Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11289 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

easelyeasily

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

Puritas changed it: 1,273 times in 245 works
Consistency: 99.8% (1,273 of 1,275)
Reach if approved: ~1,340 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: easily
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,275 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,273 changes in 245 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,273)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… for a small tyme, they were of thynges possyble and in mannys power, and easelyeasily they myght be broken and dyspensed wyth in the wyfe and the daughter. Neuer …
With rule
… for a small tyme, they were of thynges possyble and in mannys power, and easelyeasily they myght be broken and dyspensed wyth in the wyfe and the daughter. Neuer …
John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · p. clv · Open in the reader
Printed
The hand ſhould buffet hym ſelfe? the lounge curſe hit ſelfe? For eaſelyeasily then ceaſſeth any theyr Tirannye to other lymmes to ſeeme cruell, when thus they …
With rule
The hand ſhould buffet hym ſelfe? the lounge curſe hit ſelfe? For eaſelyeasily then ceaſſeth any theyr Tirannye to other lymmes to ſeeme cruell, when thus they …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
… ineurtably hāgeth vpon all mainteyners of a fals religion: Then ſhall the greateſt daunger eaſelyeasily deuoure & ſwallow vp the ſmaller. If your grace ſhall conſiver, that either ye muſt …
With rule
… ineurtably hāgeth vpon all mainteyners of a fals religion: Then ſhall the greateſt daunger eaſelyeasily deuoure & ſwallow vp the ſmaller. If your grace ſhall conſiver, that either ye muſt …
John Knox · Letter to Lady Mary · Open in the reader
Printed
Who ſo knoweth this one point of cunning well, ſhall eaſelyeasily auoide all the engins and ſnares of the Deuill, who by putting man in …
With rule
Who ſo knoweth this one point of cunning well, ſhall eaſelyeasily auoide all the engins and ſnares of the Deuill, who by putting man in …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Galatians · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
For of cheſe thinges that you haue hearde / you maye eaſelyeasily gather / howe great and howe incomparable a treaſure ande not able to be eſtemed …
With rule
For of cheſe thinges that you haue hearde / you maye eaſelyeasily gather / howe great and howe incomparable a treaſure ande not able to be eſtemed …
Martin Luther · Sermon on John 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Whyther for our dedes & merites, or for Christes bloudes sake, and so shal we easelyeasily perceaue, whyther Christ by hys death hath delyuered vs onely from original synne, or …
With rule
… Whyther for our dedes & merites, or for Christes bloudes sake, and so shal we easelyeasily perceaue, whyther Christ by hys death hath delyuered vs onely from original synne, or …
Thomas Becon · A New Years Gift More Precious than Gold · Open in the reader
Printed
… verye whote and drye in qualitie, the cloude also very thycke and stronge, that easelyeasily wyll not geue place to the wynde, to escape out.
With rule
… verye whote and drye in qualitie, the cloude also very thycke and stronge, that easelyeasily wyll not geue place to the wynde, to escape out.
William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue a heart, which is harde to ouercome: they haue thornes which will not eaſelyeasily be deſtroyed: here lieth the victorie and getting of the ſpurs: this man ſhall …
With rule
… haue a heart, which is harde to ouercome: they haue thornes which will not eaſelyeasily be deſtroyed: here lieth the victorie and getting of the ſpurs: this man ſhall …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 26 · 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.

A Civil Nosegay A07402

Printed
… truely he addity this proporcion in publyce thinges to be the benefyt of god. EaſelyEasily therfore may it be iudged wher iuſtice diſtributine hath vſe, as who ſayth euery …
With rule
… truely he addity this proporcion in publyce thinges to be the benefyt of god. EaſelyEasily therfore may it be iudged wher iuſtice diſtributine hath vſe, as who ſayth euery …
Philipp Melanchthon · A Civil Nosegay · Open in the reader

Commentary on Romans A14353

Printed
… them ſuch affections. But how ſhall we vnderſtād that they are ſubiect vnto vanitie? EaſelyEasily ynough: not in dede accordyng to the ſubſtaunce (as they ſay) of theyr owne …
With rule
… them ſuch affections. But how ſhall we vnderſtād that they are ſubiect vnto vanitie? EaſelyEasily ynough: not in dede accordyng to the ſubſtaunce (as they ſay) of theyr owne …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · p. 212 · Open in the reader