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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4029 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

obtaynedobtained

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

Puritas changed it
707 times in 250 works
Consistency
99.8% (707 of 708)
Reach if approved
~744 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: obtained
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
708 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (707 changes in 250 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 707)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … prayer the womā of Canane obtaynedobtained health for her doughter. By Prayer dyuers men obtaynedobtained helth for theyr sonnes & seruauntes By prayer the lame were restored to the ryght …
    With rule
    … prayer the womā of Canane obtaynedobtained health for her doughter. By Prayer dyuers men obtaynedobtained helth for theyr sonnes & seruauntes By prayer the lame were restored to the ryght …

    Thomas Becon · A New Pathway Unto Prayer · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … first vvas, but thankes be to God it vvas both orderly kept, and vvell obtaynedobtained. For vpon better information giuen to the Right Honorable the Lord Burleigh, Lorde high …
    With rule
    … first vvas, but thankes be to God it vvas both orderly kept, and vvell obtaynedobtained. For vpon better information giuen to the Right Honorable the Lord Burleigh, Lorde high …

    John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … neuer so manye repulses, yet would she neuer be driuen away, vntyll she had obtaynedobtained her request: styll crying, Lord helpe me, as though she would say: thou maiest …
    With rule
    … neuer so manye repulses, yet would she neuer be driuen away, vntyll she had obtaynedobtained her request: styll crying, Lord helpe me, as though she would say: thou maiest …

    William Fulke · A Comfortable Sermon of Faith in Temptations · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … we ſee the thing is wrought by thoſe meanes which could not otherwiſe be obtaynedobtained, Satan is expelled, and eaſe hath followed. Hath Satan expelled Satā? or hath he …
    With rule
    … we ſee the thing is wrought by thoſe meanes which could not otherwiſe be obtaynedobtained, Satan is expelled, and eaſe hath followed. Hath Satan expelled Satā? or hath he …

    George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … to any diſgrace by want of good methode in mee to diſpoſe it. This obtaynedobtained, I deſire no more, but wiſh the growing of Gods truth, and religion amongſt …
    With rule
    … to any diſgrace by want of good methode in mee to diſpoſe it. This obtaynedobtained, I deſire no more, but wiſh the growing of Gods truth, and religion amongſt …

    Francis Hastings · A Watch-Word to All Religious and True Hearted Englishmen · p. 126 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the Deuill was the god of the Heathen; with the meanes by which he obtaynedobtained that honour.
    With rule
    … the Deuill was the god of the Heathen; with the meanes by which he obtaynedobtained that honour.

    Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … victories are of God. Samuel ſpeaking of the victories that David and his worthies obtaynedobtained: and the Lord wrought a great victory that day. God is ſaid to giue …
    With rule
    … victories are of God. Samuel ſpeaking of the victories that David and his worthies obtaynedobtained: and the Lord wrought a great victory that day. God is ſaid to giue …

    Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 227 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … workꝭ, wherwith we maye haue, worſhyppe, and ſerue god. For god can be nother obtaynedobtained nor loſte by any worke, but onely be fayth or vnbyleue / by truſte or …
    With rule
    … workꝭ, wherwith we maye haue, worſhyppe, and ſerue god. For god can be nother obtaynedobtained nor loſte by any worke, but onely be fayth or vnbyleue / by truſte or …

    Martin Luther · Treatise of Good Works · 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.

Commentary on Romans A14353

  • Printed
    I ObtaynedObtained mercy, for that I did it ignorantly, and of infidelitie. 2. b
    With rule
    I ObtaynedObtained mercy, for that I did it ignorantly, and of infidelitie. 2. b

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader