Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4650 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

retaynedretained

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

Puritas changed it: 333 times in 142 works
Consistency: 99.7% (333 of 334)
Reach if approved: ~351 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: retained
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 334 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (333 changes in 142 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 333)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Church, Yea or no. I aunſwer / 1. Not onely falſe conſtitution / but falſe doctrine alſo retaynedretained, make a falſe Church. If it were ſo then / that they could have a …
With rule
… Church, Yea or no. I aunſwer / 1. Not onely falſe conſtitution / but falſe doctrine alſo retaynedretained, make a falſe Church. If it were ſo then / that they could have a …
Francis Johnson · Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · Open in the reader
Printed
… where faith being put vp to ſilence, onely traditions of men taught to bee retaynedretained, as hath béene hitherto through y^e peſtiferous, deteſtable, & ſoule-ſlaying traditions of our Prelates …
With rule
… where faith being put vp to ſilence, onely traditions of men taught to bee retaynedretained, as hath béene hitherto through y^e peſtiferous, deteſtable, & ſoule-ſlaying traditions of our Prelates …
Martin Luther · The Liberty of a Christian · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſecluded, vertue defaced, fidelitie ſuppreſſed, and trueth impriſoned. And on the other ſyde, Falſhod retaynedretained, lyes imbraſed, impiete cheriſhed, vyce auaunced, Infidelitie extolled, and vntrueth ſet at lybertie, wherein …
With rule
… ſecluded, vertue defaced, fidelitie ſuppreſſed, and trueth impriſoned. And on the other ſyde, Falſhod retaynedretained, lyes imbraſed, impiete cheriſhed, vyce auaunced, Infidelitie extolled, and vntrueth ſet at lybertie, wherein …
Wolfgang Musculus · The Observer of Time · Open in the reader
Printed
… they to fishing againe: more they gat and fell to eating a fresh, and retaynedretained sufficient readie rost for all our break-fasts. About two a Clocke in the …
With rule
… they to fishing againe: more they gat and fell to eating a fresh, and retaynedretained sufficient readie rost for all our break-fasts. About two a Clocke in the …
William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for the hurts receiued, & to search out means that the remayning Arrowes may bee retaynedretained. Towards this, euen the Arrows themselues will excellently direct vs. For they are like …
With rule
… for the hurts receiued, & to search out means that the remayning Arrowes may bee retaynedretained. Towards this, euen the Arrows themselues will excellently direct vs. For they are like …
Francis Rous · Oil of Scorpions · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the domeſticall multitude of his Court, was euen a Church of God: yea, hee retaynedretained aboute him ſundrie miniſters of God, that ordinarilie praied for him. Lykewiſe the Emperour …
With rule
… the domeſticall multitude of his Court, was euen a Church of God: yea, hee retaynedretained aboute him ſundrie miniſters of God, that ordinarilie praied for him. Lykewiſe the Emperour …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 335 · Open in the reader
Printed
Though secretlie, and, but of some, retaynedretained.
With rule
Though secretlie, and, but of some, retaynedretained.
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
… moſte pretious iewels, and ineſtimable riches: not to be hid in a corner, or retaynedretained with them ſelues: but rather (as the Apoſtle exhorteth) to ſtyrre vp the gyfte …
With rule
… moſte pretious iewels, and ineſtimable riches: not to be hid in a corner, or retaynedretained with them ſelues: but rather (as the Apoſtle exhorteth) to ſtyrre vp the gyfte …
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 67 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

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