Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11443 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

neerernearer

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

Puritas changed it: 4,079 times in 1,340 works
Consistency: 100% (4,079 of 4,079)
Reach if approved: ~4,286 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: nearer
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 4,079 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (4,079 changes in 1,340 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 4,079)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… propriety and excellency is called Loue: the liker any are to God, and the neerernearer they come to him, the more dearely ought they to be loued, and in …
With rule
… propriety and excellency is called Loue: the liker any are to God, and the neerernearer they come to him, the more dearely ought they to be loued, and in …
William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 385 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the ministerie of his seruants, & wait vpon the Lords good time, till he come neerernearer vnto vs by his spirit: neerernearer I saie, for he is come alreadie vnto …
With rule
… the ministerie of his seruants, & wait vpon the Lords good time, till he come neerernearer vnto vs by his spirit: neerernearer I saie, for he is come alreadie vnto …
Richard Greenham · Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God from heauen had decreed, that the strait end of his way shold be neerernearer then he thought, & they should fetch his soule frō him that same night. Albeit …
With rule
… God from heauen had decreed, that the strait end of his way shold be neerernearer then he thought, & they should fetch his soule frō him that same night. Albeit …
William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 118 · Open in the reader
Printed
In this place, or vpon the like occasion againe offered, neerernearer the end of the disputation, Master Sweet replied.
With rule
In this place, or vpon the like occasion againe offered, neerernearer the end of the disputation, Master Sweet replied.
Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
… many steppes and staires in the descent of death; some lower then other, and neerernearer to the gates of hell. Some transgresse of ignorance, some of knowledge; sinnes of …
With rule
… many steppes and staires in the descent of death; some lower then other, and neerernearer to the gates of hell. Some transgresse of ignorance, some of knowledge; sinnes of …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Antidicomarianites, who were condemned for heretikes for denying her perpetual virginitie; whereas he cometh neerernearer to the Colliridians, likewise cōdemned, thē we to y^e Heluidians. But let vs see …
With rule
… Antidicomarianites, who were condemned for heretikes for denying her perpetual virginitie; whereas he cometh neerernearer to the Colliridians, likewise cōdemned, thē we to y^e Heluidians. But let vs see …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 366 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that ſo doe, yet miſcarry for all that, and are never a whit the neerernearer for the attaining of their deſire in this kind, if they doe at leaſt …
With rule
… that ſo doe, yet miſcarry for all that, and are never a whit the neerernearer for the attaining of their deſire in this kind, if they doe at leaſt …
Thomas Gataker · Saint Stephens Last Will and Testament · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fathers, nor we are able to beare? Acts 15.10. Well, to proceede; Saint Iohn commeth neerernearer, and ſaith: This is the victorie that ouercommeth the world, euen our faith. There …
With rule
… fathers, nor we are able to beare? Acts 15.10. Well, to proceede; Saint Iohn commeth neerernearer, and ſaith: This is the victorie that ouercommeth the world, euen our faith. There …
George Gifford · Four Sermons · 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.