Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5423 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mordecaymordecai

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

Puritas changed it: 317 times in 152 works
Consistency: 100% (317 of 317)
Reach if approved: ~333 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: mordecai
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 317 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (317 changes in 152 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 317)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… this businesse, let them consider that excellent speech of MordecayMordecai to Hester, Hester 4. 24. saith MordecayMordecai to her, If thou holdest thy tongue at this time, deliuerance shall appeare to …
With rule
… this businesse, let them consider that excellent speech of MordecayMordecai to Hester, Hester 4. 24. saith MordecayMordecai to her, If thou holdest thy tongue at this time, deliuerance shall appeare to …
John Preston · Spiritual Life and Death · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Martyrs, Gods people in England, of Lot, Iob, the people in captivity in MordecayMordecai his tyme: wherto I anſwer as I have already done: That Iob was a …
With rule
… the Martyrs, Gods people in England, of Lot, Iob, the people in captivity in MordecayMordecai his tyme: wherto I anſwer as I have already done: That Iob was a …
John Smyth · Parallels Censures · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Were it some stately, some pleasing, yea or but some vaine sight such as MordecayMordecai riding on the kings Horse in pompe with the Royall Furniture: or but a …
With rule
… Were it some stately, some pleasing, yea or but some vaine sight such as MordecayMordecai riding on the kings Horse in pompe with the Royall Furniture: or but a …
Samuel Ward · The Life of Faith in Death Exemplified · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… make obſtinate the heart of Sihon King of Hesbon, Deut. 2.30. If there be a MordecayMordecai, growing into favour with him; there is alſo an Haman, growing out of favour …
With rule
… make obſtinate the heart of Sihon King of Hesbon, Deut. 2.30. If there be a MordecayMordecai, growing into favour with him; there is alſo an Haman, growing out of favour …
Richard Younge · Sin Stigmatized · p. 181 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he was free of the building of Babel: Moses, that stoode upon an hooue: MordecayMordecai that would not bowe his knee; Daniel, that would not hold his window shutte …
With rule
… he was free of the building of Babel: Moses, that stoode upon an hooue: MordecayMordecai that would not bowe his knee; Daniel, that would not hold his window shutte …
David Calderwood · The Pastor and the Prelate · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
MordecayMordecai went out in a crowne of gold, and to the Iewes was come Ioy …
With rule
MordecayMordecai went out in a crowne of gold, and to the Iewes was come Ioy …
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 277 · Open in the reader
Printed
… comfort in it. The Iewes (saith the sacred Story, Est. 8. 16. upon the advancement of MordecayMordecai, and the reversing of Hamans letters) had light and gladnesse and joy and honour …
With rule
… comfort in it. The Iewes (saith the sacred Story, Est. 8. 16. upon the advancement of MordecayMordecai, and the reversing of Hamans letters) had light and gladnesse and joy and honour …
Arthur Hildersham · The Doctrine of Fasting and Prayer · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Deborah and Barack were freed from the Midianites, they ſang praiſes, and ſo did MordecayMordecai and Eſter, when they had the vpper hand of their enemies, euer ſtill we …
With rule
… Deborah and Barack were freed from the Midianites, they ſang praiſes, and ſo did MordecayMordecai and Eſter, when they had the vpper hand of their enemies, euer ſtill we …
John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 44 · 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.