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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5231 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

maydmaid

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

Puritas changed it
211 times in 96 works
Consistency
84.4% (211 of 250)
Reach if approved
~263 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: maid
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
250 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (211 changes in 96 works, 84.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 211)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … made (as he witneſſeth) a couenant with his eyes, not to looke on a maydmaid. The roote of theſe preceptes is to be found in the fift of Deutronomie …
    With rule
    … made (as he witneſſeth) a couenant with his eyes, not to looke on a maydmaid. The roote of theſe preceptes is to be found in the fift of Deutronomie …

    Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 47 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … be to me; as it is in the Psalme, As the eyes of a maydmaid are toward the hand of her Mistris. The obedience of a servant is toward …
    With rule
    … be to me; as it is in the Psalme, As the eyes of a maydmaid are toward the hand of her Mistris. The obedience of a servant is toward …

    Richard Sibbes · Evangelical Sacrifices · p. 175 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    for wydow nor for maydmaid
    With rule
    for wydow nor for maydmaid

    Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … he alleadgeth this in the end of the 14. verſe, that thy manſeruant and thy maydmaid may reſt as well as thou: ſpeaking of them, who as they are moſt …
    With rule
    … he alleadgeth this in the end of the 14. verſe, that thy manſeruant and thy maydmaid may reſt as well as thou: ſpeaking of them, who as they are moſt …

    Nicholas Bownd · The Doctrine of the Sabbath · p. 58 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … too bee no greate harme, if a man should iest and dally with a maydmaid or a wyfe, and prattle of a number of things. But (as I sayd …
    With rule
    … too bee no greate harme, if a man should iest and dally with a maydmaid or a wyfe, and prattle of a number of things. But (as I sayd …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … and that, by the ſenſe … owne ſorrow that day, for the loſſe of one maydmaid ſervant, he might have bene more affected with compaſſion towards them who had many …
    With rule
    … and that, by the ſenſe … owne ſorrow that day, for the loſſe of one maydmaid ſervant, he might have bene more affected with compaſſion towards them who had many …

    John Davenport · Reply to a Book · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … not by himselfe. but Christ our sauiour, he raised vp Lazarus, and this yong maydmaid by his own diuyne power: the wing himself to be very god, and the …
    With rule
    … not by himselfe. but Christ our sauiour, he raised vp Lazarus, and this yong maydmaid by his own diuyne power: the wing himself to be very god, and the …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 107 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … he deale with vs, & farre otherwise then either reason can ymagine, or beleue. This maydmaid before all men is dead. But before mine eyes, sayeth Christ, she lyueth, and …
    With rule
    … he deale with vs, & farre otherwise then either reason can ymagine, or beleue. This maydmaid before all men is dead. But before mine eyes, sayeth Christ, she lyueth, and …

    Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 186 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (39)

8 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 31 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Balm from Gilead to Recover Conscience A14732

  • Printed
    … may well vnderstand, mee thinkes … heare Pauls voyce, and discerne …is Spirit, as the MaydMaid knew Pe…ers voyce. I heare him vse the …ike appeale in the very …
    With rule
    … may well vnderstand, mee thinkes … heare Pauls voyce, and discerne …is Spirit, as the MaydMaid knew Pe…ers voyce. I heare him vse the …ike appeale in the very …

    Samuel Ward · Balm from Gilead to Recover Conscience · p. 23 · Open in the reader

A Guide Unto Godliness A17258

  • Printed
    … am, that by Gods Lawe fornication was death. For if a man take a MaydMaid to be his wife, and ſhee proue not a Virgin, ſhee muſt be ſtoned …
    With rule
    … am, that by Gods Lawe fornication was death. For if a man take a MaydMaid to be his wife, and ſhee proue not a Virgin, ſhee muſt be ſtoned …

    Francis Bunny · A Guide Unto Godliness · p. 192 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Colossians A21260

  • Printed
    … their owne inuention, for they hold and teach that in caſe of vowing, a MaydMaid once out of her nonage, that is (ſay they) at twelue yeeres old or …
    With rule
    … their owne inuention, for they hold and teach that in caſe of vowing, a MaydMaid once out of her nonage, that is (ſay they) at twelue yeeres old or …

    Edward Elton · Exposition of Colossians · p. 1121 · Open in the reader

A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government A29737

  • Printed
    … his consent. Hereupon the Earle posted to the King, relating to him, that the MaydMaid was faire indeed, but nothing answerable to the Fame that went of her: yet …
    With rule
    … his consent. Hereupon the Earle posted to the King, relating to him, that the MaydMaid was faire indeed, but nothing answerable to the Fame that went of her: yet …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the English against Spain; Sir Walter Rawleigh Captain of the Guard, having defloured a MaydMaid of Honor (whom afterward he married) had lost the Queens favour, and was held …
    With rule
    … the English against Spain; Sir Walter Rawleigh Captain of the Guard, having defloured a MaydMaid of Honor (whom afterward he married) had lost the Queens favour, and was held …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 92 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

  • Printed
    Ioane Warren, alias Lashford, MaydMaid.
    With rule
    Ioane Warren, alias Lashford, MaydMaid.

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1844 · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

  • Printed
    MaydMaid of Ipſwich. 284. b
    With rule
    MaydMaid of Ipſwich. 284. b

    William Tyndale · Whole Works · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    MaydMaid of Kent inſpired. 285. a. receiued ſmall pleaſure of our Lady. 285. a
    With rule
    MaydMaid of Kent inſpired. 285. a. receiued ſmall pleaſure of our Lady. 285. a

    William Tyndale · Whole Works · Open in the reader