Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5152 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pyratespirates

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

Puritas changed it: 180 times in 97 works
Consistency: 92.7% (180 of 194)
Reach if approved: ~204 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pirates
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 194 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (180 changes in 97 works, 92.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 180)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Bullet; or at Sea, and ſeen our Conſort ſunk by Tempeſt, or taken by PyratesPirates; or in the Citie, and ſeen the Peſtilence devour our Parents above us, our …
With rule
… Bullet; or at Sea, and ſeen our Conſort ſunk by Tempeſt, or taken by PyratesPirates; or in the Citie, and ſeen the Peſtilence devour our Parents above us, our …
John Donne · Twenty-Six Sermons · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſuch as Murderers, Thieves and Adulterers, v. 14, 15. who ſhun the light, v. 16, 17.) and of PyratesPirates by Sea, v. 18. All which, notwithſtanding their wickedneſs, are cut off only in the …
With rule
… ſuch as Murderers, Thieves and Adulterers, v. 14, 15. who ſhun the light, v. 16, 17.) and of PyratesPirates by Sea, v. 18. All which, notwithſtanding their wickedneſs, are cut off only in the …
George Hutcheson · Exposition of Job · p. 348 · Open in the reader
Printed
… dictates of Nature, and muſt have ſubmitted to their own Slaves, or to the PyratesPirates, rather than run the hazard of loſing ſome Mens lives. You do not prove …
With rule
… dictates of Nature, and muſt have ſubmitted to their own Slaves, or to the PyratesPirates, rather than run the hazard of loſing ſome Mens lives. You do not prove …
John Milton · Defense of the People of England · p. 113 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a Man of Warre; One ſtout ſhip of Warre being a better guard againſt PyratesPirates and Sea-enemies then all the Maritine forts and garriſons, being able to purſue …
With rule
… a Man of Warre; One ſtout ſhip of Warre being a better guard againſt PyratesPirates and Sea-enemies then all the Maritine forts and garriſons, being able to purſue …
William Prynne · Eight Military Aphorisms · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… falling. No Vessels are in such hope of security, and to be defended from PyratesPirates, as those that sail with so strong a Convoy. As God hath set conscience …
With rule
… falling. No Vessels are in such hope of security, and to be defended from PyratesPirates, as those that sail with so strong a Convoy. As God hath set conscience …
George Swinnock · Works · p. 249 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Robbers, that ramage the Popes coaſts, from Mount Argentario to Terracina, as if the PyratesPirates vpon the coaſts of England, and France, and Spaine, were not as guilty as …
With rule
… Robbers, that ramage the Popes coaſts, from Mount Argentario to Terracina, as if the PyratesPirates vpon the coaſts of England, and France, and Spaine, were not as guilty as …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 375 · Open in the reader
Printed
How manie good and godlie persons haue their Husbands taken by PyratesPirates, pyned in Galleyes, rotting in prisons, slaine by poysō, stobbed in duells, murthered by …
With rule
How manie good and godlie persons haue their Husbands taken by PyratesPirates, pyned in Galleyes, rotting in prisons, slaine by poysō, stobbed in duells, murthered by …
Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 1223 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Merchant of Ithaca, who at Sea eſpying an aged man, a Captive in a PyratesPirates ſhip, took compaſſion of him, and redeemed him, and bought his Commodities which the …
With rule
… Merchant of Ithaca, who at Sea eſpying an aged man, a Captive in a PyratesPirates ſhip, took compaſſion of him, and redeemed him, and bought his Commodities which the …
Thomas Brooks · Apples of Gold · p. 132 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Ready Way to Good Works A09275

Printed
… his expectation. Many of our Chriſtian brethren are too often taken both by ſea-pyratespirates, and land robbers by Turks abroad, and Dunkerks at home: my meaning is, that …
With rule
… his expectation. Many of our Chriſtian brethren are too often taken both by ſea-pyratespirates, and land robbers by Turks abroad, and Dunkerks at home: my meaning is, that …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 381 · Open in the reader

The Christians Compass A36938

Printed
… its Decks. Here are inſtruments of war; guns, &c. to ſecure from enemies and pyratespirates, as well as Commodities to traffick withall. all. And ſurely (O my ſoul) it …
With rule
… its Decks. Here are inſtruments of war; guns, &c. to ſecure from enemies and pyratespirates, as well as Commodities to traffick withall. all. And ſurely (O my ſoul) it …
John Durant · The Christians Compass · p. 73 · Open in the reader