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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4745 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

staynedstained

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

Puritas changed it
228 times in 157 works
Consistency
99.5% (228 of 229)
Reach if approved
~241 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: stained
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
229 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (228 changes in 157 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 228)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … a King, and the glory of ſo famous a Nation may not be ignominiouſly ſtaynedstained, by ſelf-murdring practiſes.
    With rule
    … a King, and the glory of ſo famous a Nation may not be ignominiouſly ſtaynedstained, by ſelf-murdring practiſes.

    John Sym · Lifes Preservative Against Self-Killing · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … as that you acknowledge with the Prophet, all your righteouſnes to be like a ſtaynedstained cloth, and to this end labour in your ſelues, & perſwade it in others to …
    With rule
    … as that you acknowledge with the Prophet, all your righteouſnes to be like a ſtaynedstained cloth, and to this end labour in your ſelues, & perſwade it in others to …

    Pierre Viret · Epistle to the Faithful · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … to open their eyes: and many of them holding Chriſt haue been infected and ſtaynedstained with ſundrie errors of Antichriſt, yet their ſaluation being onely through faith, it cannot …
    With rule
    … to open their eyes: and many of them holding Chriſt haue been infected and ſtaynedstained with ſundrie errors of Antichriſt, yet their ſaluation being onely through faith, it cannot …

    George Gifford · Short Reply to the Donatists · p. 57 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … whole ryghtuousnesse, whan it is at the hyghest, than is the cloth that is staynedstained wyth menstrue, nor more pleasaunt vnto God, were it not for hym. Let no …
    With rule
    … whole ryghtuousnesse, whan it is at the hyghest, than is the cloth that is staynedstained wyth menstrue, nor more pleasaunt vnto God, were it not for hym. Let no …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … to our owne times, haue wee not ſeene all the Riuers of this Kingdome, ſtaynedstained with the blood of thoſe that made profeſſion of the truth of the Goſpell …
    With rule
    … to our owne times, haue wee not ſeene all the Riuers of this Kingdome, ſtaynedstained with the blood of thoſe that made profeſſion of the truth of the Goſpell …

    Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … his Saints, notwithſtanding their many infirmities; and to accept their obedience, though mingled and ſtaynedstained with much corruption. The Chaldee paraphraſes this place thus, foreign that is; Iehoſhua had ſonnes …
    With rule
    … his Saints, notwithſtanding their many infirmities; and to accept their obedience, though mingled and ſtaynedstained with much corruption. The Chaldee paraphraſes this place thus, foreign that is; Iehoſhua had ſonnes …

    William Pemble · Exposition of Zechariah 1-9 · p. 37 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … observe & check him for. Whereas those Byshops of whō he maketh mentiō, were neither staynedstained otherwise, for ought that may be gathered, nor herein did they more then the …
    With rule
    … observe & check him for. Whereas those Byshops of whō he maketh mentiō, were neither staynedstained otherwise, for ought that may be gathered, nor herein did they more then the …

    John Rainolds · Defense of Divorce and Remarriage · p. 44 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … those staynedstained good workes (put case they were good workes, they be defiled, and staynedstained, and as menstruous cloathes, as it is Isaiah 64.) shall they merit the glory to …
    With rule
    … those staynedstained good workes (put case they were good workes, they be defiled, and staynedstained, and as menstruous cloathes, as it is Isaiah 64.) shall they merit the glory to …

    Richard Sibbes · A Glance of Heaven · p. 50 · 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.