Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4915 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

gaynedgained

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

Puritas changed it: 166 times in 102 works
Consistency: 100% (166 of 166)
Reach if approved: ~174 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: gained
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 166 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (166 changes in 102 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 166)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the vncircumciſed will make great triumphes, when they ſhall heare hereof, ſuppoſing they haue gaynedgained much, when they can finde a man that hath fallen from his God: but …
With rule
… the vncircumciſed will make great triumphes, when they ſhall heare hereof, ſuppoſing they haue gaynedgained much, when they can finde a man that hath fallen from his God: but …
John Prime · Of Nature and Grace · p. 189 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it prove no snare to us.) For by this meanes the heart is perfectly gaynedgained, and the thing is as good as done in regard of Gods acceptance, and …
With rule
… it prove no snare to us.) For by this meanes the heart is perfectly gaynedgained, and the thing is as good as done in regard of Gods acceptance, and …
Richard Sibbes · The Souls Conflict With Itself · p. 442 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bondage, haue beene driuen out to seeke happinesse in Christ, and out of sorrow gaynedgained their ioy.
With rule
… bondage, haue beene driuen out to seeke happinesse in Christ, and out of sorrow gaynedgained their ioy.
Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or what profitt could ariſe thereby to the Church of Chriſt? Had you clerely gaynedgained al that, for which you contend, yet had you not prooued any thing at …
With rule
… or what profitt could ariſe thereby to the Church of Chriſt? Had you clerely gaynedgained al that, for which you contend, yet had you not prooued any thing at …
William Whitaker · Answer to Reynolds Book · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
The time of the intermissions may be gaynedgained dayly, and sundry inconueniences preuented.
With rule
The time of the intermissions may be gaynedgained dayly, and sundry inconueniences preuented.
John Brinsley · The Grammar School · p. 338 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or that no such examination bee made of them as they deserue: yet they gaynedgained nothing thereby; because there is a heauenly Iudge, which forgetteth not any thing, but …
With rule
… or that no such examination bee made of them as they deserue: yet they gaynedgained nothing thereby; because there is a heauenly Iudge, which forgetteth not any thing, but …
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 929 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that any of the Apostles confessed Christ: yet no primacy of superiority is hereby gaynedgained. if the sentence as Origen expounded it, perteyneth to euery faithfull disciple: What aduauntage …
With rule
… that any of the Apostles confessed Christ: yet no primacy of superiority is hereby gaynedgained. if the sentence as Origen expounded it, perteyneth to euery faithfull disciple: What aduauntage …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 226 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſufficiently, that there is none more peſtilent an enemie, than a flatterer, for what gaynedgained hee by his blaunching elſe but a miſchiefe, which no earthly King nor Potentate …
With rule
… ſufficiently, that there is none more peſtilent an enemie, than a flatterer, for what gaynedgained hee by his blaunching elſe but a miſchiefe, which no earthly King nor Potentate …
Martin Luther · The Liberty of a Christian · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.