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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5522 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

symeonsimeon

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

Puritas changed it
163 times in 91 works
Consistency
99.3% (163 of 164)
Reach if approved
~172 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
164 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (163 changes in 91 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 163)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … they would not relinquiſh and abandon their wicked opinions, to depart and begone preſently. SymeonSimeon Metaphraſt. in Vita Chryſoſt. The ſame Father reſiſted Gainas, a barbarous Arian captaine, in …
    With rule
    … they would not relinquiſh and abandon their wicked opinions, to depart and begone preſently. SymeonSimeon Metaphraſt. in Vita Chryſoſt. The ſame Father reſiſted Gainas, a barbarous Arian captaine, in …

    Gabriel Powel · Refutation of a Puritan-Papist · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    ¶Nunc dimittis, the prayer of SymeonSimeon Luk ij. Chapter.
    With rule
    ¶Nunc dimittis, the prayer of SymeonSimeon Luk ij. Chapter.

    John Wedderburn · A Compendious Bulk of Godly Psalms and Spiritual Songs · p. 51 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    SymeonSimeon,
    With rule
    SymeonSimeon,

    Hugh Broughton · The Holy Genealogy of Jesus Christ · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Why Peter was called SymeonSimeon. 15. 13
    With rule
    Why Peter was called SymeonSimeon. 15. 13

    John Calvin · Commentary on Acts · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … his Wheate into his Garner, but will burne vp the Chaffe with vnquenchable fire. SymeonSimeon also saith of our Sauiour, that he was appointed both for the fall of …
    With rule
    … his Wheate into his Garner, but will burne vp the Chaffe with vnquenchable fire. SymeonSimeon also saith of our Sauiour, that he was appointed both for the fall of …

    George Downame · A Treatise Concerning Antichrist · p. 54 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Will. SymeonSimeon
    With rule
    Will. SymeonSimeon

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 139 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Dauid was ther born i. Samuell .xvi. and anointed kinge. In the ſame Chapter SymeonSimeon the Prophete whyche had promiſe made by the ſpirit, that he ſhould not ſe …
    With rule
    … Dauid was ther born i. Samuell .xvi. and anointed kinge. In the ſame Chapter SymeonSimeon the Prophete whyche had promiſe made by the ſpirit, that he ſhould not ſe …

    Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    SymeonSimeon was borne, Geneſys, xxix f, He killeth wyth the helpe of Leuy the Sychemptes …
    With rule
    SymeonSimeon was borne, Geneſys, xxix f, He killeth wyth the helpe of Leuy the Sychemptes …

    Henrich Bullinger · Historical Table of the Bible · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Consent of Scripture A16964

  • Printed
    … Leuies tyranny. Gog-clayleg. WORLD Egypt-clayleg. Before God taketh Emmanuel Zorobabel in Mary 6 SYMEONSIMEON, as Iudas and Ionathan made a leage vvith Rome, and Spart. That pleaſed not …
    With rule
    … Leuies tyranny. Gog-clayleg. WORLD Egypt-clayleg. Before God taketh Emmanuel Zorobabel in Mary 6 SYMEONSIMEON, as Iudas and Ionathan made a leage vvith Rome, and Spart. That pleaſed not …

    Hugh Broughton · A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader