Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5063 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cryestcriest

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

Puritas changed it: 277 times in 214 works
Consistency: 97.8% (277 of 283)
Reach if approved: ~297 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: criest
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 283 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (277 changes in 214 works, 97.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 277)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… oute so loude? The people hearde him saye nothynge, and yet GOD sayed. Whi cryestcriest thou out? Straight wayes he stroke the water with hys rodde, and deuyded it …
With rule
… oute so loude? The people hearde him saye nothynge, and yet GOD sayed. Whi cryestcriest thou out? Straight wayes he stroke the water with hys rodde, and deuyded it …
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
… thus of y^• power of God, y^• thou canste not be heard, excepte thou cryestcriest oute. Let thy worke crye, let thy fayth cry, let thy mynde crye, let …
With rule
… thus of y^• power of God, y^• thou canste not be heard, excepte thou cryestcriest oute. Let thy worke crye, let thy fayth cry, let thy mynde crye, let …
Thomas Becon · A New Pathway Unto Prayer · Open in the reader
Printed
… thy Achan, that there is some particular sinne, vnrepented of, and thou cryestcriest and cryestcriest but thy sinne cries louder, thy pride, or thy oppression cries, thy wicked course …
With rule
… thy Achan, that there is some particular sinne, vnrepented of, and thou cryestcriest and cryestcriest but thy sinne cries louder, thy pride, or thy oppression cries, thy wicked course …
Richard Sibbes · The Riches of Mercy · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Christian understand God his Physitian, tribulation his Physicke; being afflicted under the Medicine, thou cryestcriest; the Physitian heares thee not according to thy will, but thy weale; thou canst …
With rule
… Christian understand God his Physitian, tribulation his Physicke; being afflicted under the Medicine, thou cryestcriest; the Physitian heares thee not according to thy will, but thy weale; thou canst …
Richard Younge · The Victory of Patience · p. 252 · Open in the reader
Printed
… workes in thee compunction and terrour, the spirit of bondage, Rom. 8.15. so that thou cryestcriest out, What shall I doe, Act. 2.37. Then thirdly, the Law is made thy Schoole …
With rule
… workes in thee compunction and terrour, the spirit of bondage, Rom. 8.15. so that thou cryestcriest out, What shall I doe, Act. 2.37. Then thirdly, the Law is made thy Schoole …
Daniel Dyke · Six Evangelical Histories of Water Turned into Wine · p. 172 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for affliction. When affliction lyes too heavy, ſin uſually lyes too light; Jer. 30.15. Why cryestcriest thou for thine affliction—becauſe thy ſins were increaſed, I have done theſe things …
With rule
… for affliction. When affliction lyes too heavy, ſin uſually lyes too light; Jer. 30.15. Why cryestcriest thou for thine affliction—becauſe thy ſins were increaſed, I have done theſe things …
Richard Alleine · Instructions About Heart-Work · p. 219 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of this chapter, where it is said; that the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore cryestcriest thou unto me? Speake unto the children of Israel, &c. Here the question may …
With rule
… of this chapter, where it is said; that the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore cryestcriest thou unto me? Speake unto the children of Israel, &c. Here the question may …
John Brinsley · Stand Still · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I (ſaith the Lord) forget thee. If now being fallen thou lieſt ſtill, and cryeſtcriest not for helpe, doeſt thou not juſtly deſerve to be let alone, even for …
With rule
… I (ſaith the Lord) forget thee. If now being fallen thou lieſt ſtill, and cryeſtcriest not for helpe, doeſt thou not juſtly deſerve to be let alone, even for …
William Gouge · The Saints Sacrifice · p. 109 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition of Proverbs 1-3 A95065

Printed
Figures. CryeſtCriest. Lifteſt up thy voyce. Synecd. generis. If thou pray. For a man may cry …
With rule
Figures. CryeſtCriest. Lifteſt up thy voyce. Synecd. generis. If thou pray. For a man may cry …
Francis Taylor · Exposition of Proverbs 1-3 · p. 231 · Open in the reader