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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4206 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

maintaynedmaintained

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

Puritas changed it
258 times in 135 works
Consistency
100% (258 of 258)
Reach if approved
~271 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: maintained
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
258 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (258 changes in 135 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 258)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … or Light, or any other adornimente, wherby Gods seruice is the better serued, susteined, & maintaynedmaintained in reading & singing: And for all them, that therto haue councelled, that God rewarde …
    With rule
    … or Light, or any other adornimente, wherby Gods seruice is the better serued, susteined, & maintaynedmaintained in reading & singing: And for all them, that therto haue councelled, that God rewarde …

    Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … though they remaine as tollerated, yet are they not in their way by them maintaynedmaintained.
    With rule
    … though they remaine as tollerated, yet are they not in their way by them maintaynedmaintained.

    Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · p. 63 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … they be kept in the Church as things indifferent, at length they will be maintaynedmaintained as things necessary, as now we find true by late wofull experience. And in …
    With rule
    … they be kept in the Church as things indifferent, at length they will be maintaynedmaintained as things necessary, as now we find true by late wofull experience. And in …

    William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 46 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … There is no question of the liberty of that by which the Church is maintaynedmaintained, by which the Church is brought into the world, for heaven. There is no …
    With rule
    … There is no question of the liberty of that by which the Church is maintaynedmaintained, by which the Church is brought into the world, for heaven. There is no …

    Richard Sibbes · The Spiritual Mans Aim · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of it ſelfe is not ſufficient, nor perfect righteouſnes: which opinion can never be maintaynedmaintained with Gods honour.
    With rule
    … of it ſelfe is not ſufficient, nor perfect righteouſnes: which opinion can never be maintaynedmaintained with Gods honour.

    John Forbes · The Doctrine of Justification · p. 163 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … entrals of the Poore, in the ruines of the Church, by you bettered, repayred, maintaynedmaintained, (Non norunt haec monumenta mor…,) and you shall one day heare the Iudge himselfe …
    With rule
    … entrals of the Poore, in the ruines of the Church, by you bettered, repayred, maintaynedmaintained, (Non norunt haec monumenta mor…,) and you shall one day heare the Iudge himselfe …

    Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … by the Pope and his prelates, but procedinge from Almightye God. These preachers were maintaynedmaintained by Conradus, and therfore he incurred almost danger of his life.
    With rule
    … by the Pope and his prelates, but procedinge from Almightye God. These preachers were maintaynedmaintained by Conradus, and therfore he incurred almost danger of his life.

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 115 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … distroie the realm. For by yomans sōnes, the faith of Christe is, & hath bene maintaynedmaintained chiefely. Is this realme taught by rich mens sōnes. No no, reade the Cronicles …
    With rule
    … distroie the realm. For by yomans sōnes, the faith of Christe is, & hath bene maintaynedmaintained chiefely. Is this realme taught by rich mens sōnes. No no, reade the Cronicles …

    Hugh Latimer · First Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.