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thorowlythoroughly

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

Puritas changed it
1,403 times in 642 works
Consistency
99.5% (1,403 of 1,410)
Reach if approved
~1,483 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: thoroughly
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,411 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,403 changes in 642 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,403)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … as of a most peruyciouse poyson. I thought one tyme or other, ye wolde thorowlythoroughly dyscouer your owne myscheues, as ye haue now done in dede. And we thanke …
    With rule
    … as of a most peruyciouse poyson. I thought one tyme or other, ye wolde thorowlythoroughly dyscouer your owne myscheues, as ye haue now done in dede. And we thanke …

    John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … which the Lord requireth to be giuen wholly vnto him. Let the matter bee thorowlythoroughly examined: and if the ſeuerall points of that Religion, which wee profeſſe and preach …
    With rule
    … which the Lord requireth to be giuen wholly vnto him. Let the matter bee thorowlythoroughly examined: and if the ſeuerall points of that Religion, which wee profeſſe and preach …

    Samuel Hieron · The Doctrines Trial · p. 52 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … it is better to looke long than to leape lightly: rake vp the aſhes thorowlythoroughly, and turne them to and fro, that you be ſure ther remain no ſpark …
    With rule
    … it is better to looke long than to leape lightly: rake vp the aſhes thorowlythoroughly, and turne them to and fro, that you be ſure ther remain no ſpark …

    Andrew Kingsmill · A View of Mans Estate · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … because I doe not with a true faith lay hold vpon the word and thorowlythoroughly beleeue it. For why should I feare, if I did verely beleue that I …
    With rule
    … because I doe not with a true faith lay hold vpon the word and thorowlythoroughly beleeue it. For why should I feare, if I did verely beleue that I …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 264 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the syxt dyd not gyue the ecclesiastical benefices but vnto such Prestes, as ware thorowlythoroughly proued & tryed both in lyfe & learnyng. And he made a constituciō that all prelates …
    With rule
    … the syxt dyd not gyue the ecclesiastical benefices but vnto such Prestes, as ware thorowlythoroughly proued & tryed both in lyfe & learnyng. And he made a constituciō that all prelates …

    Thomas Becon · An Invective Against Swearing · p. lxxxiii · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of thoſe things which haue been ſpoken, and when yee haue more deepely and thorowlythoroughly ingraffed them in your minds, afterwards to goe about the neceſſaries of this life …
    With rule
    … of thoſe things which haue been ſpoken, and when yee haue more deepely and thorowlythoroughly ingraffed them in your minds, afterwards to goe about the neceſſaries of this life …

    John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 269 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … for them selues. If he calles them Puritanes which desire to haue the Church thorowlythoroughly reformed, there is no such dissention betweene them, but that they all agree in …
    With rule
    … for them selues. If he calles them Puritanes which desire to haue the Church thorowlythoroughly reformed, there is no such dissention betweene them, but that they all agree in …

    William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 61 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … to theſe our dayes, they who after their revolt from the Faith, have beene thorowlythoroughly touched in conſcience for their ſinne, have not unwillingly made recantations, and confeſſions, and …
    With rule
    … to theſe our dayes, they who after their revolt from the Faith, have beene thorowlythoroughly touched in conſcience for their ſinne, have not unwillingly made recantations, and confeſſions, and …

    William Gouge · Recover from Apostasy · p. 19 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

7 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.

Exposition of 1 Thessalonians A11591

  • Printed
    … preuayling of GODS Word may ſeuen degrees bee diſtinguiſhed. Firſt, Conuincing. Secondly, Terrifying. Thirdly, ThorowlyThoroughly humbling. Fourthly, Delighting. Fiftly, Reſtrayning. Sixtly, Partially reforming. Seuenthly, ThorowlyThoroughly renewing.
    With rule
    … preuayling of GODS Word may ſeuen degrees bee diſtinguiſhed. Firſt, Conuincing. Secondly, Terrifying. Thirdly, ThorowlyThoroughly humbling. Fourthly, Delighting. Fiftly, Reſtrayning. Sixtly, Partially reforming. Seuenthly, ThorowlyThoroughly renewing.

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Conuincing. Secondly, Terrifying. Thirdly, ThorowlyThoroughly humbling. Fourthly, Delighting. Fiftly, Reſtrayning. Sixtly, Partially reforming. Seuenthly, ThorowlyThoroughly renewing.
    With rule
    … Conuincing. Secondly, Terrifying. Thirdly, ThorowlyThoroughly humbling. Fourthly, Delighting. Fiftly, Reſtrayning. Sixtly, Partially reforming. Seuenthly, ThorowlyThoroughly renewing.

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Thirdly, ThorowlyThoroughly to humble; when all high thoughts of ſelfe-righteouſneſſe are caſt downe: and the …
    With rule
    Thirdly, ThorowlyThoroughly to humble; when all high thoughts of ſelfe-righteouſneſſe are caſt downe: and the …

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 37 · Open in the reader

A Practical Discourse of Gods Sovereignty A33748

  • Printed
    … undertakes, it goesthorow with. To doe a thing Effectually, is to doe it Perfectly, ThorowlyThoroughly, Succeſsfully; that is, So to uſe and apply the Means, that the End deſigned …
    With rule
    … undertakes, it goesthorow with. To doe a thing Effectually, is to doe it Perfectly, ThorowlyThoroughly, Succeſsfully; that is, So to uſe and apply the Means, that the End deſigned …

    Elisha Coles · A Practical Discourse of Gods Sovereignty · p. 171 · Open in the reader

Westminster Annotations A36467

  • Printed
    considered it] ThorowlyThoroughly viewed it, Job 37. 14. Psal. 119. 95. Isai. 43. 18.
    With rule
    considered it] ThorowlyThoroughly viewed it, Job 37. 14. Psal. 119. 95. Isai. 43. 18.

    John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader

Letter Concerning the Salvability of the Heathen A45134

  • Printed
    … The one is that word [thorowlythoroughly] in the Eighth Article. The three Creeds ought ThorowlyThoroughly to be received and believed. If ThorowlyThoroughly, then in every part, then the beginning …
    With rule
    … The one is that word [thorowlythoroughly] in the Eighth Article. The three Creeds ought ThorowlyThoroughly to be received and believed. If ThorowlyThoroughly, then in every part, then the beginning …

    John Humfrey · Letter Concerning the Salvability of the Heathen · p. 33 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the Eighth Article. The three Creeds ought ThorowlyThoroughly to be received and believed. If ThorowlyThoroughly, then in every part, then the beginning, the middle, and the end, of the …
    With rule
    … the Eighth Article. The three Creeds ought ThorowlyThoroughly to be received and believed. If ThorowlyThoroughly, then in every part, then the beginning, the middle, and the end, of the …

    John Humfrey · Letter Concerning the Salvability of the Heathen · p. 33 · Open in the reader