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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5336 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dyestdiest

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

Puritas changed it
156 times in 121 works
Consistency
100% (156 of 156)
Reach if approved
~164 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: diest
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
156 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (156 changes in 121 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 156)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … haue a mind to kill another man, and then art slayne thy selfe, thou dyestdiest a murtherer: if thou preuaile and kill the other, then thou liuest a murtherer …
    With rule
    … haue a mind to kill another man, and then art slayne thy selfe, thou dyestdiest a murtherer: if thou preuaile and kill the other, then thou liuest a murtherer …

    Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 132 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … dye without comfort, thou dyeſtdiest in the ſhip, and not in the ſea, thou dyeſtdiest in Gods way, and there is ſafety, though thou never reach the apprehenſion of …
    With rule
    … dye without comfort, thou dyeſtdiest in the ſhip, and not in the ſea, thou dyeſtdiest in Gods way, and there is ſafety, though thou never reach the apprehenſion of …

    Samuel Bolton · A Tossed Ship Making to Safe Harbor · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … which thou art to leave behind, which ſticks upon thy ſtomach, for when thou dyeſtdiest thou muſt leave all behind thee; a great All ſure, and this alſo in …
    With rule
    … which thou art to leave behind, which ſticks upon thy ſtomach, for when thou dyeſtdiest thou muſt leave all behind thee; a great All ſure, and this alſo in …

    Edward Bury · A Sovereign Antidote Against the Fear of Death · p. 130 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … thou muſt at laſt give over hoping; though thou keep this hope till thou dyeſtdiest, yet then thou ſhalt hope no more; it is as impoſſible for you to …
    With rule
    … thou muſt at laſt give over hoping; though thou keep this hope till thou dyeſtdiest, yet then thou ſhalt hope no more; it is as impoſſible for you to …

    Thomas Doolittle · Captives Bound in Chains Made Free by Christ · p. 112 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … art poor here, yet thou maist be an heir of Heaven, and when thou dyestdiest, with Lazarus be received into Abrahams bosome.
    With rule
    … art poor here, yet thou maist be an heir of Heaven, and when thou dyestdiest, with Lazarus be received into Abrahams bosome.

    Thomas Gouge · Christian Directions · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … will not sit with the wicked Gather not my Soul with Sinners. When thou dyestdiest, thou would'st not have thy soul to be gathered to the place where sinners …
    With rule
    … will not sit with the wicked Gather not my Soul with Sinners. When thou dyestdiest, thou would'st not have thy soul to be gathered to the place where sinners …

    Increase Mather · A Call from Heaven · p. 110 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … thy selfe in patience; and let these meditations be thine ankers: that if thou dyestdiest in thy youth; thou dost but goe the sooner to God, that thou mayest …
    With rule
    … thy selfe in patience; and let these meditations be thine ankers: that if thou dyestdiest in thy youth; thou dost but goe the sooner to God, that thou mayest …

    Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Lords Prayer · p. 44 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … nothing but death. Remoue thy light, thy life is remoued: remoue the Goſpell, thou dyeſtdiest and periſheſt incontinently. And therefore Paul Rom. 5. 21. ſpeaking of this eſtate from Adam to …
    With rule
    … nothing but death. Remoue thy light, thy life is remoued: remoue the Goſpell, thou dyeſtdiest and periſheſt incontinently. And therefore Paul Rom. 5. 21. ſpeaking of this eſtate from Adam to …

    Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon Colossians · p. 110 · 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.