Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4726 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

obtayningobtaining

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

Puritas changed it: 197 times in 123 works
Consistency: 98.9% (197 of 199)
Reach if approved: ~209 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: obtaining
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 199 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (197 changes in 123 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 197)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… in the combat and battail that they had together of mariage. …f whom Minerua obtayningobtaining hir Uirginitye, was called Neruie, in the honour of whom the maydens & ſuoemen did …
With rule
… in the combat and battail that they had together of mariage. …f whom Minerua obtayningobtaining hir Uirginitye, was called Neruie, in the honour of whom the maydens & ſuoemen did …
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 136 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bestowing of all spirituall grace; sanctifie them with thy truth v. 17. 3. the impetration or obtayningobtaining of our seuerall praiers and requestes: in the first Christ stretcheth forth his hand …
With rule
… bestowing of all spirituall grace; sanctifie them with thy truth v. 17. 3. the impetration or obtayningobtaining of our seuerall praiers and requestes: in the first Christ stretcheth forth his hand …
Andrew Willet · The Treasure of the Church · Open in the reader
Printed
… deſired principally, and before any other, and all good meanes to be vſed for obtayningobtaining it, yet vntill a tyme of reformation, I hould this day ought as ſtrictly …
With rule
… deſired principally, and before any other, and all good meanes to be vſed for obtayningobtaining it, yet vntill a tyme of reformation, I hould this day ought as ſtrictly …
Theophilus Brabourne · A Discourse Upon the Sabbath Day · p. 237 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Apostle, is chiefelie, in regard of more dangerous Doctours, and so farre, by Hypocrisie, obtayningobtaining place, and authoritie in the Church, as to come prowdlie to foreign, foreign, (interdicting, and commanding …
With rule
… Apostle, is chiefelie, in regard of more dangerous Doctours, and so farre, by Hypocrisie, obtayningobtaining place, and authoritie in the Church, as to come prowdlie to foreign, foreign, (interdicting, and commanding …
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhall bee had, by the onely beholding of God. Onely therefore the meanes of obtayningobtaining this knowledge ſhal be diuers and the reuealing more full: Becauſe God ſhalbe all …
With rule
… ſhall bee had, by the onely beholding of God. Onely therefore the meanes of obtayningobtaining this knowledge ſhal be diuers and the reuealing more full: Becauſe God ſhalbe all …
John Knewstubs · Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies · p. 91 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of hell and purgatorye, whiche thou haste deserued for thy synnes: and vnto y^e obtayningobtaining of grace in this present world, and euerlasting life in the world to come …
With rule
… of hell and purgatorye, whiche thou haste deserued for thy synnes: and vnto y^e obtayningobtaining of grace in this present world, and euerlasting life in the world to come …
Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · p. 228 · Open in the reader
Printed
… abſurdly; but it is joyned with exact care, and the utmoſt indeavour for the obtayningobtaining of ſomewhat that we formerly loſt, or did not before enjoy, a deſire to …
With rule
… abſurdly; but it is joyned with exact care, and the utmoſt indeavour for the obtayningobtaining of ſomewhat that we formerly loſt, or did not before enjoy, a deſire to …
Henry Ramsden · A Gleaning in Gods Harvest · p. 212 · Open in the reader
Printed
By this wee may learne to vſe all meanes for the obtayningobtaining of Gods bleſſings, and not to loſe any thing which wee might haue or …
With rule
By this wee may learne to vſe all meanes for the obtayningobtaining of Gods bleſſings, and not to loſe any thing which wee might haue or …
Henry Smith · Two Sermons of Jonahs Punishment · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Short Explanation of Hebrews A20414

Printed
4. Hee setteth Abraham's ObtayningObtaining, for a Pawne of their ObtayningObtaining; allbeeit hee knewe their Fayth should bee weaker …
With rule
4. Hee setteth Abraham's ObtayningObtaining, for a Pawne of their ObtayningObtaining; allbeeit hee knewe their Fayth should bee weaker …
David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
4. Hee setteth Abraham's ObtayningObtaining, for a Pawne of their ObtayningObtaining; allbeeit hee knewe their Fayth should bee weaker, in degree, than Abraham's.
With rule
4. Hee setteth Abraham's ObtayningObtaining, for a Pawne of their ObtayningObtaining; allbeeit hee knewe their Fayth should bee weaker, in degree, than Abraham's.
David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · p. 104 · Open in the reader