Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4159 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

payntedpainted

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

Puritas changed it: 281 times in 143 works
Consistency: 98.6% (281 of 285)
Reach if approved: ~299 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: painted
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 285 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (281 changes in 143 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 281)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of the Lawe be craftly wreſted, and ſome be exaggerated without meaſure, and be payntedpainted with a certtayne colour, Some be abiected and deformed, and all theſe be taken …
With rule
… of the Lawe be craftly wreſted, and ſome be exaggerated without meaſure, and be payntedpainted with a certtayne colour, Some be abiected and deformed, and all theſe be taken …
Philipp Melanchthon · A Civil Nosegay · Open in the reader
Printed
… none of them drunke but when he listed, some of them had their faces payntedpainted blacke, from the forehead to the chin, foure or fiue fingers broad; others after …
With rule
… none of them drunke but when he listed, some of them had their faces payntedpainted blacke, from the forehead to the chin, foure or fiue fingers broad; others after …
William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… women, without meaſure, till God ſtay them by adverſitie and ſome hard handling. Phidias payntedpainted the picture of Venus treading on a Snaile, which onely amongſt all creatures wanteth …
With rule
… women, without meaſure, till God ſtay them by adverſitie and ſome hard handling. Phidias payntedpainted the picture of Venus treading on a Snaile, which onely amongſt all creatures wanteth …
Archibald Simson · Exposition on the Seven Psalms of Repentance · p. 101 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and soules of men had bodies, were visible and circumscriptible, and therefore must bee payntedpainted, affirming this to be y^e iudgement of the Catholike Church: Bristowe answereth, that I …
With rule
… and soules of men had bodies, were visible and circumscriptible, and therefore must bee payntedpainted, affirming this to be y^e iudgement of the Catholike Church: Bristowe answereth, that I …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
And payntedpainted hypocrytes.
With rule
And payntedpainted hypocrytes.
John Bale · Answer to a Papistical Exhortation · Open in the reader
Printed
… yt ys moche leſſe daunger to offende a godlye mynded woman, than a proude payntedpainted whore, a meke ſpreted ladye, than a malycyouſe modye qweane. For pacyētlye wyll ſhe …
With rule
… yt ys moche leſſe daunger to offende a godlye mynded woman, than a proude payntedpainted whore, a meke ſpreted ladye, than a malycyouſe modye qweane. For pacyētlye wyll ſhe …
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader
Printed
… trueth howe the Popyſſhe church myght or coulde be more goodly, compendiouſly and playnelyer payntedpainted or deſcrybed, for doubteles ſhe is the deuourynge of hel, where vnto ſhe abydeth …
With rule
… trueth howe the Popyſſhe church myght or coulde be more goodly, compendiouſly and playnelyer payntedpainted or deſcrybed, for doubteles ſhe is the deuourynge of hel, where vnto ſhe abydeth …
Martin Luther · The Chief and Principal Articles of the Christian Faith · Open in the reader
Printed
… cōfusion, maske they wyth neuer so pleasaunt a visare, and bable wyth neuer so payntedpainted eloquence in the syghte and eares of the simple and ignorante people. Howe shall …
With rule
… cōfusion, maske they wyth neuer so pleasaunt a visare, and bable wyth neuer so payntedpainted eloquence in the syghte and eares of the simple and ignorante people. Howe shall …
Thomas Becon · The Fortress of the Faithful Against the Cruel Assaults of Poverty and Hunger · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 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.

A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government A29737

Printed
… Ianuary, in that roome of his Palace at Westminster, which is now called the PayntedPainted Chamber, in the yeare 1066. and was buryed in the Church at Westminster, which he …
With rule
… Ianuary, in that roome of his Palace at Westminster, which is now called the PayntedPainted Chamber, in the yeare 1066. and was buryed in the Church at Westminster, which he …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 25 · Open in the reader