Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5356 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

faylingsfailings

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

Puritas changed it: 285 times in 133 works
Consistency: 97.9% (285 of 291)
Reach if approved: ~306 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: failings
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 291 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (285 changes in 133 works, 97.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 285)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… difference betweene it, and the prayers of a Miniſter that may bee ſubject to faylingsfailings of humane frailtie. Wee doubt not, but Bilney, Latimer, &c. uſed the prayers and …
With rule
… difference betweene it, and the prayers of a Miniſter that may bee ſubject to faylingsfailings of humane frailtie. Wee doubt not, but Bilney, Latimer, &c. uſed the prayers and …
John Allin · A Defense of the Answer Made Unto Nine Questions · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Every day… brings evill enough with i… there are ſinnes enough th… day, and faylingsfailings, and impe… fections enough this day, a… therefore no need there … to take care …
With rule
… Every day… brings evill enough with i… there are ſinnes enough th… day, and faylingsfailings, and impe… fections enough this day, a… therefore no need there … to take care …
Thomas Hooker · Three Sermons · p. 119 · Open in the reader
Printed
… certainely be performed vnto vs; the want I ſay of this aſſurance cauſeth many faylingsfailings in our ſtate, both of Faith and of obedience; and the want of preparation …
With rule
… certainely be performed vnto vs; the want I ſay of this aſſurance cauſeth many faylingsfailings in our ſtate, both of Faith and of obedience; and the want of preparation …
John Randall · Twenty-Three Sermons · p. 207 · Open in the reader
Printed
… finde in it selfe and in all things of this world, many imperfections, and faylingsfailings of those iust conditions, absolutely necessarie to bee found in Mans soueraign good. Our …
With rule
… finde in it selfe and in all things of this world, many imperfections, and faylingsfailings of those iust conditions, absolutely necessarie to bee found in Mans soueraign good. Our …
Francis Rous · The Art of Happiness · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… one day in every weeke she might extraordinarily humble her selfe for all the faylingsfailings of that weeke, and this with such moderat abstinence as might best fit her …
With rule
… one day in every weeke she might extraordinarily humble her selfe for all the faylingsfailings of that weeke, and this with such moderat abstinence as might best fit her …
Thomas Taylor · The Pilgrims Profession · p. 163 · Open in the reader
Printed
… us a heinous crime, and thereafter take occasion in every company to erect our faylingsfailings very high, like St. Pauls, for the gaze of all, whereas they hide our …
With rule
… us a heinous crime, and thereafter take occasion in every company to erect our faylingsfailings very high, like St. Pauls, for the gaze of all, whereas they hide our …
Richard Younge · The Drunkards Character · p. 363 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is place alwayes left for humble prayer, both to procure Gods pardon for our faylingsfailings, and his speciall grace and blessing in our reuerent vse of his holy Ordinances …
With rule
… is place alwayes left for humble prayer, both to procure Gods pardon for our faylingsfailings, and his speciall grace and blessing in our reuerent vse of his holy Ordinances …
Henry Burton · Truths Triumph Over Trent · p. 279 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſelues therein, yet by the mercy of God the Saints recouer, and ſo their faylingsfailings by the ſpeciall indulgence of the Almighty, are meanes of their more ſound and …
With rule
… ſelues therein, yet by the mercy of God the Saints recouer, and ſo their faylingsfailings by the ſpeciall indulgence of the Almighty, are meanes of their more ſound and …
Thomas Cooper · A Familiar Treatise Laying Down Cases of Conscience · p. 25 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Emblems Ancient and Modern A15631

Printed
AMong the many FaylingsFailings of the Time,
With rule
AMong the many FaylingsFailings of the Time,
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 50 · Open in the reader

The Complaint of a Sanctified Sinner Answered A21258

Printed
Comfort againſt FaylingsFailings cleauing to good actions, p. 380
With rule
Comfort againſt FaylingsFailings cleauing to good actions, p. 380
Edward Elton · The Complaint of a Sanctified Sinner Answered · Open in the reader

One Hundred Select Sermons A44565

Printed
… we are here now call'd, to ſearch and inquire into our private and perſonal FaylingsFailings, whether there may not be ſomewhat ariſing from them.
With rule
… we are here now call'd, to ſearch and inquire into our private and perſonal FaylingsFailings, whether there may not be ſomewhat ariſing from them.
Thomas Horton · One Hundred Select Sermons · p. 89 · Open in the reader

The Sacred Mystery of the Government of the Thoughts B12199

Printed
As firſt, FaylingsFailings in we doing, occaſions theſe Tentations, that it is not in truth, that God …
With rule
As firſt, FaylingsFailings in we doing, occaſions theſe Tentations, that it is not in truth, that God …
Thomas Cooper · The Sacred Mystery of the Government of the Thoughts · p. 440 · Open in the reader