Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11112 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

plainelyplainly

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 8,657 times in 1,322 works
Consistency: 99.9% (8,657 of 8,658)
Reach if approved: ~9,098 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: plainly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 8,659 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (8,657 changes in 1,322 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 8,657)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… I had some diffultie to reade it in certaine places, and sometymes I mighte plainelyplainly perceiue, that the aucthours meanyng was chaunged by vntrue writyng: So that the aucthour …
With rule
… I had some diffultie to reade it in certaine places, and sometymes I mighte plainelyplainly perceiue, that the aucthours meanyng was chaunged by vntrue writyng: So that the aucthour …
William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of speache vsed in like ordre of wordes by both the Euangelistes, doth vs plainelyplainly to vnderstande, that we may through Christ make full payment thereof. Ells he woulde …
With rule
… of speache vsed in like ordre of wordes by both the Euangelistes, doth vs plainelyplainly to vnderstande, that we may through Christ make full payment thereof. Ells he woulde …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 134 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Scorners, though they nussell themselues in the Churches bosome: nay, I will speake most plainelyplainly; these are the worst Edomites, if not to them selues, to vs. Let the …
With rule
… Scorners, though they nussell themselues in the Churches bosome: nay, I will speake most plainelyplainly; these are the worst Edomites, if not to them selues, to vs. Let the …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… how farre they procéede in profeſſing Chriſt, and imbracing his Goſpell: and we ſhall plainelyplainly ſée, how greatly thoſe carnal Goſpellers which will not haue faith to be tried …
With rule
… how farre they procéede in profeſſing Chriſt, and imbracing his Goſpell: and we ſhall plainelyplainly ſée, how greatly thoſe carnal Goſpellers which will not haue faith to be tried …
George Gifford · Sermon on the Parable of the Sower · Open in the reader
Printed
Those who speake out more plainelyplainly then Bishop Lindsey, doe here Sect. 14 object to us, that reverence is due to …
With rule
Those who speake out more plainelyplainly then Bishop Lindsey, doe here Sect. 14 object to us, that reverence is due to …
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Firſt, we ſee the plaine following of the text in ſpeach and reaſon, doth plainelyplainly ſhewe, that this word this, is referred to the bread, for when he ſaith …
With rule
… Firſt, we ſee the plaine following of the text in ſpeach and reaſon, doth plainelyplainly ſhewe, that this word this, is referred to the bread, for when he ſaith …
Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 172 · Open in the reader
Printed
… The Apostles perceived not the miracle of the loaues. Mat. 16. 9. when Christ spake most plainelyplainly, they vnderstood him not. Luke 18. 31, 32, 33,34. Looke as a man travelling in a journey, howsoever …
With rule
… The Apostles perceived not the miracle of the loaues. Mat. 16. 9. when Christ spake most plainelyplainly, they vnderstood him not. Luke 18. 31, 32, 33,34. Looke as a man travelling in a journey, howsoever …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 117 · Open in the reader
Printed
… notwithstanding, may not all these so many and so monstruouse absurdities which you see plainelyplainly with your eyes, and which the very course of nature can in no wise …
With rule
… notwithstanding, may not all these so many and so monstruouse absurdities which you see plainelyplainly with your eyes, and which the very course of nature can in no wise …
John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Nature and Use of Things Indifferent B15350

Printed
WHEREIN IS PLAINELYPLAINLY DIScouered the vanitie of the Ministers Arguments for their Reſtitution; and they irrefutably euinced …
With rule
WHEREIN IS PLAINELYPLAINLY DIScouered the vanitie of the Ministers Arguments for their Reſtitution; and they irrefutably euinced …
Gabriel Powel · The Nature and Use of Things Indifferent · Open in the reader