Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5257 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

aymaim

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

Puritas changed it: 279 times in 143 works
Consistency: 95.5% (279 of 292)
Reach if approved: ~307 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: aim
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 292 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (279 changes in 143 works, 95.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 279)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the greatest and most pernicious Adversary that he hath in this world. Now the aymaim and design of all these, is to dethrone him by the ruine of his …
With rule
… the greatest and most pernicious Adversary that he hath in this world. Now the aymaim and design of all these, is to dethrone him by the ruine of his …
John Owen · Exercitation on Hebrews · p. 136 · Open in the reader
Printed
… choosing and preferring him above all other good things, making him our end and aymaim, in life, in death, in doing, in suffering Rom. 4 7.8. Thirdly, a thankfull acknowledgement of …
With rule
… choosing and preferring him above all other good things, making him our end and aymaim, in life, in death, in doing, in suffering Rom. 4 7.8. Thirdly, a thankfull acknowledgement of …
Edward Reynolds · Israels Prayer in Time of Trouble · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… aymaim at the verie perfection, which the Law of God requires. Men in shooting aymaim at the White, though sometime they misse the But. Onely the Law of God …
With rule
… aymaim at the verie perfection, which the Law of God requires. Men in shooting aymaim at the White, though sometime they misse the But. Onely the Law of God …
John Robinson · Observations Divine and Moral · p. 116 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the ſenſe of our own vileneſs, and emptineſs, and inability; and if we aymaim at God's honour, and power, and praiſe, and glory, it is a good ſign …
With rule
… in the ſenſe of our own vileneſs, and emptineſs, and inability; and if we aymaim at God's honour, and power, and praiſe, and glory, it is a good ſign …
Isaac Ambrose · Looking Unto Jesus · p. 457 · Open in the reader
Printed
… battel, it was unwittingly done, and at all adventure) but he hath a steddy aymaim. He sets up a sinner as his mark, at which he levels and directs …
With rule
… battel, it was unwittingly done, and at all adventure) but he hath a steddy aymaim. He sets up a sinner as his mark, at which he levels and directs …
Ralph Brownrig · Twenty-Five Sermons · p. 221 · Open in the reader
Printed
… The pretence of projectors is the honour or benefit of the King, but they aymaim at their own ends, though it be in the ruine of the subjects.
With rule
… The pretence of projectors is the honour or benefit of the King, but they aymaim at their own ends, though it be in the ruine of the subjects.
John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader
Printed
… more, becauſe the Phyſician is a man, and may miſs of his end and aymaim; but God cannot, becauſe of his infinite wiſdome and knowledge: therefore alſo we muſt …
With rule
… more, becauſe the Phyſician is a man, and may miſs of his end and aymaim; but God cannot, becauſe of his infinite wiſdome and knowledge: therefore alſo we muſt …
William Gearing · Gods Sovereignty Displayed from Job 9:12 · p. 163 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it, but in simplicity of heart run the wayes of God, making this their aymaim, that they may glorify him. Now all these high commendations of the word, should …
With rule
… it, but in simplicity of heart run the wayes of God, making this their aymaim, that they may glorify him. Now all these high commendations of the word, should …
Thomas Hall · A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 · p. 285 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

1 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.

Of the Mortification of sin in Believers A53715

Printed
… purifie unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works, Tit. 2.14. This was his AymAim and Intendment (wherein he will not fail) in his giving himself for us. That …
With rule
… purifie unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works, Tit. 2.14. This was his AymAim and Intendment (wherein he will not fail) in his giving himself for us. That …
John Owen · Of the Mortification of sin in Believers · p. 173 · Open in the reader