Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8560 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

staynestain

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it: 93 times in 64 works
Consistency: 95.8% (93 of 97)
Reach if approved: ~102 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stain
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 97 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (93 changes in 64 works, 95.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 93)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
So to be staynestain, in my stronge doungion,
With rule
So to be staynestain, in my stronge doungion,
David Lindsay · The Tragical Death of David Beaton · Open in the reader
Printed
… apertly 288.1. ſtrengthener 291.4. for and, not without. 293.38. conſtat. 295.17. for as, an 296.2. for ſecretly, ſecurely. 22. for ſtaynestain, ſlaine. 37. is a vertuous. 298 37. Britans. 299.4. proſecuting 300.2 yet is it Pauls. 9. to vnderualye. 301.14. foreign 104.24. wee neither …
With rule
… apertly 288.1. ſtrengthener 291.4. for and, not without. 293.38. conſtat. 295.17. for as, an 296.2. for ſecretly, ſecurely. 22. for ſtaynestain, ſlaine. 37. is a vertuous. 298 37. Britans. 299.4. proſecuting 300.2 yet is it Pauls. 9. to vnderualye. 301.14. foreign 104.24. wee neither …
William Sclater · Exposition of 2 Thessalonians · Open in the reader
Printed
… and yet wyll they not be accōpted to be forsakers of it. Thy do staynestain themselues with dyuers glosses and colours that they might not be known of the …
With rule
… and yet wyll they not be accōpted to be forsakers of it. Thy do staynestain themselues with dyuers glosses and colours that they might not be known of the …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
… blemyſhe? Abraham was a ‡ Prince of God, yet Hagarenes to this day are his ſtaynestain. Moſes was a King, and faythful with God: yet ſo ſinned, as to come …
With rule
… blemyſhe? Abraham was a ‡ Prince of God, yet Hagarenes to this day are his ſtaynestain. Moſes was a King, and faythful with God: yet ſo ſinned, as to come …
Hugh Broughton · A Treatise Proving Melchizedek to be Shem · Open in the reader
Printed
… in our vayne pretences and imaginations. But when wee finde, that there is any staynestain of wickednes in vs which displeaseth God, let euery of vs bee in displeasure …
With rule
… in our vayne pretences and imaginations. But when wee finde, that there is any staynestain of wickednes in vs which displeaseth God, let euery of vs bee in displeasure …
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 820 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſinne. And it is the water of Regeneration only that will waſh out this ſtaynestain. Thy naturall birth may entitle thee to a temporall and earthly Kingdome. Only the …
With rule
… ſinne. And it is the water of Regeneration only that will waſh out this ſtaynestain. Thy naturall birth may entitle thee to a temporall and earthly Kingdome. Only the …
Daniel Dyke · Two Treatises · p. 189 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his fleſh, that is righteouſnes, holynes, innocency, and immortality: but alſo to be a ſtaynestain ſacrifice for our ſyns, to ſatiſfy his iuſtice, to conuert or turue death in …
With rule
… his fleſh, that is righteouſnes, holynes, innocency, and immortality: but alſo to be a ſtaynestain ſacrifice for our ſyns, to ſatiſfy his iuſtice, to conuert or turue death in …
John Bradford · Two Notable Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… are preſently lightened: for though looking to the materiall Sunne, bee a cauſe to ſtaynestain, and tanne the face: yet looking to the Sunne of Righteouſneſſe is a meanes …
With rule
… are preſently lightened: for though looking to the materiall Sunne, bee a cauſe to ſtaynestain, and tanne the face: yet looking to the Sunne of Righteouſneſſe is a meanes …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Seven Consolatory Psalms of David · p. 98 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Humble Address Both of Church and Poor to Britains Monarch A02351

Printed
Neyther let such a Guilt (SIR) lye on your Land, nor StayneStain on the Gospell, that the Church should not onlie be seene Sacrilegiouslie robbed of …
With rule
Neyther let such a Guilt (SIR) lye on your Land, nor StayneStain on the Gospell, that the Church should not onlie be seene Sacrilegiouslie robbed of …
William Guild · The Humble Address Both of Church and Poor to Britains Monarch · p. 19 · Open in the reader

Exposition of 2 Thessalonians A11588

Printed
… Children miſerable? 1 Them ſee permitted to fowleſt euils; thoſe we call euills of fault. 2 StayneStain with their eaſe; baned with their wealth; obfirmed in euill. 3 Forlorne of all vertuous …
With rule
… Children miſerable? 1 Them ſee permitted to fowleſt euils; thoſe we call euills of fault. 2 StayneStain with their eaſe; baned with their wealth; obfirmed in euill. 3 Forlorne of all vertuous …
William Sclater · Exposition of 2 Thessalonians · p. 296 · Open in the reader