Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5000 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vaynvain

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

Puritas changed it: 265 times in 91 works
Consistency: 99.2% (265 of 267)
Reach if approved: ~281 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: vain
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 267 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (265 changes in 91 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 265)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… it) according to the scriptures. Whether therfore our exception, or their defense be more vaynvain & frivolous, (as they speak) let the prudent judge.
With rule
… it) according to the scriptures. Whether therfore our exception, or their defense be more vaynvain & frivolous, (as they speak) let the prudent judge.
Henry Ainsworth · Animadversion to Cliftons Advertisement · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… The word of God is abuſed diuerſlie, ſome preaching it for contention, ſome for vaynvain glorie, ſome for couetouſnes to attayne to great worldly liuings and dignities, yet is …
With rule
… The word of God is abuſed diuerſlie, ſome preaching it for contention, ſome for vaynvain glorie, ſome for couetouſnes to attayne to great worldly liuings and dignities, yet is …
Walter Travers · Defense of the Ecclesiastical Discipline · p. 197 · Open in the reader
Printed
… shewed. And truly thys argumente hath euer semed vnto me, a veray slender & a vaynvain argumēt, though in dede it be obiected of schole doctours, yea, and such schoole …
With rule
… shewed. And truly thys argumente hath euer semed vnto me, a veray slender & a vaynvain argumēt, though in dede it be obiected of schole doctours, yea, and such schoole …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Sacrament of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader
Printed
… worke, as now to ſuch as beleue, (for to y^e vnbeleuers al is in vaynvain: Their eyes ar ſtarke blind they can ſee nothing) to ſuche as beleue (I …
With rule
… worke, as now to ſuch as beleue, (for to y^e vnbeleuers al is in vaynvain: Their eyes ar ſtarke blind they can ſee nothing) to ſuche as beleue (I …
John Bradford · Sermon of Repentance · Open in the reader
Printed
… the lawes made against them: whereby it came to passe that contrarie doctrine, and vaynvain and curious teaching either entred not into our Kirk, or was suddainly repressed and …
With rule
… the lawes made against them: whereby it came to passe that contrarie doctrine, and vaynvain and curious teaching either entred not into our Kirk, or was suddainly repressed and …
David Calderwood · The Pastor and the Prelate · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… inuencyons in thys treatyſe as to rebuke the vyces of oure tyme and the vaynvain imaginacyons of the carnall Goſpellers whyche wold fayne ſerue both God and Mammon, whiche …
With rule
… inuencyons in thys treatyſe as to rebuke the vyces of oure tyme and the vaynvain imaginacyons of the carnall Goſpellers whyche wold fayne ſerue both God and Mammon, whiche …
Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader
Printed
… other lyke. My child thou muſt not take the name af thy lord in vaynvain: thou muſt not backbytte thy neyg boure: thou muſt not name the deuyll, nor …
With rule
… other lyke. My child thou muſt not take the name af thy lord in vaynvain: thou muſt not backbytte thy neyg boure: thou muſt not name the deuyll, nor …
Martin Luther · Sermon on Matthew 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… humayne strēgthes & martiall affaires. Uerely except y^e Lord bylde y^e house, he laboureth in vaynvain that byldeth it. Excepte the Lorde kepeth y^e citte, he watcheth in vayne that …
With rule
… humayne strēgthes & martiall affaires. Uerely except y^e Lord bylde y^e house, he laboureth in vaynvain that byldeth it. Excepte the Lorde kepeth y^e citte, he watcheth in vayne that …
Thomas Becon · The New Policy of War · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

A Revelation of the Apocalypse A16853

Printed
… heed by this admonition, & the wicked world be made inexcuſable, as is obſerved Apoc. 8.13. VaynVain therfore is that which is affirmed of Antichriſt to ſit in the temple of …
With rule
… heed by this admonition, & the wicked world be made inexcuſable, as is obſerved Apoc. 8.13. VaynVain therfore is that which is affirmed of Antichriſt to ſit in the temple of …
Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 578 · Open in the reader