Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4520 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

retayningretaining

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

Puritas changed it: 180 times in 99 works
Consistency: 98.3% (180 of 183)
Reach if approved: ~192 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: retaining
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 183 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (180 changes in 99 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 180)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… tithes to the Patron that sels them, not to God, who gaue them, still retayningretaining the proprietie of them in himselfe. Whence wee may conclude, all those to bee …
With rule
… tithes to the Patron that sels them, not to God, who gaue them, still retayningretaining the proprietie of them in himselfe. Whence wee may conclude, all those to bee …
Henry Burton · A Censure of Simony · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and his loving, by Gods making him to love them, and his apprehending and retayningretaining them, by Gods making of him to apprehende and reteyne them, GOD imprinting, writing …
With rule
… and his loving, by Gods making him to love them, and his apprehending and retayningretaining them, by Gods making of him to apprehende and reteyne them, GOD imprinting, writing …
John Forbes · The Doctrine of Justification · p. 145 · Open in the reader
Printed
… GOD / and by Gods ordinance put into our owne lāguage / to all our knowledges retayningretaining the words of GOD / which word and the lyuely vse of Gods owne graces …
With rule
… GOD / and by Gods ordinance put into our owne lāguage / to all our knowledges retayningretaining the words of GOD / which word and the lyuely vse of Gods owne graces …
John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… voyce if he despise, he is cast out from among them: least by (q) retayningretaining of such a litle leaven should leaven the whole lumpeeven them that are within …
With rule
… voyce if he despise, he is cast out from among them: least by (q) retayningretaining of such a litle leaven should leaven the whole lumpeeven them that are within …
Francis Johnson · The Ministry of the Church of England · p. 74 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I forgiue alſo. Whence it is moſt plaine, that the power of forgiuing, and retayningretaining ſinnes, and conſequently of the keyes of heauen, conſiſteth in admitting, or duely, and …
With rule
… I forgiue alſo. Whence it is moſt plaine, that the power of forgiuing, and retayningretaining ſinnes, and conſequently of the keyes of heauen, conſiſteth in admitting, or duely, and …
John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 150 · Open in the reader
Printed
… then procure and purchase vnto vs by his bodye / vppon the crosse. But bread retayningretaining still his owne very naturall substance / maye be thus by grace / and in a …
With rule
… then procure and purchase vnto vs by his bodye / vppon the crosse. But bread retayningretaining still his owne very naturall substance / maye be thus by grace / and in a …
Nicholas Ridley · Conferences Between Two Fathers and Martyrs · Open in the reader
Printed
… or a secure heart which lets all doctrine runne out. Heb. 2. 1. not cherishing or retayningretaining it to an holy conception and birth.
With rule
… or a secure heart which lets all doctrine runne out. Heb. 2. 1. not cherishing or retayningretaining it to an holy conception and birth.
Thomas Taylor · Christs Victory Over the Dragon · p. 121 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Iun. in commentar. so also Bulling. Iunius in his annotat. followeth an other reading, retayningretaining the same sense, dominatum vnum erexit, he erected one dominion: that is, subdued all …
With rule
… Iun. in commentar. so also Bulling. Iunius in his annotat. followeth an other reading, retayningretaining the same sense, dominatum vnum erexit, he erected one dominion: that is, subdued all …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 206 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Defense of the Lawful Calling of Ministers of Reformed Churches A01041

Printed
… wilfullie wincking even over against his [REMARK] was put the restriction of a Wolfe, RetayningRetaining ordinarie place and power of Ordination. If there he had thought, that these two …
With rule
… wilfullie wincking even over against his [REMARK] was put the restriction of a Wolfe, RetayningRetaining ordinarie place and power of Ordination. If there he had thought, that these two …
Patrick Forbes · Defense of the Lawful Calling of Ministers of Reformed Churches · p. 19 · Open in the reader