disquietment, and from greater troubles than ever you found from open enemies.
With rule
… the specious title of a friend that will save you from the thorns and bryarsbriars of disquietment, and from greater troubles than ever you found from open enemies.
Richard Baxter · The Christians Converse with God · p. 159 · Open in the reader
Printed
… correcteth them so sharply as he doth. He medleth not with the thornes and bryarsbriars, but letteth them grow till they be fit for the fire, but his Vines …
With rule
… correcteth them so sharply as he doth. He medleth not with the thornes and bryarsbriars, but letteth them grow till they be fit for the fire, but his Vines …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 546 · Open in the reader
Printed
… heart turned vp; and is the ſtonineſſe thereof taken away? Are thoſe brambles and bryarsbriars, (noyſome luſts, and ſtrong corruptions) which formerly grew therein, now weeded vp, and caſt …
With rule
… heart turned vp; and is the ſtonineſſe thereof taken away? Are thoſe brambles and bryarsbriars, (noyſome luſts, and ſtrong corruptions) which formerly grew therein, now weeded vp, and caſt …
Nehemiah Rogers · A Strange Vineyard in Palestine · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… gaming, worldlinesse, and other their lusts. Such as these who are no better then bryarsbriars, I would aduise to keepe them in the wast, and come not within Gods …
With rule
… gaming, worldlinesse, and other their lusts. Such as these who are no better then bryarsbriars, I would aduise to keepe them in the wast, and come not within Gods …
Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 402 · Open in the reader
Printed
… narrow and strait passage, incumbred with many difficulties and dangers, strowed with thornes and bryarsbriars, beset with band-dogs, and wilde beasts, crawling with serpents and snakes, and lying …
With rule
… narrow and strait passage, incumbred with many difficulties and dangers, strowed with thornes and bryarsbriars, beset with band-dogs, and wilde beasts, crawling with serpents and snakes, and lying …
Henry Burton · The Christians Bulwark · p. 283 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his sonne to take a ram, that was fast by the hornes in the bryarsbriars. This obedience of Abraham vnto Gods commaundement in offering of his sonne, declared by …
With rule
… his sonne to take a ram, that was fast by the hornes in the bryarsbriars. This obedience of Abraham vnto Gods commaundement in offering of his sonne, declared by …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
But to helpe the poore ſoule out of the bryarsbriars in this caſe, deale truely with thy ſelfe: Anſw. doſt thou find that thou …
With rule
But to helpe the poore ſoule out of the bryarsbriars in this caſe, deale truely with thy ſelfe: Anſw. doſt thou find that thou …
Edward Elton · The Complaint of a Sanctified Sinner Answered · p. 325 · Open in the reader
Printed
… against him, Isa. 1. 2. Judge in …our own selves: Is it a reasonable undertaking, for bryarsbriars and thorns, to set themselves in Battle against the devouring sire? Isa. 27. 4. or for …
With rule
… against him, Isa. 1. 2. Judge in …our own selves: Is it a reasonable undertaking, for bryarsbriars and thorns, to set themselves in Battle against the devouring sire? Isa. 27. 4. or for …
Joseph Alleine · A Sure Guide to Heaven · p. 67 · 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.