Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4178 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

restraynedrestrained

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

Puritas changed it: 385 times in 186 works
Consistency: 99.4% (385 of 387)
Reach if approved: ~407 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: restrained
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 387 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (385 changes in 186 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 385)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… a time to bewayle her virginitie, & then put a parte to the Lorde, and reſtraynedrestrained from mariage, for ſo they thought it muſt be, and it is ſaid ſhe …
With rule
… a time to bewayle her virginitie, & then put a parte to the Lorde, and reſtraynedrestrained from mariage, for ſo they thought it muſt be, and it is ſaid ſhe …
George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · p. 139 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in thy ſubiects? Didſt thou want ſtore of wines of thine owne? wert thou reſtraynedrestrained from taking more? was there no beauty in Iſrael, but in a ſubiects mariage …
With rule
… in thy ſubiects? Didſt thou want ſtore of wines of thine owne? wert thou reſtraynedrestrained from taking more? was there no beauty in Iſrael, but in a ſubiects mariage …
Joseph Hall · History of the Old Testament Volume 5 · p. 237 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in it, as very shame of men, if no feare of God, might haue restraynedrestrained his lying lippes, and kept him from blaspheming vs with so black a mouth.
With rule
… in it, as very shame of men, if no feare of God, might haue restraynedrestrained his lying lippes, and kept him from blaspheming vs with so black a mouth.
Francis Johnson · Inquiry and Answer of Thomas Whites Discovery of Brownism · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reprehēd the horrible wickednes of Antichrist and hys ministers. To this end they haue restraynedrestrained all the laity throughout Christendome, from readyng the Scriptures, and haue forbydden them to …
With rule
… reprehēd the horrible wickednes of Antichrist and hys ministers. To this end they haue restraynedrestrained all the laity throughout Christendome, from readyng the Scriptures, and haue forbydden them to …
Martin Luther · Sermon Concerning the Coming of our Savior · Open in the reader
Printed
… that is, the crowne of thy glory, euen euerlasting life. This must not be restraynedrestrained to the minister of this Church, taking it only for the crown of his …
With rule
… that is, the crowne of thy glory, euen euerlasting life. This must not be restraynedrestrained to the minister of this Church, taking it only for the crown of his …
William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · p. 192 · Open in the reader
Printed
… any sinne, there is not such an inclination, but it is or may bee restraynedrestrained by the minde; but if the mind giue consent, then like woade it adds …
With rule
… any sinne, there is not such an inclination, but it is or may bee restraynedrestrained by the minde; but if the mind giue consent, then like woade it adds …
John Preston · Remains · p. 223 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thereof, and ſo to true repentance and ſaluation: and the reſt may either bee reſtraynedrestrained from the exceſſe of euill which before they ran after, or if they will …
With rule
… thereof, and ſo to true repentance and ſaluation: and the reſt may either bee reſtraynedrestrained from the exceſſe of euill which before they ran after, or if they will …
Richard Rogers · Samuels Encounter with Saul · p. 109 · Open in the reader
Printed
… goodnesse withall: That so through the often remembrance of the one, wee myght bee restraynedrestrained in a couenable feare, and through the dayly recordyng of the other, wee myght …
With rule
… goodnesse withall: That so through the often remembrance of the one, wee myght bee restraynedrestrained in a couenable feare, and through the dayly recordyng of the other, wee myght …
John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · 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.

A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture A00593

Printed
3 ReſtraynedRestrained to the Apoſtles themſelves, and ſome few others of their immediate ſucceſſors.
With rule
3 ReſtraynedRestrained to the Apoſtles themſelves, and ſome few others of their immediate ſucceſſors.
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 127 · Open in the reader