Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5221 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bytingbiting

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

Puritas changed it: 144 times in 97 works
Consistency: 96.6% (144 of 149)
Reach if approved: ~157 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: biting
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 149 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (144 changes in 97 works, 96.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 144)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſhould tickle it. Salt is better for it, then Oyle: though it bee more bytingbiting, it is much more ſoueraigne.
With rule
… ſhould tickle it. Salt is better for it, then Oyle: though it bee more bytingbiting, it is much more ſoueraigne.
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 121 · Open in the reader
Printed
… only beholde the nature thereof: the other is whereby by experience or ſome certayne bytingbiting, we haue a féeling thereof, in our ſelues. And this latter way is the …
With rule
… only beholde the nature thereof: the other is whereby by experience or ſome certayne bytingbiting, we haue a féeling thereof, in our ſelues. And this latter way is the …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · p. 164 · Open in the reader
Printed
… still! I say, as this thought will endlesly haunt the damned angels with vnconceiueable bytingbiting and anguish; so, not onely an answerable selfe-fretting torture from this conceit; Alas …
With rule
… still! I say, as this thought will endlesly haunt the damned angels with vnconceiueable bytingbiting and anguish; so, not onely an answerable selfe-fretting torture from this conceit; Alas …
Robert Bolton · Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God · p. 158 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Serpent ſhould be looked on in the wilderneſſe, and without which looking on, the bytingbiting or ſtinging of the Serpentes was alwayes deadly: Euen ſo at this day, is …
With rule
… Serpent ſhould be looked on in the wilderneſſe, and without which looking on, the bytingbiting or ſtinging of the Serpentes was alwayes deadly: Euen ſo at this day, is …
John Calvin · Sermons on Divinity Humanity and Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 134 · Open in the reader
Printed
… preuaile with our fraile nature, to make vs take ſuch an vnpleaſing potion or bytingbiting coraſiue, then the certaintie of the good it will doe vs; therefore we will …
With rule
… preuaile with our fraile nature, to make vs take ſuch an vnpleaſing potion or bytingbiting coraſiue, then the certaintie of the good it will doe vs; therefore we will …
Ezekiel Culverwell · A Treatise of Faith · p. 390 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their Dogges, They are Well-mouth'd; or rather, Ill-mouthd▪ For an ordinary Dogges bytingbiting doth not ranckle so sore as their licking. Of all Dogges they are best …
With rule
… their Dogges, They are Well-mouth'd; or rather, Ill-mouthd▪ For an ordinary Dogges bytingbiting doth not ranckle so sore as their licking. Of all Dogges they are best …
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
With frothing teethe bytingbiting his bridle bitte.
With rule
With frothing teethe bytingbiting his bridle bitte.
Petrus Ramus · The Logic Newly Translated · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Neuertheleſſe, when the Lords hand ſhall but worke a little againſt them, and the bytingbiting of their own conſciences returne, then all their courage falleth downe on a ſudden …
With rule
… Neuertheleſſe, when the Lords hand ſhall but worke a little againſt them, and the bytingbiting of their own conſciences returne, then all their courage falleth downe on a ſudden …
Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 234 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

4 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.

Comforting Afflicted Consciences A16330

Printed
6. BytingBiting it in, as they say, and not opening the wound of Conscience betime to …
With rule
6. BytingBiting it in, as they say, and not opening the wound of Conscience betime to …
Robert Bolton · Comforting Afflicted Consciences · p. 465 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

Printed
… Thou shalt not bite with biting. And so the worde of Gnawing or of BytingBiting, by a borrowed speach is taken for vsurie. And why? Bicause it byteth and …
With rule
… Thou shalt not bite with biting. And so the worde of Gnawing or of BytingBiting, by a borrowed speach is taken for vsurie. And why? Bicause it byteth and …
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 822 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the terme, but consider what is signified thereby. Nowe that which is heere called BytingBiting, is verie manifest. And why? For wee see what Gods meaning is, and the …
With rule
… the terme, but consider what is signified thereby. Nowe that which is heere called BytingBiting, is verie manifest. And why? For wee see what Gods meaning is, and the …
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 822 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Job A69056

Printed
Of Barking, and BytingBiting.
With rule
Of Barking, and BytingBiting.
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · Open in the reader