Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5055 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

choycestchoicest

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

Puritas changed it: 347 times in 175 works
Consistency: 98.5% (347 of 352)
Reach if approved: ~370 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: choicest
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 352 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (347 changes in 175 works, 98.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 347)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… He is come, let him bee made welcome, by setting our best cheere, and choycestchoicest fruites before him. Whom should we entertaine, if not our Sauiour?
With rule
… He is come, let him bee made welcome, by setting our best cheere, and choycestchoicest fruites before him. Whom should we entertaine, if not our Sauiour?
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue now according to the measure of the gift giuen me, set forth the choycestchoicest and chiefest commodity in all the world, which no Faire or Mart can match …
With rule
… haue now according to the measure of the gift giuen me, set forth the choycestchoicest and chiefest commodity in all the world, which no Faire or Mart can match …
Thomas Taylor · Three Treatises · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is no maruell if the faithfull haue alwayes eſteemed it as their chiefeſt and choyceſtchoicest Iewell, preferring it before all earthly things, yea euen life it ſelfe; as we …
With rule
… is no maruell if the faithfull haue alwayes eſteemed it as their chiefeſt and choyceſtchoicest Iewell, preferring it before all earthly things, yea euen life it ſelfe; as we …
John Downame · A Guide to Godliness · p. 406 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be the same, sc▪ the conservation of their Liberties against Tyranny, and Religion the choycestchoicest fruite of their Liberty, against any thing destructive to it, yet the customes and …
With rule
… be the same, sc▪ the conservation of their Liberties against Tyranny, and Religion the choycestchoicest fruite of their Liberty, against any thing destructive to it, yet the customes and …
Edward Bowles · Manifest Truth · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſolid reaſon might take place, thou wouldſt quickly be convinced that grace is the choyceſtchoicest perfection by this Argument; That is the choyſeſt qualification which diſpoſeth a man to …
With rule
… ſolid reaſon might take place, thou wouldſt quickly be convinced that grace is the choyceſtchoicest perfection by this Argument; That is the choyſeſt qualification which diſpoſeth a man to …
Anthony Burgess · Spiritual Refining · p. 326 · Open in the reader
Printed
The onely one of her Mother, the choyceſtchoicest one of her that bare her.] In the Hebrew phraſe, the whole is the …
With rule
The onely one of her Mother, the choyceſtchoicest one of her that bare her.] In the Hebrew phraſe, the whole is the …
John Cotton · A Brief Exposition of the Book of the Song of Solomon · p. 191 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Heart in opposition to Union of Progress; and this may and doth befall the choycestchoicest of the Lords People: Here it is that the Heart may be much divided …
With rule
… Heart in opposition to Union of Progress; and this may and doth befall the choycestchoicest of the Lords People: Here it is that the Heart may be much divided …
Phineas Flavel · The Grand Evil Discovered · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you are lowest, when you are in the bottom of a dark pit: The choycestchoicest wines are the best preserved in the lowest cellars: The most glorious discoveries are …
With rule
… you are lowest, when you are in the bottom of a dark pit: The choycestchoicest wines are the best preserved in the lowest cellars: The most glorious discoveries are …
Thomas Hill · The Best and Worst of Paul and his Character in Both Conditions · p. 7 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Spiritual Refining A30243

Printed
… lives of men. For though it demonſtrate it ſelf there in part, yet the ChoyceſtChoicest, and moſt Noble operation, is within upon the underſtanding heart, and will of a …
With rule
… lives of men. For though it demonſtrate it ſelf there in part, yet the ChoyceſtChoicest, and moſt Noble operation, is within upon the underſtanding heart, and will of a …
Anthony Burgess · Spiritual Refining · p. 258 · Open in the reader

The Holy Arbor A42920

Printed
AN Alphabetical Table Of all the ChoyceſtChoicest FLOWERS Contained in this HOLY ARBOR. The Number notes the Page, the letters a …
With rule
AN Alphabetical Table Of all the ChoyceſtChoicest FLOWERS Contained in this HOLY ARBOR. The Number notes the Page, the letters a …
John Godolphin · The Holy Arbor · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

Printed
5. ChoycestChoicest, Isa. 16. 8.
With rule
5. ChoycestChoicest, Isa. 16. 8.
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 499 · Open in the reader