Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5421 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mockeriemockery

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

Puritas changed it: 225 times in 102 works
Consistency: 99.5% (225 of 226)
Reach if approved: ~237 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: mockery
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 226 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (225 changes in 102 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 225)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the word of God, and yet wee set by nothing lesse: this is plaine mockeriemockery to beare the world in hand that we loue the word, and yet our …
With rule
… the word of God, and yet wee set by nothing lesse: this is plaine mockeriemockery to beare the world in hand that we loue the word, and yet our …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 818 · Open in the reader
Printed
… one name and title, then an o…her, and indeed it is a meete mockeriemockery of the Lord Iesus, so to trifle with some of his attributes, who is …
With rule
… one name and title, then an o…her, and indeed it is a meete mockeriemockery of the Lord Iesus, so to trifle with some of his attributes, who is …
John Bastwick · Answer to John Banks · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Almightie: and beeing carelessely practised, when it is once knowne, it is plaine mockeriemockery of Gods maiestie, worser then mocking of father or mother: and therefore we must …
With rule
… the Almightie: and beeing carelessely practised, when it is once knowne, it is plaine mockeriemockery of Gods maiestie, worser then mocking of father or mother: and therefore we must …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 258 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in spirituall actions, wee commit either sacriledge in robbing God of his due; or mockeriemockery, by praising him for that which we hold to be of our selves; if …
With rule
… in spirituall actions, wee commit either sacriledge in robbing God of his due; or mockeriemockery, by praising him for that which we hold to be of our selves; if …
Richard Sibbes · The Souls Conflict With Itself · p. 444 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in, and prayer without use of meanes, where appointed and afforded, is but a mockeriemockery.
With rule
… in, and prayer without use of meanes, where appointed and afforded, is but a mockeriemockery.
Thomas Taylor · Two Sermons · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… then a dead karcast without a soule, yea they are filthy hyp…crisie, and mockeriemockery of God, and lothsome abomination in his sight as the Lord by the Prophet …
With rule
… then a dead karcast without a soule, yea they are filthy hyp…crisie, and mockeriemockery of God, and lothsome abomination in his sight as the Lord by the Prophet …
George Walker · The Doctrine of the Sabbath · p. 160 · Open in the reader
Printed
… desire baptisme, or forsake the Devill. It is a foolish thing therefore, and great mockeriemockery of Gods service to demand that of infants, which was at the first demanded …
With rule
… desire baptisme, or forsake the Devill. It is a foolish thing therefore, and great mockeriemockery of Gods service to demand that of infants, which was at the first demanded …
David Calderwood · The Altar of Damascus · p. 203 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Angels of heauen. For if the mouth speake alone, surely it is but flat mockeriemockery. And although men allow of vs for it: yit dooth God refuze our paying …
With rule
… Angels of heauen. For if the mouth speake alone, surely it is but flat mockeriemockery. And although men allow of vs for it: yit dooth God refuze our paying …
John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · p. 272 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.