Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5318 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

destroiesdestroys

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

Puritas changed it: 175 times in 101 works
Consistency: 100% (175 of 175)
Reach if approved: ~184 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: destroys
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 175 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (175 changes in 101 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 175)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… excuſe his wickedneſſe. The one diſcomfortes his heart, with too much care. The other deſtroiesdestroys his ſoule, with prophane careleſneſſe. Theſe mens caſes, I confeſſe, are very diuers; yet …
With rule
… excuſe his wickedneſſe. The one diſcomfortes his heart, with too much care. The other deſtroiesdestroys his ſoule, with prophane careleſneſſe. Theſe mens caſes, I confeſſe, are very diuers; yet …
Anthony Wotton · Sermons Upon John 1 · p. 337 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sinne is the root, and the fuell of all sicknesse, and yet that which destroiesdestroys body & soule, is in neither, but in both together; It is in the vnion …
With rule
… sinne is the root, and the fuell of all sicknesse, and yet that which destroiesdestroys body & soule, is in neither, but in both together; It is in the vnion …
John Donne · Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions · p. 580 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this Positiveness is so far from gaining credit to his present affirmation, that it destroiesdestroys it for the future: for he that sees a man make no difference in …
With rule
… this Positiveness is so far from gaining credit to his present affirmation, that it destroiesdestroys it for the future: for he that sees a man make no difference in …
Richard Allestree · The Government of the Tongue · p. 170 · Open in the reader
Printed
… brings them to Poxes, and Feavers, and ſo they deſtroy them, their very ſin deſtroiesdestroys them: and ſo ſome others might be named.
With rule
… brings them to Poxes, and Feavers, and ſo they deſtroy them, their very ſin deſtroiesdestroys them: and ſo ſome others might be named.
Jeremiah Burroughs · An Exposition of Hosea 11-13 · p. 513 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and hours: And when it bubbles forth, it overflows not the whole Land, it destroiesdestroys not the Fields, but keeps it self in the Concaves or hollow places of …
With rule
… and hours: And when it bubbles forth, it overflows not the whole Land, it destroiesdestroys not the Fields, but keeps it self in the Concaves or hollow places of …
Thomas De Laune · A Key to Open Scripture Metaphors · p. 124 · Open in the reader
Printed
1 Cor. 15. 26. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death, that is, death destroiesdestroys all and after is destroied it self.
With rule
1 Cor. 15. 26. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death, that is, death destroiesdestroys all and after is destroied it self.
Edward Leigh · The Saints Encouragement in Evil Times · p. 137 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not seene. Most true, they are not seene, because Faith apprehends them, and sight destroiesdestroys Faith. But what then, are they unknowne too? No, for Faith is foreign, an evident …
With rule
… not seene. Most true, they are not seene, because Faith apprehends them, and sight destroiesdestroys Faith. But what then, are they unknowne too? No, for Faith is foreign, an evident …
William Pemble · A Plea for Grace · p. 187 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of a reprehenſion, which in a diſcreet deliuery, helps the diſeaſe; in an vnwiſe, deſtroiesdestroys nature.
With rule
… of a reprehenſion, which in a diſcreet deliuery, helps the diſeaſe; in an vnwiſe, deſtroiesdestroys nature.
Nehemiah Rogers · A Strange Vineyard in Palestine · p. 6 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.