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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5545 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

untyuntie

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

Puritas changed it
160 times in 134 works
Consistency
99.3% (160 of 161)
Reach if approved
~169 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: untie
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
161 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (160 changes in 134 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 160)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … being a hard knot. I truſt the Lord will the more help me to untyuntie it, & ſo to take this Stumbling block out of the way of his people.
    With rule
    … being a hard knot. I truſt the Lord will the more help me to untyuntie it, & ſo to take this Stumbling block out of the way of his people.

    John Canne · the Time of Finding · p. 274 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … path, being wraped up in your own objections, 'tis not in your power to untyuntie the knots of this Propoſition. Give me leave then to prove the conſubſtantiality (that …
    With rule
    … path, being wraped up in your own objections, 'tis not in your power to untyuntie the knots of this Propoſition. Give me leave then to prove the conſubſtantiality (that …

    Jean Daille · Faith Grounded Upon the Holy Scriptures Against the New Methodists · p. 50 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … can give us a gift of boldneſſe to feare no mens faces. He can untyuntie our ſtammering tongues that we ſhall have liberty in ſpeaking. He can make our …
    With rule
    … can give us a gift of boldneſſe to feare no mens faces. He can untyuntie our ſtammering tongues that we ſhall have liberty in ſpeaking. He can make our …

    William Fenner · Christs Alarm to Drowsy Saints · p. 140 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … ready to receive him for Messiah, he told them he was not worthy to untyuntie his sho…s, and was glad when he could fix that Honour on Jesus …
    With rule
    … ready to receive him for Messiah, he told them he was not worthy to untyuntie his sho…s, and was glad when he could fix that Honour on Jesus …

    John Kettlewell · The Practical Believer · p. 100 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ſhould be transform'd into an heroick Virtue among Chriſtians, will want ſome Oedipus to untyuntie the knot.
    With rule
    … ſhould be transform'd into an heroick Virtue among Chriſtians, will want ſome Oedipus to untyuntie the knot.

    John Martin · Gods Own Law of Determining Controversies · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    W…ich Answers upon O…th, almost untyuntie,
    With rule
    W…ich Answers upon O…th, almost untyuntie,

    George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · p. 187 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … holy Father pardon this time, and I will take more heed. Oh come and untyuntie my thoughts from this earth, and come and dreſs me up as beſt pleaſeth …
    With rule
    … holy Father pardon this time, and I will take more heed. Oh come and untyuntie my thoughts from this earth, and come and dreſs me up as beſt pleaſeth …

    Richard Baxter · Monthly Preparations for Holy Communion · p. 115 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the Church moſt flouriſhed and had no cauſe to hide; But Con…anti… b…untyuntie and leaving Rome to the Popes government was the cauſe that p…eſently Rome …
    With rule
    … the Church moſt flouriſhed and had no cauſe to hide; But Con…anti… b…untyuntie and leaving Rome to the Popes government was the cauſe that p…eſently Rome …

    Thomas Brightman · A Commentary on the Song of Solomon · p. 1084 · 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.

Remains A65835

  • Printed
    UntyUntie her cables, to his men doth cry,
    With rule
    UntyUntie her cables, to his men doth cry,

    Thomas Wadsworth · Remains · p. 185 · Open in the reader