Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4686 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

contayningcontaining

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

Puritas changed it: 159 times in 108 works
Consistency: 86.8% (159 of 183)
Reach if approved: ~192 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: containing
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 (159 changes in 108 works, 86.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 159)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
¶The first Table of the Law, contayningcontaining foure Cōmaundementes, wherin is declared our dutie to God.
With rule
¶The first Table of the Law, contayningcontaining foure Cōmaundementes, wherin is declared our dutie to God.
Thomas Becon · The Principles of Christian Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
¶ Short queſtions and anſweares, contayningcontaining the Summe of Chriſtian Religion.
With rule
¶ Short queſtions and anſweares, contayningcontaining the Summe of Chriſtian Religion.
Robert Openshaw · Short Questions And Answers Containing The Sum Of Christian Religion 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Temples were called Tencalls, which signifieth Gods house. This Temple, he saith, was square, contayningcontaining euery way as much as a Crosse-bow can shoot leuell: in the midst …
With rule
… Temples were called Tencalls, which signifieth Gods house. This Temple, he saith, was square, contayningcontaining euery way as much as a Crosse-bow can shoot leuell: in the midst …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 670 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which is usuall among us, confessed it to be his body: & the cup likewise contayningcontaining that creature which is usuall among us, his blood. And in his fift book …
With rule
… which is usuall among us, confessed it to be his body: & the cup likewise contayningcontaining that creature which is usuall among us, his blood. And in his fift book …
James Ussher · Answer to a Jesuit in Ireland · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
… duly executed? Euen so the holy Scriptures (S. Paul affirmeth) are very profitable; as contayningcontaining very good and necessarie matter, both to teach, reproue, and correct: but he saith …
With rule
… duly executed? Euen so the holy Scriptures (S. Paul affirmeth) are very profitable; as contayningcontaining very good and necessarie matter, both to teach, reproue, and correct: but he saith …
Anthony Wotton · Defense of Perkins Book Called a Reformed Catholic · p. 415 · Open in the reader
Printed
EVBVLVS, OR, A DIALOGVE, Where-in a rugged Romish Ryme (inscribed, A proper Ballad, contayningcontaining Catholicke Questions to the Protestant) is confuted, and the Questions there-of answered.
With rule
EVBVLVS, OR, A DIALOGVE, Where-in a rugged Romish Ryme (inscribed, A proper Ballad, contayningcontaining Catholicke Questions to the Protestant) is confuted, and the Questions there-of answered.
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
And here endeth the sixt booke of these prelates, contayningcontaining in it 41. Popes from Innocentius the 4. to this Pius the 3. whose corrupt liues as …
With rule
And here endeth the sixt booke of these prelates, contayningcontaining in it 41. Popes from Innocentius the 4. to this Pius the 3. whose corrupt liues as …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
Printed
… hands of the Presbytery; which is to be underſtood of the Colledge of Presbyters, contayningcontaining theſe amongſt others. For theſe had a ſpeciall hand in electing and ordaining all …
With rule
… hands of the Presbytery; which is to be underſtood of the Colledge of Presbyters, contayningcontaining theſe amongſt others. For theſe had a ſpeciall hand in electing and ordaining all …
Randal Bate · Certain Observations · p. 93 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (24)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 19 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ A04214

Printed
… caſt into Hell, ſoūdeth ſenſ…les in my …at…s. Although you meane the ContayningContaining to b… put for the Contayned, H…ll for the Divels of Hel: and …
With rule
… caſt into Hell, ſoūdeth ſenſ…les in my …at…s. Although you meane the ContayningContaining to b… put for the Contayned, H…ll for the Divels of Hel: and …
Henry Jacob · Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ · p. 189 · Open in the reader

A Retractive from the Romish Religion A06106

Printed
ContayningContaining THIRTEENE FORCIBLE MOTIVES, diſſwading from communion with the CHVRCH of ROME:
With rule
ContayningContaining THIRTEENE FORCIBLE MOTIVES, diſſwading from communion with the CHVRCH of ROME:
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · Open in the reader

Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny A07225

Printed
THE NINTH BOOKE, CONtayningContaining the Acts and things done in the Raigne of King EDVVARD the sixt.
With rule
THE NINTH BOOKE, CONtayningContaining the Acts and things done in the Raigne of King EDVVARD the sixt.
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 220 · Open in the reader

A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath A20733

Printed
Chap. 4. ContayningContaining the first reason why Lay-elders are not proued out of the 1 Tim. 5.17.
With rule
Chap. 4. ContayningContaining the first reason why Lay-elders are not proued out of the 1 Tim. 5.17.
George Downame · A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath · Open in the reader
Printed
Chap. 10. ContayningContaining an answere to the same testimonies and some others as they are alleaged by …
With rule
Chap. 10. ContayningContaining an answere to the same testimonies and some others as they are alleaged by …
George Downame · A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath · Open in the reader