Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11418 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

abrodeabroad

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

Puritas changed it: 824 times in 220 works
Consistency: 100% (824 of 824)
Reach if approved: ~866 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: abroad
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 824 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (824 changes in 220 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 824)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… that iuſt cauſe to lament the ſtate of ſo many, whom we ſee ſcattered abrodeabroad as ſheepe hauing no ſhepheard: neither to complaine with Auguſtine, that there are many …
With rule
… that iuſt cauſe to lament the ſtate of ſo many, whom we ſee ſcattered abrodeabroad as ſheepe hauing no ſhepheard: neither to complaine with Auguſtine, that there are many …
Samuel Hieron · The Preachers Plea · p. 145 · Open in the reader
Printed
… simple, with these your vanities, which from time, to time, ye foster, and spred abrodeabroad. Now to the second, which I will but onely touch, to put you in …
With rule
… simple, with these your vanities, which from time, to time, ye foster, and spred abrodeabroad. Now to the second, which I will but onely touch, to put you in …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 382 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cō forte, were compelled to forsake the vniueclitye, leue their bokes, & seke theyr lyuynge abrodeabroad in the country? Yea & in the cuntry manye Grāmer Scholes founded of a godly …
With rule
… cō forte, were compelled to forsake the vniueclitye, leue their bokes, & seke theyr lyuynge abrodeabroad in the country? Yea & in the cuntry manye Grāmer Scholes founded of a godly …
Thomas Lever · Sermon Preached at Pauls Cross · Open in the reader
Printed
… which teſtifyeth of vs, how that of our ſelues we are but loſt, ſcattred abrodeabroad, woūded, weake, and feble ſhepe. And ſo ſhulde we haue no nede of Chryſte …
With rule
… which teſtifyeth of vs, how that of our ſelues we are but loſt, ſcattred abrodeabroad, woūded, weake, and feble ſhepe. And ſo ſhulde we haue no nede of Chryſte …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Psalm 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is enioyned vs. Wo therfore be vnto vs, if we do not spryncle it abrodeabroad. Wo be vnto vs, if we holde our peace. Here is eternall dā nacion …
With rule
… is enioyned vs. Wo therfore be vnto vs, if we do not spryncle it abrodeabroad. Wo be vnto vs, if we holde our peace. Here is eternall dā nacion …
Thomas Becon · An Invective Against Swearing · Open in the reader
Printed
… sclaunderous libelle, in forme of an apologie: geuen out into the courte, and spread abrodeabroad in diuerse other places of the Realme.
With rule
… sclaunderous libelle, in forme of an apologie: geuen out into the courte, and spread abrodeabroad in diuerse other places of the Realme.
William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · Open in the reader
Printed
… or other. Now there is great feare, for many beleeue that the deuil is abrodeabroad indeede, and hath raysed vp the windes, and brought the thunders.
With rule
… or other. Now there is great feare, for many beleeue that the deuil is abrodeabroad indeede, and hath raysed vp the windes, and brought the thunders.
George Gifford · Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils · Open in the reader
Printed
… by the crosse whā Christ hynge vpon it beckynge with ther heades and casting abrodeabroad ther armes / thinkinge that he coude not do so moche as ones saue hymself.
With rule
… by the crosse whā Christ hynge vpon it beckynge with ther heades and casting abrodeabroad ther armes / thinkinge that he coude not do so moche as ones saue hymself.
Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.