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Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4819 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pertayningpertaining

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

Puritas changed it
177 times in 89 works
Consistency
99.4% (177 of 178)
Reach if approved
~187 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: pertaining
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
178 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (177 changes in 89 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 177)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … are receiued and ſealed: then were the Hebewes their children to be taken as pertayningpertaining to the couenant and league with God, wherwith they were inrolled, alonely the circumſtance …
    With rule
    … are receiued and ſealed: then were the Hebewes their children to be taken as pertayningpertaining to the couenant and league with God, wherwith they were inrolled, alonely the circumſtance …

    John Bradford · A Double Summons to Repentance and Worthy Receiving the Lords Supper · p. 86 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    radicall, pertayningpertaining to the roote, naturall.
    With rule
    radicall, pertayningpertaining to the roote, naturall.

    Robert Cawdrey · Hard English Words Borrowed from Hebrew Greek Latin or French etc · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … if all the rites that Chriſt vſed at hys ſupper were of neceſsitie and pertayningpertaining to his inſtitution: then there muſt needes be thirtene together at the communion and …
    With rule
    … if all the rites that Chriſt vſed at hys ſupper were of neceſsitie and pertayningpertaining to his inſtitution: then there muſt needes be thirtene together at the communion and …

    Robert Crowley · The Subtle Sophistry of Watsons Sermons before Queen Mary · p. 159 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … meate) muſt be mortified: I. By the ſhedding of their bloud, and other actions pertayningpertaining to that trade, ſeparating the groſeſt impure from the pure. II. Their fleſh muſt …
    With rule
    … meate) muſt be mortified: I. By the ſhedding of their bloud, and other actions pertayningpertaining to that trade, ſeparating the groſeſt impure from the pure. II. Their fleſh muſt …

    Thomas Granger · The Bread of Life · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … do take Hades and inferos indifferētly for the ſtate of the Dead, as wel pertayningpertaining to yt Soules of the Godly, as to the Damned likewiſe. Athanaſius alſo ſaying …
    With rule
    … do take Hades and inferos indifferētly for the ſtate of the Dead, as wel pertayningpertaining to yt Soules of the Godly, as to the Damned likewiſe. Athanaſius alſo ſaying …

    Henry Jacob · Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ · p. 161 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … hope of saluation, and at whose hand only I loke for all good thinges, pertayningpertaining either vnto the bodye or vnto the soule: so lykewyse I bothe beleue and …
    With rule
    … hope of saluation, and at whose hand only I loke for all good thinges, pertayningpertaining either vnto the bodye or vnto the soule: so lykewyse I bothe beleue and …

    Thomas Becon · The Sick Mans Salve · p. 267 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Nowe I would haue certaine queſtions pertayningpertaining vnto this matter diſtinctly ſet foorth vnto me, and firſt whome thou thinkeſt fit …
    With rule
    Nowe I would haue certaine queſtions pertayningpertaining vnto this matter diſtinctly ſet foorth vnto me, and firſt whome thou thinkeſt fit …

    Theodore Beza · Christian Questions and Answers Part 2 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … vpon him the perſon of an other mā, ſo that theſe thinges are not pertayningpertaining vnto him, but vnto men not yet regenerate, or ſtill wallowing in ſinnes. And …
    With rule
    … vpon him the perſon of an other mā, ſo that theſe thinges are not pertayningpertaining vnto him, but vnto men not yet regenerate, or ſtill wallowing in ſinnes. And …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

Emblems Ancient and Modern A15631

  • Printed
    PertayningPertaining to Selfe-love; and, lo, betweene
    With rule
    PertayningPertaining to Selfe-love; and, lo, betweene

    George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 178 · Open in the reader