Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4187 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

certayncertain

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

Puritas changed it: 469 times in 108 works
Consistency: 97.3% (469 of 482)
Reach if approved: ~506 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: certain
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 482 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (469 changes in 108 works, 97.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 469)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… in the inſtitution of the Lorde (ſo as it is preſcribed of him in certayncertain words) to chaunge any thing at all. And nowe in very deede concerning that …
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… in the inſtitution of the Lorde (ſo as it is preſcribed of him in certayncertain words) to chaunge any thing at all. And nowe in very deede concerning that …
Theodore Beza · Christian Questions and Answers Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… many other churches, false doctrine fretted as a canker, and destroyed the faith of certayncertain, whiles some taught the resurrection was past already; some with Iezabel & Balaā perswaded to …
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… many other churches, false doctrine fretted as a canker, and destroyed the faith of certayncertain, whiles some taught the resurrection was past already; some with Iezabel & Balaā perswaded to …
Henry Ainsworth · The Communion of Saints · p. 416 · Open in the reader
Printed
… holy wordes & promyſes / that you may defēde you againſt all temptations. for I am certayncertain that if you be of Chriſt / louyng him aboue all thinges that the deuyll …
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… holy wordes & promyſes / that you may defēde you againſt all temptations. for I am certayncertain that if you be of Chriſt / louyng him aboue all thinges that the deuyll …
William Tyndale · A Pathway Into the Holy Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… for vs. There is no nother pledge of the goodnes & mercy of god so certayncertain and vndoubted / nothynge so farme and faste as is god. Neyther is there any …
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… for vs. There is no nother pledge of the goodnes & mercy of god so certayncertain and vndoubted / nothynge so farme and faste as is god. Neyther is there any …
Ulrich Zwingli · The Reckoning and Declaration of Faith and Belief · Open in the reader
Printed
… did write of this matter of Election & Reprobation, which is called Predeſtination, in a certayncertain Commentarie vpon the Prophet Malachie, by the occaſion of this texte:
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… did write of this matter of Election & Reprobation, which is called Predeſtination, in a certayncertain Commentarie vpon the Prophet Malachie, by the occaſion of this texte:
Anthony Gilby · Of Election and Reprobation · Open in the reader
Printed
I muſt recyte a Story. There was ſent hither to Vvittenberch, a certayncertain doctour out of Fraunce, which ſayde opēly before vs: That hys kyng was ſurely …
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I muſt recyte a Story. There was ſent hither to Vvittenberch, a certayncertain doctour out of Fraunce, which ſayde opēly before vs: That hys kyng was ſurely …
Martin Luther · The Chief and Principal Articles of the Christian Faith · Open in the reader
Printed
… to bee vsed of the faythfull. Immedyatly after the setting forth of these prayers, certayncertain of my frends came vnto me, and earnestly requyred of me to peruse and …
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… to bee vsed of the faythfull. Immedyatly after the setting forth of these prayers, certayncertain of my frends came vnto me, and earnestly requyred of me to peruse and …
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader
Printed
… had not as yet crept intoo the Churche. There was at the beginning a certayncertain maner of calling vpon Sayntes: But afterwardes how muche wickedneſſe followed? Therefore the declamation …
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… had not as yet crept intoo the Churche. There was at the beginning a certayncertain maner of calling vpon Sayntes: But afterwardes how muche wickedneſſe followed? Therefore the declamation …
Philipp Melanchthon · In Defense of the True Church of God · p. 53 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

13 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.

Twenty-Seven Sermons A05143

Printed
CERTAYNCERTAIN GODLY Sermons, made vppon the lords Prayer, preached by the right reuerende Father, and …
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CERTAYNCERTAIN GODLY Sermons, made vppon the lords Prayer, preached by the right reuerende Father, and …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
CertaynCertain other Sermons preached by the right reuerende father in God, master … Latymer in Lincolneshyre …
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CertaynCertain other Sermons preached by the right reuerende father in God, master … Latymer in Lincolneshyre …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader

The Governance of Virtue A06832

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… Ladishippe I thought it not good to let go the occasion offred vnto me. CertaynCertain wekes past considering the miserable face of this to much wretched and lamentable worlde …
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… Ladishippe I thought it not good to let go the occasion offred vnto me. CertaynCertain wekes past considering the miserable face of this to much wretched and lamentable worlde …
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader

Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels A06932

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CertaynCertain of the fathers, and amongest them, (as it now cometh to mynde) Bernarde, thought …
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CertaynCertain of the fathers, and amongest them, (as it now cometh to mynde) Bernarde, thought …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader

The Conjectures of the End of the World A08559

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… standeth not vpō ccc. liiij. dayes, but of so many of oure comon yeres. CertaynCertain it is out of Ptolome fro the beginnyng of the reygne of Nebucha…nezar …
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… standeth not vpō ccc. liiij. dayes, but of so many of oure comon yeres. CertaynCertain it is out of Ptolome fro the beginnyng of the reygne of Nebucha…nezar …
Andreas Osiander · The Conjectures of the End of the World · Open in the reader

Justification of Separation from the Church of England A10835

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CERTAYNCERTAIN OBSERVATIONS vpon the Epistle dedicatory: & Preface to the Reader.
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CERTAYNCERTAIN OBSERVATIONS vpon the Epistle dedicatory: & Preface to the Reader.
John Robinson · Justification of Separation from the Church of England · p. 7 · Open in the reader

Of Religious Communion Private and Public A10843

Printed
… bynde them …o these very words: as the ministers are bound to say theyr CertaynCertain. For …eyther do the two Evangelists vse the very same words: neyther, if that …
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… bynde them …o these very words: as the ministers are bound to say theyr CertaynCertain. For …eyther do the two Evangelists vse the very same words: neyther, if that …
John Robinson · Of Religious Communion Private and Public · p. 21 · Open in the reader

The Rescuing of the Romish Fox A14048

Printed
… as there is ſo mich vniuſtly ſhed blode in the furi of the wordes? CertaynCertain popes alſo did not alow thys kynde of theft as gelaſius whiche ſayeth / We …
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… as there is ſo mich vniuſtly ſhed blode in the furi of the wordes? CertaynCertain popes alſo did not alow thys kynde of theft as gelaſius whiche ſayeth / We …
William Turner · The Rescuing of the Romish Fox · Open in the reader

A Revelation of the Apocalypse A16853

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… ſome ſmal peeces of truth, shining clearly in the fabulous heap of confuſe earth. CertaynCertain it is that the Empire shal return thither again; but which Antichriſt shal not …
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… ſome ſmal peeces of truth, shining clearly in the fabulous heap of confuſe earth. CertaynCertain it is that the Empire shal return thither again; but which Antichriſt shal not …
Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 571 · Open in the reader

The Plea for Infants and Elder People Concerning their Baptism A19033

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… her defection be accounted a true church: then muſt Rome alſo in her Apoſtaſie. CertaynCertain it is, that both are to be eſteemed Apoſtatical Churches, and this is that …
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… her defection be accounted a true church: then muſt Rome alſo in her Apoſtaſie. CertaynCertain it is, that both are to be eſteemed Apoſtatical Churches, and this is that …
Richard Clifton · The Plea for Infants and Elder People Concerning their Baptism · p. 205 · Open in the reader

Defense of the True Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper A19571

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CERTAYNCERTAIN FAVTES.
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CERTAYNCERTAIN FAVTES.
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Defense of the True Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader

Counterpoison Considerations A26579

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… Cant. that deriued not their mission authority and consecration from the Bishop of Rome. CertaynCertain it is, th…t …yther none at all can be named, or els none …
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… Cant. that deriued not their mission authority and consecration from the Bishop of Rome. CertaynCertain it is, th…t …yther none at all can be named, or els none …
Henry Ainsworth · Counterpoison Considerations · p. 110 · Open in the reader

Commentaries A68840

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… mother in Iſrael, bicauſe ſhe was ſtirred vp not to raigne as a tirant. CertaynCertain do ſomtimes fight for theyr country, and do ſeme as though they would ſet …
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… mother in Iſrael, bicauſe ſhe was ſtirred vp not to raigne as a tirant. CertaynCertain do ſomtimes fight for theyr country, and do ſeme as though they would ſet …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · Open in the reader