Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1531 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

contraryecontrary

A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.

Puritas changed it: 728 times in 205 works
Consistency: 99.0% (728 of 735)
Reach if approved: ~772 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: contrary
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 735 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (728 changes in 205 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 728)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of cityzens, where as no written Lawe is, there be vncertayne opynyons or elles contraryecontrary, for it maye often times fortune, that to other iudges another thyng may beſemed …
With rule
… of cityzens, where as no written Lawe is, there be vncertayne opynyons or elles contraryecontrary, for it maye often times fortune, that to other iudges another thyng may beſemed …
Philipp Melanchthon · A Civil Nosegay · Open in the reader
Printed
And who sayth the contraryecontrary, but that in causes of faith, the Emperour is ordinarily to be instructed of …
With rule
And who sayth the contraryecontrary, but that in causes of faith, the Emperour is ordinarily to be instructed of …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 103 · Open in the reader
Printed
… mee to runne as farre on the other side / as a wheele turned with contraryecontrary motions of the streame / for saying I helde the deare children of GOD might …
With rule
… mee to runne as farre on the other side / as a wheele turned with contraryecontrary motions of the streame / for saying I helde the deare children of GOD might …
John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… many as haue Gods knowledge, roare those ragynge raylers what them lusteth to the contraryecontrary, wyth lyes after theyr leude lykynges, that had it not bene in the feare …
With rule
… many as haue Gods knowledge, roare those ragynge raylers what them lusteth to the contraryecontrary, wyth lyes after theyr leude lykynges, that had it not bene in the feare …
John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader
Printed
… No such promises haue we wythin the Scryptures of God▪ but rather the expresse contraryecontrary. And therfore God is not to be tēpted, but is to be hard, feared …
With rule
… No such promises haue we wythin the Scryptures of God▪ but rather the expresse contraryecontrary. And therfore God is not to be tēpted, but is to be hard, feared …
John Knox · An Admonition to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader
Printed
… without feare of god, clouds w^tout any moisture of gods grace, tossed aboute wyth contraryecontrary wyndes of straūge doctryne, trees passyng sommer tyme w^tout any frutes of good workes …
With rule
… without feare of god, clouds w^tout any moisture of gods grace, tossed aboute wyth contraryecontrary wyndes of straūge doctryne, trees passyng sommer tyme w^tout any frutes of good workes …
Thomas Lever · Sermon Preached at Pauls Cross · Open in the reader
Printed
… man, nother byſſhoppe nor pope / no nor aungels, maye ordayne or commaunde any thynge contraryecontrary / dyſagreinge or repungnyng to y^e thre fyrſt cōmaūdemētes & theyr workes. But yf they go …
With rule
… man, nother byſſhoppe nor pope / no nor aungels, maye ordayne or commaunde any thynge contraryecontrary / dyſagreinge or repungnyng to y^e thre fyrſt cōmaūdemētes & theyr workes. But yf they go …
Martin Luther · Treatise of Good Works · Open in the reader
Printed
… king truth. The Prophete Daniell was cast into the denne of lions, because that contraryecontrary to kynge Darius commaundemente he prated vnto his Lord the God Israell. Which of …
With rule
… king truth. The Prophete Daniell was cast into the denne of lions, because that contraryecontrary to kynge Darius commaundemente he prated vnto his Lord the God Israell. Which of …
Thomas Becon · The Jewel of Joy · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 A02825

Printed
… Matthew become of Publycanes trewe Apostles / and with Paule of ferce persecuters charitable teachers. ContraryeContrary wyse are they consumed to theyr damnacyon / whych beynge ouercomen by the manifest veryte …
With rule
… Matthew become of Publycanes trewe Apostles / and with Paule of ferce persecuters charitable teachers. ContraryeContrary wyse are they consumed to theyr damnacyon / whych beynge ouercomen by the manifest veryte …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… faythe confesseth the eternall magnificence of God / and that non is lyke vnto hym. ContraryeContrary wyse the dragons angels are the hipocrites / lyēge prophetes / and erronyouse teachers.
With rule
… faythe confesseth the eternall magnificence of God / and that non is lyke vnto hym. ContraryeContrary wyse the dragons angels are the hipocrites / lyēge prophetes / and erronyouse teachers.
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · p. 34 · Open in the reader

The Nobles A03850

Printed
… and proued the paſſingſt and worthieſt in all ſortes of learning, of any mortall. ContraryeContrary was Mydas wyſhe. For that foole wiſh… golde. This ſage, wiſedome. O howe vnſeemelye …
With rule
… and proued the paſſingſt and worthieſt in all ſortes of learning, of any mortall. ContraryeContrary was Mydas wyſhe. For that foole wiſh… golde. This ſage, wiſedome. O howe vnſeemelye …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

The Art of Rhetoric A15530

Printed
ii. ContraryeContrary lawes.
With rule
ii. ContraryeContrary lawes.
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
ContraryeContrary lawes.
With rule
ContraryeContrary lawes.
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · p. 52 · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Malachi A72181

Printed
… of the fre wyl of god and hys only grace, freely wythout our deſeruynge, ContraryeContrary to the vayne oppinion of the ſcole men, the ſame chapter and the nexte …
With rule
… of the fre wyl of god and hys only grace, freely wythout our deſeruynge, ContraryeContrary to the vayne oppinion of the ſcole men, the ſame chapter and the nexte …
Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Malachi · Open in the reader