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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5093 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

gyantsgiants

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

Puritas changed it
554 times in 304 works
Consistency
99.8% (554 of 555)
Reach if approved
~583 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: giants
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
555 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (554 changes in 304 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 554)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … thought hee could not bring them in because of so great walls and great GyantsGiants, &c. and so take you heed lest you limit his mercy, as that when …
    With rule
    … thought hee could not bring them in because of so great walls and great GyantsGiants, &c. and so take you heed lest you limit his mercy, as that when …

    John Preston · Sermons · p. 121 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … men of David are in ſcriptures renowned: yet what were their conqueſts, but over GyantsGiants or fell beaſts? Wee fight not againſt fleſh and bloud: wee encounter and conquer …
    With rule
    … men of David are in ſcriptures renowned: yet what were their conqueſts, but over GyantsGiants or fell beaſts? Wee fight not againſt fleſh and bloud: wee encounter and conquer …

    William Sclater · The Christians Strength · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … selfe or my owne strength; but as Dauid against Goliah; I come against these GyantsGiants, in the name and strength of the Lord, by whom I shall behead them …
    With rule
    … selfe or my owne strength; but as Dauid against Goliah; I come against these GyantsGiants, in the name and strength of the Lord, by whom I shall behead them …

    Thomas Taylor · The Practice of Repentance · p. 197 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Revelat. 22.15. The whores houſe inclineth to death, and her pathes [El rephaijm] to the GyantsGiants. Proverbs 2.18. to that part of hell, where theſe damned monſters are.
    With rule
    … Revelat. 22.15. The whores houſe inclineth to death, and her pathes [El rephaijm] to the GyantsGiants. Proverbs 2.18. to that part of hell, where theſe damned monſters are.

    John Weemes · Exposition of the Moral Law · p. 143 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … violent winde, vpon one only point of the Compasse, new-fangled Opinion. Like the GyantsGiants sonne, they must haue sixe toes on a foote: they hate, not to be …
    With rule
    … violent winde, vpon one only point of the Compasse, new-fangled Opinion. Like the GyantsGiants sonne, they must haue sixe toes on a foote: they hate, not to be …

    Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … yet are they dead in ſinne, and rotted in corruption. They are new vpſtart GyantsGiants, hauing two faces vnder one hood: they come neere vnto God with their mouthes …
    With rule
    … yet are they dead in ſinne, and rotted in corruption. They are new vpſtart GyantsGiants, hauing two faces vnder one hood: they come neere vnto God with their mouthes …

    Henry Greenwood · Works · p. 78 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … of Paul to disharten vs, as thoſe naughty Spies, Nū. 13. who tolde of the GyantsGiants of Canaan, ſo as to quaile the courage of the Iſraelites: but this faithfull …
    With rule
    … of Paul to disharten vs, as thoſe naughty Spies, Nū. 13. who tolde of the GyantsGiants of Canaan, ſo as to quaile the courage of the Iſraelites: but this faithfull …

    Paul Baynes · The Spiritual Armor · p. 104 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    8 Thy affections are set onely on wickednes: they are as mightie gyantsgiants and princes in thee, they haue thee at cōmandement. Remēber, that for very anger …
    With rule
    8 Thy affections are set onely on wickednes: they are as mightie gyantsgiants and princes in thee, they haue thee at cōmandement. Remēber, that for very anger …

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 658 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

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