Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5557 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

waytwait

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

Puritas changed it: 199 times in 85 works
Consistency: 98.5% (199 of 202)
Reach if approved: ~212 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wait
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 202 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (199 changes in 85 works, 98.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 199)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… about like a roaring Lyon seeking whome he may devoure, and doe they not waytwait all opportunities to doe mischiefe? And why may not Angells as well waytwait all …
With rule
… about like a roaring Lyon seeking whome he may devoure, and doe they not waytwait all opportunities to doe mischiefe? And why may not Angells as well waytwait all …
William Twisse · Discovery of Jacksons Vanity · p. 164 · Open in the reader
Printed
He envies ſculls, that waytwait on ſpit and oven,
With rule
He envies ſculls, that waytwait on ſpit and oven,
Nathaniel Whiting · The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to pretend, and dissemble, to lye, to deceiue, and to deale craftely, to lay waytwait, to forsweare, yea and in the end to murther cruelly.
With rule
… to pretend, and dissemble, to lye, to deceiue, and to deale craftely, to lay waytwait, to forsweare, yea and in the end to murther cruelly.
Henrich Bullinger · Confutation of the Popes Bull · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
… serue God with affection neuer so pure and freely imployed, yet must wee alwayes waytwait for that which is promised vs, and staye thereupon. Wee must (I say) hope …
With rule
… serue God with affection neuer so pure and freely imployed, yet must wee alwayes waytwait for that which is promised vs, and staye thereupon. Wee must (I say) hope …
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 962 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Gregory hired this couple of honneſt men, and gaue them their wages, to waytwait at an inch vppon Somers and that not only vntill he had confeſſed he …
With rule
… and Gregory hired this couple of honneſt men, and gaue them their wages, to waytwait at an inch vppon Somers and that not only vntill he had confeſſed he …
John Darrell · The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet · p. 122 · Open in the reader
Printed
… condemned wyth the wycked. You are here likened to Caine whiche did lye in waytwait for his brothers bloude. You are likened to Nimroth huntinge your brethrene to catche …
With rule
… condemned wyth the wycked. You are here likened to Caine whiche did lye in waytwait for his brothers bloude. You are likened to Nimroth huntinge your brethrene to catche …
Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader
Printed
… be enfranchised from synne and deathe. But nowe the second tyme our enemy layeth waytwait agayn for vs, yf he by any mean can pluck vs from this grace …
With rule
… be enfranchised from synne and deathe. But nowe the second tyme our enemy layeth waytwait agayn for vs, yf he by any mean can pluck vs from this grace …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
The third thing to bee done for the obtaining of Gods kingdome, is to waytwait for the possession, and that is neuer giuen till the day of death. And …
With rule
The third thing to bee done for the obtaining of Gods kingdome, is to waytwait for the possession, and that is neuer giuen till the day of death. And …
William Perkins · The Reformation of Covetousness · p. 225 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.