Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4804 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

incontinencieincontinency

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

Puritas changed it: 158 times in 113 works
Consistency: 89.2% (158 of 177)
Reach if approved: ~186 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: incontinency
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 177 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (158 changes in 113 works, 89.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 158)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… accompteth the bed vnſpotted, and the remedie the which God hathe ordeyned againſte the incontinencieincontinency of all thoſe which haue not the gift. Contrarily, ſhe accompteth for vnlawful coniunction …
With rule
… accompteth the bed vnſpotted, and the remedie the which God hathe ordeyned againſte the incontinencieincontinency of all thoſe which haue not the gift. Contrarily, ſhe accompteth for vnlawful coniunction …
Pierre Viret · A Christian Instruction Containing the Law and the Gospel · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… after his death diuided among his captaines. 3. This resemblance also fitteth the intemperancie and incontinencieincontinency of the Greeke state, which Alexander was not so much touched with, as his …
With rule
… after his death diuided among his captaines. 3. This resemblance also fitteth the intemperancie and incontinencieincontinency of the Greeke state, which Alexander was not so much touched with, as his …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
… other. I, in this treatiſe, doe ſimplie make contiuencie the contrary to intemperancie or incontinencieincontinency. For continencie is a vertue or power of the minde, receiued from the ſpirit …
With rule
… other. I, in this treatiſe, doe ſimplie make contiuencie the contrary to intemperancie or incontinencieincontinency. For continencie is a vertue or power of the minde, receiued from the ſpirit …
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 237 · Open in the reader
Printed
… unrighteousnesse and all sorts of injurie, whether by craft or violence, and against intemperancie, incontinencieincontinency unlawfull mariages, divorces, and whatsoever kinde of impurities: for these three where they reigne …
With rule
… unrighteousnesse and all sorts of injurie, whether by craft or violence, and against intemperancie, incontinencieincontinency unlawfull mariages, divorces, and whatsoever kinde of impurities: for these three where they reigne …
David Calderwood · The Pastor and the Prelate · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Christian man, vvho hath not a vvise, to haue a concubine, Neither doe … forsvveare incontinencieincontinency but matrimonie. This is the cause that the Pope taketh a … of his Priestes …
With rule
… Christian man, vvho hath not a vvise, to haue a concubine, Neither doe … forsvveare incontinencieincontinency but matrimonie. This is the cause that the Pope taketh a … of his Priestes …
John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader
Printed
… GOD: Of all intemperancie; becauſe we allow not their lawes of ſuperſtitious faſting: Of incontinencieincontinency and irreligion, becauſe we like not their monſtrous machorets, their orders of religion, falſly …
With rule
… GOD: Of all intemperancie; becauſe we allow not their lawes of ſuperſtitious faſting: Of incontinencieincontinency and irreligion, becauſe we like not their monſtrous machorets, their orders of religion, falſly …
Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Colossians 1 and 2 · p. 338 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fasting and prayer: and againe come together, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinencieincontinency. 2. Sam. 11. 11. Then Vriah answered Dauid, The Arke, and Israel, and Iudah dwell intents: and …
With rule
… fasting and prayer: and againe come together, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinencieincontinency. 2. Sam. 11. 11. Then Vriah answered Dauid, The Arke, and Israel, and Iudah dwell intents: and …
William Perkins · Christian Economy · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for example, whether it be to ſuch vnlawfull demaunds as this was, or to incontinencieincontinency, filthy gaine, ſeeking, or any ſuch like. The reaſon is, becauſe we are fickle …
With rule
… for example, whether it be to ſuch vnlawfull demaunds as this was, or to incontinencieincontinency, filthy gaine, ſeeking, or any ſuch like. The reaſon is, becauſe we are fickle …
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 686 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (19)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 14 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Unloveliness of Love-Locks A10199

Printed
… to cut, and cast off all those Lockes, and Emblems of our Vanitie, Pride, IncontinencieIncontinency, La…ciuiousnesse, and grosse Effeminacy, which Prognosticate some eminent, and fatall iudgement to our …
With rule
… to cut, and cast off all those Lockes, and Emblems of our Vanitie, Pride, IncontinencieIncontinency, La…ciuiousnesse, and grosse Effeminacy, which Prognosticate some eminent, and fatall iudgement to our …
William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · Open in the reader

The Overthrow of Stage Plays A10335

Printed
… needes haue such resemblances) bee compared rather to Mollitude, or Cowardnes, the woman to IncontinencieIncontinency. Beside that, the praise which that learned Knight geveth vnto dansing, he giveth it …
With rule
… needes haue such resemblances) bee compared rather to Mollitude, or Cowardnes, the woman to IncontinencieIncontinency. Beside that, the praise which that learned Knight geveth vnto dansing, he giveth it …
John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 135 · Open in the reader

Babylons Beauty A95878

Printed
… bodies too, for gold and gaine. Thirdly, to delineate and lay open Romes whoriſh IncontinencieIncontinency and uncleanneſſe, whereby ſhe is, indeed, moſt fitly called and counted the whore of …
With rule
… bodies too, for gold and gaine. Thirdly, to delineate and lay open Romes whoriſh IncontinencieIncontinency and uncleanneſſe, whereby ſhe is, indeed, moſt fitly called and counted the whore of …
John Vicars · Babylons Beauty · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… if he can endure it) a little while, on Romes ramiſh and right whoriſh IncontinencieIncontinency and moſt unchaſt painted Braverie, or rather Bawderie. And here in the firſt place …
With rule
… if he can endure it) a little while, on Romes ramiſh and right whoriſh IncontinencieIncontinency and moſt unchaſt painted Braverie, or rather Bawderie. And here in the firſt place …
John Vicars · Babylons Beauty · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… moſt filthie and luſtfull man, and condemned of many groſſe enormities, eſpecially for his IncontinencieIncontinency, being accuſed before the Emperour Otho the fourth, in a Synod at Rome, that …
With rule
… moſt filthie and luſtfull man, and condemned of many groſſe enormities, eſpecially for his IncontinencieIncontinency, being accuſed before the Emperour Otho the fourth, in a Synod at Rome, that …
John Vicars · Babylons Beauty · p. 9 · Open in the reader