Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7582 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cryescries

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it: 3,408 times in 1,329 works
Consistency: 99.9% (3,408 of 3,411)
Reach if approved: ~3,585 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: cries
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,412 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,408 changes in 1,329 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,408)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… it is compared to Tophet, in regard of the terrible tortures, and pitious out-cryescries of the condemned.
With rule
… it is compared to Tophet, in regard of the terrible tortures, and pitious out-cryescries of the condemned.
Henry Greenwood · Works · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… any other like venemous creature, therefore hee no sooner meetes with it, but hee cryescries, kill it straight, and desires to see the death of it. And even so …
With rule
… any other like venemous creature, therefore hee no sooner meetes with it, but hee cryescries, kill it straight, and desires to see the death of it. And even so …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 71 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and euill which offer them. Let him ſee your publique humiliation with teares and cryescries: and let the prieſts confeſſe your ſinnes, and ioyne with them in your hearts …
With rule
… and euill which offer them. Let him ſee your publique humiliation with teares and cryescries: and let the prieſts confeſſe your ſinnes, and ioyne with them in your hearts …
Henry Holland · The Christian Exercise of Fasting · p. 78 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Trumpet, and setting the same vp in such places of your Iurisdiction, where cryescries and Proclamations are vsually made, to the ende that euery one mighte knowe it …
With rule
… of Trumpet, and setting the same vp in such places of your Iurisdiction, where cryescries and Proclamations are vsually made, to the ende that euery one mighte knowe it …
François Hotman · The Furious Outrages of France and the Horrible Slaughter · p. CIII · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſaid before, It is good to be here: forgetting wife, lands, and living he cryescries. It is good to be here, ſo ſweete is the preſence of the Lord …
With rule
… ſaid before, It is good to be here: forgetting wife, lands, and living he cryescries. It is good to be here, ſo ſweete is the preſence of the Lord …
Benjamin King · The Marriage of the Lamb · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Nature; a Synechdoche. Heb. 5.7. In the dayes of His fleſh He offred up ſtrong cryescries to God. For this our Nature is an inſtrument perſonally united, wherein the ſecond …
With rule
… Nature; a Synechdoche. Heb. 5.7. In the dayes of His fleſh He offred up ſtrong cryescries to God. For this our Nature is an inſtrument perſonally united, wherein the ſecond …
Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Colossians 1 and 2 · p. 132 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hell; yet in the dayes of his fleſh he offered up prayers with ſtrong cryescries to him that was able to ſave him. Saint Paul was aſſured by faith …
With rule
… hell; yet in the dayes of his fleſh he offered up prayers with ſtrong cryescries to him that was able to ſave him. Saint Paul was aſſured by faith …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 356 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hearts, knowes how ill this would be in a Magistrate: a heart, which no cryescries of Orphans, no teares of Widowes, no mourning of the oppressed, can melt into …
With rule
… hearts, knowes how ill this would be in a Magistrate: a heart, which no cryescries of Orphans, no teares of Widowes, no mourning of the oppressed, can melt into …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 66 · 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.