Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5057 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

contradictoriecontradictory

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

Puritas changed it: 195 times in 113 works
Consistency: 98.9% (195 of 197)
Reach if approved: ~207 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: contradictory
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 197 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (195 changes in 113 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 195)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… denounceth terrible threatnings, and an horrible deſtruction. Truly one would take theſe things as contradictoriecontradictory one to another. But hauing comforted the faithful, we muſt not thinke it ſtrange …
With rule
… denounceth terrible threatnings, and an horrible deſtruction. Truly one would take theſe things as contradictoriecontradictory one to another. But hauing comforted the faithful, we muſt not thinke it ſtrange …
John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · p. 580 · Open in the reader
Printed
… doctrine of diuelles, and fetched from the pit of hell, what can bee more contradictoriecontradictory to the Spirit of God, and to the plaine euidence of the Scripture.
With rule
… doctrine of diuelles, and fetched from the pit of hell, what can bee more contradictoriecontradictory to the Spirit of God, and to the plaine euidence of the Scripture.
Edward Elton · Exposition of Colossians · p. 850 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we ſhall loo… more narrowly into the former diſtinction, we ſhall find it flat contradictoriecontradictory to it ſelf and to the commandment. For by arbitrarie furtherances we muſt underſtand …
With rule
… we ſhall loo… more narrowly into the former diſtinction, we ſhall find it flat contradictoriecontradictory to it ſelf and to the commandment. For by arbitrarie furtherances we muſt underſtand …
John Ball · A Friendly Trial of the Grounds Tending to Separation · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for the wickedneſſe of other men comming thereunto. 1. Sam. 2. 24. 17. Where the place is plainely contradictoriecontradictory to his aſſertion, and the tranſlation is good, as learned and iudicious Diuines doe …
With rule
… for the wickedneſſe of other men comming thereunto. 1. Sam. 2. 24. 17. Where the place is plainely contradictoriecontradictory to his aſſertion, and the tranſlation is good, as learned and iudicious Diuines doe …
Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · p. 235 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the positiue and absolute texts; it makes them conditionall, ambiguous, and doubtfull, yea, and contradictoriecontradictory to themselues: Secondly, it makes those conditionall placcs which are cited to be absolute …
With rule
… the positiue and absolute texts; it makes them conditionall, ambiguous, and doubtfull, yea, and contradictoriecontradictory to themselues: Secondly, it makes those conditionall placcs which are cited to be absolute …
William Prynne · The Perpetuity of a Regenerate Mans Estate · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
… word read and preached in the synagogues, as appeareth Acts. 13. 42. 44. 46. 48. And how was it contradictoriecontradictory to Gods mercy to the Iewes, when his prophets wrote some of the scriptures …
With rule
… word read and preached in the synagogues, as appeareth Acts. 13. 42. 44. 46. 48. And how was it contradictoriecontradictory to Gods mercy to the Iewes, when his prophets wrote some of the scriptures …
Henry Ainsworth · A Defense of the Holy Scriptures · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of good men in Scripture doe not bind conſcience, but onely (ſuppoſing them not contradictoriecontradictory to precepts) warrant it; they doe not make a thing needfull, or ſinfull, but …
With rule
… of good men in Scripture doe not bind conſcience, but onely (ſuppoſing them not contradictoriecontradictory to precepts) warrant it; they doe not make a thing needfull, or ſinfull, but …
William Whately · A Care Cloth · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
Things of contradiction or contradictoriecontradictory, as to make things at once to be, and not to be; a body …
With rule
Things of contradiction or contradictoriecontradictory, as to make things at once to be, and not to be; a body …
Thomas Wilson · Theological Rules to Guide Us in the Understanding and Practice of Scripture · p. 8 · 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.

The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 A41659

Printed
… Yea Cicero lib. 1. de Nat. Deorum, brings in Epicurus denying, that either part of ContradictorieContradictory Propoſitions were true. In the room of Logick Epicurus introduced his Canonick Ratiocination: whence …
With rule
… Yea Cicero lib. 1. de Nat. Deorum, brings in Epicurus denying, that either part of ContradictorieContradictory Propoſitions were true. In the room of Logick Epicurus introduced his Canonick Ratiocination: whence …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 443 · Open in the reader