Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11122 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

certainelycertainly

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

Puritas changed it: 5,127 times in 1,062 works
Consistency: 99.9% (5,127 of 5,129)
Reach if approved: ~5,389 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: certainly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 5,129 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (5,127 changes in 1,062 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 5,127)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… those artes, I thynke is manifestly knowen to all men, so that I am certainelycertainly perswaded, it were but loste labour to stande longe in puttynge a diuer …e …
With rule
… those artes, I thynke is manifestly knowen to all men, so that I am certainelycertainly perswaded, it were but loste labour to stande longe in puttynge a diuer …e …
William Fulke · Anti-Prognostication · Open in the reader
Printed
… discords betwixt Ministers, I could as heartily wish they were false; as I doe certainelycertainly know, they are too true.
With rule
… discords betwixt Ministers, I could as heartily wish they were false; as I doe certainelycertainly know, they are too true.
Thomas Fuller · Josephs Party-Colored Coat · p. 181 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the clothes which the child lay in all night, sheé would tell him certainelycertainly. He went home, and put a table Napkin about her necke all night, and …
With rule
… of the clothes which the child lay in all night, sheé would tell him certainelycertainly. He went home, and put a table Napkin about her necke all night, and …
George Gifford · Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts · Open in the reader
Printed
… terrour of the Lords wrath better knowne and believed then it is, it would certainelycertainly reſtraine mens exceſſe in provoking the ſame: and make them more carefull and diligent …
With rule
… terrour of the Lords wrath better knowne and believed then it is, it would certainelycertainly reſtraine mens exceſſe in provoking the ſame: and make them more carefull and diligent …
William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 72 · Open in the reader
Printed
… likewise, and as surely shall the word of God spoken truly by his Minister certainelycertainly haue his effect, and shall not returne in vaine: And this is common to …
With rule
… likewise, and as surely shall the word of God spoken truly by his Minister certainelycertainly haue his effect, and shall not returne in vaine: And this is common to …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 760 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Courtier to a peaſant, and take away the righteouſneſſe of the innocent, God will certainelycertainly reproue you, chide, ſmite, curſe you for it, and ſo ſet it on, as …
With rule
… Courtier to a peaſant, and take away the righteouſneſſe of the innocent, God will certainelycertainly reproue you, chide, ſmite, curſe you for it, and ſo ſet it on, as …
Robert Harris · Gods Goodness and Mercy Laid Open · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not be at once in the Sunne, in the Moone and in the Crosse. CertainelyCertainly if in Saint Austins judgement Christs Body could not be in three places at …
With rule
… not be at once in the Sunne, in the Moone and in the Crosse. CertainelyCertainly if in Saint Austins judgement Christs Body could not be in three places at …
Daniel Featley · Transubstantiation Exploded · p. 124 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of all the earth, Gen. 18.25. and therefore it is without doubt, that hee will certainelycertainly iudge all the world.
With rule
… of all the earth, Gen. 18.25. and therefore it is without doubt, that hee will certainelycertainly iudge all the world.
John Foorthe · The Apostles Catechism · p. 64 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 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.

Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation A01532

Printed
CErtainelyCertainly the holy Fathers doubted not to affirme that Christ left his body here on …
With rule
CErtainelyCertainly the holy Fathers doubted not to affirme that Christ left his body here on …
Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 173 · Open in the reader

The Resolved Christian Exhorting to Resolution A09887

Printed
CErtainelyCertainly God loues you neuer the leſſe, though you preſently ſuffer for Chriſts cauſe, than …
With rule
CErtainelyCertainly God loues you neuer the leſſe, though you preſently ſuffer for Chriſts cauſe, than …
Gabriel Powel · The Resolved Christian Exhorting to Resolution · p. 287 · Open in the reader