Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2360 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

detainedetain

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

Puritas changed it: 456 times in 277 works
Consistency: 99.5% (456 of 458)
Reach if approved: ~481 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: detain
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 458 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (456 changes in 277 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 456)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… for all estates for certaine causes it is not conuenient, in that they would detainedetain some from their callings: from which if they should rest, they should incurre both …
With rule
… for all estates for certaine causes it is not conuenient, in that they would detainedetain some from their callings: from which if they should rest, they should incurre both …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 170 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſee it, and take poſſeſsion of it? And if any man ſhould offer to detainedetain it, would he not ſtriue with all might, and ſue for it at the …
With rule
… ſee it, and take poſſeſsion of it? And if any man ſhould offer to detainedetain it, would he not ſtriue with all might, and ſue for it at the …
Paul Baynes · The Mirror or Miracle of Gods Love Unto the World of His Elect · p. 64 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſuttleties to race out of our hearts the remembrance of death, ſo for to detainedetain vs in the thoughts of vanitie, and to entangle vs in the ſnares of …
With rule
… ſuttleties to race out of our hearts the remembrance of death, ſo for to detainedetain vs in the thoughts of vanitie, and to entangle vs in the ſnares of …
Theodore Beza · Household Prayers · Open in the reader
Printed
… unto Christ (Thine they were & thou gavest them unto me. Ioh. 17.6.) and shall they detainedetain themselves from him? what is it that he gives unto his Sonne but the …
With rule
… unto Christ (Thine they were & thou gavest them unto me. Ioh. 17.6.) and shall they detainedetain themselves from him? what is it that he gives unto his Sonne but the …
Edward Reynolds · Explication of Psalm 110 · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… spoken of as one man; therefore the Chaldee expoundeth it, hee will yet againe detainedetain them, or make them to tarry. But the Greeke seemeth to understand it of …
With rule
… spoken of as one man; therefore the Chaldee expoundeth it, hee will yet againe detainedetain them, or make them to tarry. But the Greeke seemeth to understand it of …
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 191 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſo bold as ſome others, I will adde no more, neither will I longer detainedetain thee, gentle reader, from Gods word of life and death, nor from the life …
With rule
… ſo bold as ſome others, I will adde no more, neither will I longer detainedetain thee, gentle reader, from Gods word of life and death, nor from the life …
Richard Stock · The Churchs Lamentation for the Loss of the Godly · Open in the reader
Printed
… are vsurers else? who oppressors else? who grinde the faces of the poore? who detainedetain the wages of poore seruants, but they? For a man to breake the Sabbath …
With rule
… are vsurers else? who oppressors else? who grinde the faces of the poore? who detainedetain the wages of poore seruants, but they? For a man to breake the Sabbath …
Thomas Taylor · Christs Combat and Conquest · p. 222 · Open in the reader
Printed
But why should I detainedetain thee (Honourable Lady) any longer? Or what doe you (Beloued) expect more? That our …
With rule
But why should I detainedetain thee (Honourable Lady) any longer? Or what doe you (Beloued) expect more? That our …
Hannibal Gamon · The Praise of a Godly Woman · p. 34 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

Defense from the Imputation of Self Contradiction by Daniel Cawdry A34675

Printed
… they are the first Subject of all Church-Povver properly, two or three things DetaineDetain me from consenting with him herein. 1. That vvhich is the first Subject of any …
With rule
… they are the first Subject of all Church-Povver properly, two or three things DetaineDetain me from consenting with him herein. 1. That vvhich is the first Subject of any …
John Cotton · Defense from the Imputation of Self Contradiction by Daniel Cawdry · p. 50 · Open in the reader