Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4611 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

continenciecontinency

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

Puritas changed it: 407 times in 152 works
Consistency: 90.0% (407 of 452)
Reach if approved: ~475 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: continency
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 452 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (407 changes in 152 works, 90.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 407)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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… haue the gift of continenciecontinency. But whoſoeuer are not endewed with this gift of continenciecontinency, vnto all them marriage is not a thing indifferent, but commanded vnto them as …
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… haue the gift of continenciecontinency. But whoſoeuer are not endewed with this gift of continenciecontinency, vnto all them marriage is not a thing indifferent, but commanded vnto them as …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · Open in the reader
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… help them in this life, and alſo, if they haue not the gift of continenciecontinency, to counſel them, to governe them vnto a fit and religious wife, ſuch as …
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… help them in this life, and alſo, if they haue not the gift of continenciecontinency, to counſel them, to governe them vnto a fit and religious wife, ſuch as …
Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 48 · Open in the reader
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… and death? How they hated murther, it is manifest in that historie. Both Iosephs continenciecontinency, and the punishment threatned to Abimelech declare, how hainous a thing adultery was vnto …
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… and death? How they hated murther, it is manifest in that historie. Both Iosephs continenciecontinency, and the punishment threatned to Abimelech declare, how hainous a thing adultery was vnto …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 131 · Open in the reader
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… permitteth Marriage to all degrees, none excepted, if thei haue not the gift of continenciecontinency: neither doeth he appoincte any tyme, when it shall not be lawfull to solemnise …
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… permitteth Marriage to all degrees, none excepted, if thei haue not the gift of continenciecontinency: neither doeth he appoincte any tyme, when it shall not be lawfull to solemnise …
Thomas Becon · The Acts of Christ and Antichrist · Open in the reader
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… that is present, vpon certaine knowledge of his, or her want in respect of continenciecontinency, shall sue to the Magistrate; after publike and solemne notice giuen, the contract may …
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… that is present, vpon certaine knowledge of his, or her want in respect of continenciecontinency, shall sue to the Magistrate; after publike and solemne notice giuen, the contract may …
William Perkins · Christian Economy · p. 82 · Open in the reader
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… and thirteene, the number (as you haue heard) of Gods Commādements. They ascribe the continenciecontinency of Ioseph in Potiphars house; and of Boaz, when Ruth slept by him, to …
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… and thirteene, the number (as you haue heard) of Gods Commādements. They ascribe the continenciecontinency of Ioseph in Potiphars house; and of Boaz, when Ruth slept by him, to …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 162 · Open in the reader
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… ſobrietie: when hee had ſaid, Caſt off wantonneſſe, he ſhould haue ſaid, Put on continenciecontinency: when he ſaid, Caſt off enuie, he ſhould haue ſaid, Put on loue: But …
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… ſobrietie: when hee had ſaid, Caſt off wantonneſſe, he ſhould haue ſaid, Put on continenciecontinency: when he ſaid, Caſt off enuie, he ſhould haue ſaid, Put on loue: But …
Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 323 · Open in the reader
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… eſtate is moſt woefull and accurſed. As he therefore, who wanting the gift of continenciecontinency, and liuing in fornication, ought to abhorre it, and to prouide himſelfe of a …
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… eſtate is moſt woefull and accurſed. As he therefore, who wanting the gift of continenciecontinency, and liuing in fornication, ought to abhorre it, and to prouide himſelfe of a …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 92 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (45)

31 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 22 are listed here. 14 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Abrahams Faith A08201

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… point beleeue the papiſt Krantius, where hee ſaith: That in the cittie of Rome ContinencieContinency is more rare then a white Swanne among ſeculer men. And this ſoare is …
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… point beleeue the papiſt Krantius, where hee ſaith: That in the cittie of Rome ContinencieContinency is more rare then a white Swanne among ſeculer men. And this ſoare is …
Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 293 · Open in the reader

Reims Against Rome A09287

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… thy hand or foot, cut them off: ſo he that hath the gift of ContinencieContinency, and knowes that Marriage would hinder him, muſt make himſelfe an Eunuch, that is …
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… thy hand or foot, cut them off: ſo he that hath the gift of ContinencieContinency, and knowes that Marriage would hinder him, muſt make himſelfe an Eunuch, that is …
Richard Bernard · Reims Against Rome · p. 282 · Open in the reader

The History of the Church Since the Days of Christ A13294

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… marriage to stay the intemperat lust of men, who had not the gift of ContinencieContinency.
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… marriage to stay the intemperat lust of men, who had not the gift of ContinencieContinency.
Patrick Simson · The History of the Church Since the Days of Christ · p. 675 · Open in the reader

Defense of Perkins Book Called a Reformed Catholic A15735

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… is as holy, to fulfill the fleshly desires of it by Mariage, as by ContinencieContinency, to mortifie them; yea that it is flat against the word of God to …
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… is as holy, to fulfill the fleshly desires of it by Mariage, as by ContinencieContinency, to mortifie them; yea that it is flat against the word of God to …
Anthony Wotton · Defense of Perkins Book Called a Reformed Catholic · p. 3 · Open in the reader

Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion A17183

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… the ten Commaundements. Thou ſhalt not commit adulterie. Of wedlock. Againſt al intemperancie. Of ContinencieContinency. 222
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… the ten Commaundements. Thou ſhalt not commit adulterie. Of wedlock. Againſt al intemperancie. Of ContinencieContinency. 222
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader
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ContinencieContinency. 237. 238. 239. 240
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ContinencieContinency. 237. 238. 239. 240
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader
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ContinencieContinency in meate and drincke is not the loathinge of wyne and victualls, but the …
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ContinencieContinency in meate and drincke is not the loathinge of wyne and victualls, but the …
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 239 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Isaiah A17640

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ContinencieContinency a rare gift 19. 21
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ContinencieContinency a rare gift 19. 21
John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · Open in the reader

Abridgment of Institutes of the Christian Religion A17676

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ContinencieContinency.
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ContinencieContinency.
John Calvin · Abridgment of Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

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ContinencieContinency.
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ContinencieContinency.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
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A lesson for such as haue not the gift of ContinencieContinency giuen them.
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A lesson for such as haue not the gift of ContinencieContinency giuen them.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
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Of the gift of ContinencieContinency, and howe a man must vse it.
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Of the gift of ContinencieContinency, and howe a man must vse it.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader

The Plain Mans Spiritual Plow A18014

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… thoſe hainous and wicked actions which appertaineth to the corruption of the body, let ContinencieContinency and perfest innocencie be embraced: as where, by the contrary, vices may b…e …
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… thoſe hainous and wicked actions which appertaineth to the corruption of the body, let ContinencieContinency and perfest innocencie be embraced: as where, by the contrary, vices may b…e …
John Carpenter · The Plain Mans Spiritual Plow · p. 114 · Open in the reader

Gods Holy Mind Touching Matters Moral A21266

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… no man or woman may vow perp…tuall chastitie in a single estate, because ContinencieContinency is the gift of God, who giu…s it not to all but to …
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… no man or woman may vow perp…tuall chastitie in a single estate, because ContinencieContinency is the gift of God, who giu…s it not to all but to …
Edward Elton · Gods Holy Mind Touching Matters Moral · p. 271 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

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§. 4. ContinencieContinency
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§. 4. ContinencieContinency
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 225 · Open in the reader
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… omit any eſſentiall: this length of mine is no leſſe forced then mine Aduerſaries ContinencieContinency: wherein yet my Reader ſhall not ſigh vnder an irkeſome loquacitie: I preſume to …
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… omit any eſſentiall: this length of mine is no leſſe forced then mine Aduerſaries ContinencieContinency: wherein yet my Reader ſhall not ſigh vnder an irkeſome loquacitie: I preſume to …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 714 · Open in the reader
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… to doe what wee can, and to aske that which wee cannot doe. In ContinencieContinency then our indeuour is required for the attaining of that which God will giue …
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… to doe what wee can, and to aske that which wee cannot doe. In ContinencieContinency then our indeuour is required for the attaining of that which God will giue …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 733 · Open in the reader
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… then recall his laſciuious Booke, would bee ſo eager aboue the reſt for the ContinencieContinency of his Clergie. As if euer any men had been more luxurious then the …
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… then recall his laſciuious Booke, would bee ſo eager aboue the reſt for the ContinencieContinency of his Clergie. As if euer any men had been more luxurious then the …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 757 · Open in the reader
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… the bickerings of our Engliſh Clergy with their Dunſtans, it will not follow, that ContinencieContinency was not ancient, but was repiningly, lately, vniuſtly impoſed. By this reaſon, hee will …
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… the bickerings of our Engliſh Clergy with their Dunſtans, it will not follow, that ContinencieContinency was not ancient, but was repiningly, lately, vniuſtly impoſed. By this reaſon, hee will …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 789 · Open in the reader

Epistles Volume 1 B13860

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… allowed wedlocke, to the Ministers of his Sanctuarie. Let Cardinall Panormitan be heard speake. ContinencieContinency, sayth hee, in Clergie men is neither of the substance of their Order, or …
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… allowed wedlocke, to the Ministers of his Sanctuarie. Let Cardinall Panormitan be heard speake. ContinencieContinency, sayth hee, in Clergie men is neither of the substance of their Order, or …
Joseph Hall · Epistles Volume 1 · p. 119 · Open in the reader
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… For that, as experience teacheth vs, a contrarie effect followes vpon that law of ContinencieContinency; since at this day they liue not spiritually, neither are cleane, but are defiled …
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… For that, as experience teacheth vs, a contrarie effect followes vpon that law of ContinencieContinency; since at this day they liue not spiritually, neither are cleane, but are defiled …
Joseph Hall · Epistles Volume 1 · p. 119 · Open in the reader
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… when the Fathers of the Nicene Councell went about to enact a law of ContinencieContinency, Socrates the Historian expresses it thus: It seemed good (sayth hee) to the Bishops …
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… when the Fathers of the Nicene Councell went about to enact a law of ContinencieContinency, Socrates the Historian expresses it thus: It seemed good (sayth hee) to the Bishops …
Joseph Hall · Epistles Volume 1 · p. 125 · Open in the reader