Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4780 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

complaynedcomplained

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

Puritas changed it: 258 times in 154 works
Consistency: 99.2% (258 of 260)
Reach if approved: ~273 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: complained
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 260 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (258 changes in 154 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 258)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… than vsed / for a coueringe of all their myschefes. in so moch the Prophete complaynedcomplained and sayde / how they cowed saye the Lorde lyueth / yet did they sweare to …
With rule
… than vsed / for a coueringe of all their myschefes. in so moch the Prophete complaynedcomplained and sayde / how they cowed saye the Lorde lyueth / yet did they sweare to …
Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · Open in the reader
Printed
… it, when hee moſt tenderly wept about it: but neither there, nor any where complaynedcomplained… God why hee would now caſt of his pe… ple, ſeeing he knewe perfectly …
With rule
… it, when hee moſt tenderly wept about it: but neither there, nor any where complaynedcomplained… God why hee would now caſt of his pe… ple, ſeeing he knewe perfectly …
Henry Jacob · The Sufferings and Victory of Christ in the Work of Redemption · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to tarye styll, or vtterly to take them away? Haue not our fore fathers complaynedcomplained of the nombre of ceremonies, of the superstition, and estimation of them?
With rule
… to tarye styll, or vtterly to take them away? Haue not our fore fathers complaynedcomplained of the nombre of ceremonies, of the superstition, and estimation of them?
Hugh Latimer · Sermon Before Parliament Began · Open in the reader
Printed
… prone and ready vnto this, that euen many of the Sainctes haue very much complaynedcomplained of this euil, and becauſe of it, haue oftentimes aboue meaſure afflicted their bodies …
With rule
… prone and ready vnto this, that euen many of the Sainctes haue very much complaynedcomplained of this euil, and becauſe of it, haue oftentimes aboue meaſure afflicted their bodies …
Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 251 · Open in the reader
Printed
#Sect. 3. The violence of ſubſcription iuſtly complaynedcomplained off as moſt vniuſt.
With rule
#Sect. 3. The violence of ſubſcription iuſtly complaynedcomplained off as moſt vniuſt.
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 108 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the whole context sheweth, which was to reprove the hypocrisy of the Iewes, who complaynedcomplained of injustice from God in punishing them, who were holy, for their fathers sins …
With rule
… the whole context sheweth, which was to reprove the hypocrisy of the Iewes, who complaynedcomplained of injustice from God in punishing them, who were holy, for their fathers sins …
John Robinson · Of Religious Communion Private and Public · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Lords day, and on the weeke dayes, may truely ſay as Syneſius ſometimes complaynedcomplained that they carried nothing away from their pariſhes or cures, but bonam conſcientiam & malam …
With rule
… the Lords day, and on the weeke dayes, may truely ſay as Syneſius ſometimes complaynedcomplained that they carried nothing away from their pariſhes or cures, but bonam conſcientiam & malam …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 142 · Open in the reader
Printed
… come away, he drew her mouth awry: and when she had confessed, the deuill complaynedcomplained vnto the other witch, and made her chide her.
With rule
… come away, he drew her mouth awry: and when she had confessed, the deuill complaynedcomplained vnto the other witch, and made her chide her.
George Gifford · Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts · 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.

Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation A19563

Printed
I ComplaynedComplained not of your crafty handling of Chrisostome without a iust cause, for when you …
With rule
I ComplaynedComplained not of your crafty handling of Chrisostome without a iust cause, for when you …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation · p. 339 · Open in the reader

The Application of Redemption A44342

Printed
… the light. For because the light … reflect … it comes to be reflected. So Job ComplaynedComplained. Job. 13. 26. Thou makest me to possess the sins of my Youth. So David, Psal …
With rule
… the light. For because the light … reflect … it comes to be reflected. So Job ComplaynedComplained. Job. 13. 26. Thou makest me to possess the sins of my Youth. So David, Psal …
Thomas Hooker · The Application of Redemption · p. 51 · Open in the reader