Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4495 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

complaynethcomplaineth

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

Puritas changed it: 287 times in 143 works
Consistency: 100% (287 of 287)
Reach if approved: ~302 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: complaineth
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 287 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (287 changes in 143 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 287)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… it is written, who can tel howe ofte he offendeth? And Paule Rom. vij. complaynethcomplaineth hymſelfe, that he with the fleſſhe ſerueth the lawe of ſynne. For it lyeth …
With rule
… it is written, who can tel howe ofte he offendeth? And Paule Rom. vij. complaynethcomplaineth hymſelfe, that he with the fleſſhe ſerueth the lawe of ſynne. For it lyeth …
Martin Luther · The Chief and Principal Articles of the Christian Faith · Open in the reader
Printed
… also drawe good out thereof. And lyke as a discreete father, when his Chyld complaynethcomplaineth to him of some wrong doone vnto him by one of his Seruants, doth …
With rule
… also drawe good out thereof. And lyke as a discreete father, when his Chyld complaynethcomplaineth to him of some wrong doone vnto him by one of his Seruants, doth …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 204 · Open in the reader
Printed
… deſtitute for a ſhorte ſpace onely, of the preſence of his GOD, notwithſtanding, hee complaynethcomplaineth ſo, as if hee were deprived for a long time and ſpace of that …
With rule
… deſtitute for a ſhorte ſpace onely, of the preſence of his GOD, notwithſtanding, hee complaynethcomplaineth ſo, as if hee were deprived for a long time and ſpace of that …
Robert Rollock · Exposition Upon Select Psalms · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
2 The thing whereof he complaynethcomplaineth, which is that God hath forſaken him. Which the prophet auoucheth by 2. reaſons.
With rule
2 The thing whereof he complaynethcomplaineth, which is that God hath forſaken him. Which the prophet auoucheth by 2. reaſons.
John Smyth · The Bright Morning Star · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fall out not onely besides, but contrary to Gods expectation as Esa. 5. where God complaynethcomplaineth of the house of Israel, that while he looked for grapes they brought forth …
With rule
… fall out not onely besides, but contrary to Gods expectation as Esa. 5. where God complaynethcomplaineth of the house of Israel, that while he looked for grapes they brought forth …
William Twisse · Discovery of Jacksons Vanity · p. 258 · Open in the reader
Printed
… were counsellers in office, in his time, of whose dignity hee writeth much, he complaynethcomplaineth that they were promoted vnto that dignitie in parliamentes, by meanes of money, or …
With rule
… were counsellers in office, in his time, of whose dignity hee writeth much, he complaynethcomplaineth that they were promoted vnto that dignitie in parliamentes, by meanes of money, or …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and labours, neither then ſhall euer any doe it now, or hereafter. Euery man complaynethcomplaineth of the preſent ſtate of the world, and ſaith, it was neuer ſo bad …
With rule
… and labours, neither then ſhall euer any doe it now, or hereafter. Euery man complaynethcomplaineth of the preſent ſtate of the world, and ſaith, it was neuer ſo bad …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… trueth, brought to the true beyng, that is vnto Chriſt. You heare that hee complaynethcomplaineth greately of the Scripture learned, that they haue altogether and generally leaſte the Leuiticall …
With rule
… trueth, brought to the true beyng, that is vnto Chriſt. You heare that hee complaynethcomplaineth greately of the Scripture learned, that they haue altogether and generally leaſte the Leuiticall …
John Knewstubs · Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies · 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.