Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5413 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

maynmain

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

Puritas changed it: 189 times in 62 works
Consistency: 90.0% (189 of 210)
Reach if approved: ~221 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: main
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 210 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (189 changes in 62 works, 90.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 189)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… place where waters are gathered together, is called a Sea. Wherefore not onely the maynmain Ocean, but other lakes and pooles, yea and greater vessels that hold waters, are …
With rule
… place where waters are gathered together, is called a Sea. Wherefore not onely the maynmain Ocean, but other lakes and pooles, yea and greater vessels that hold waters, are …
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
Before I produce my teſtimonies for them, three maynmain objections would be cleered. Firſt, From their election, they may be choſen of others …
With rule
Before I produce my teſtimonies for them, three maynmain objections would be cleered. Firſt, From their election, they may be choſen of others …
John Yates · The Honor of Gods House · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to be like, as much as is poſsible: he endeuoreth notwithſtāding with might and maynmain, that they should not, onles al other wil conform them ſelues to ours. In …
With rule
… to be like, as much as is poſsible: he endeuoreth notwithſtāding with might and maynmain, that they should not, onles al other wil conform them ſelues to ours. In …
Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 2 · p. 183 · Open in the reader
Printed
2. All the blessings of God, and all his actions for our blessedness have this maynmain end to make us holy. We are elected by God in Christ that we …
With rule
2. All the blessings of God, and all his actions for our blessedness have this maynmain end to make us holy. We are elected by God in Christ that we …
Phineas Fletcher · A Fathers Testament · p. 160 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſeal againſt us; and ſo prove a ſeal of our greater condemnation. Therefore the maynmain queſtion is, Whether thou art a Believer? For although Chriſt in the Goſpel, hath …
With rule
… ſeal againſt us; and ſo prove a ſeal of our greater condemnation. Therefore the maynmain queſtion is, Whether thou art a Believer? For although Chriſt in the Goſpel, hath …
Richard Younge · A Short and Sure Way to Grace and Salvation · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you will uſe: that is the ſecond, the extent. Now, the third is the maynmain, the manner of the removall they pray for, Take away: But I ſee the …
With rule
… you will uſe: that is the ſecond, the extent. Now, the third is the maynmain, the manner of the removall they pray for, Take away: But I ſee the …
Richard Holdsworth · The Valley of Vision · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the end, vvhich as slaunderous and … as it is, is yet the principal and maynmain ground woorke of his vile …. This is …, that vvhereas it vvas at firste somevvhat …
With rule
… the end, vvhich as slaunderous and … as it is, is yet the principal and maynmain ground woorke of his vile …. This is …, that vvhereas it vvas at firste somevvhat …
John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the Idolaters circumcising in Israel: but as touching the relation, (which is the maynmain thing in a sacrament,) that it should seal up unto them the forgivnes of …
With rule
… of the Idolaters circumcising in Israel: but as touching the relation, (which is the maynmain thing in a sacrament,) that it should seal up unto them the forgivnes of …
Henry Ainsworth · Animadversion to Cliftons Advertisement · p. 72 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (21)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 20 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
And caſt the braſſe of brittle men and yrn' into the MaynMain;
With rule
And caſt the braſſe of brittle men and yrn' into the MaynMain;
Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 698 · Open in the reader