Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11512 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

briefelybriefly

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

Puritas changed it: 992 times in 428 works
Consistency: 99.9% (992 of 993)
Reach if approved: ~1,043 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: briefly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 993 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (992 changes in 428 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 992)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Take it briefelybriefly in theſe few Directions.
With rule
Take it briefelybriefly in theſe few Directions.
Thomas Gataker · Saint Stephens Last Will and Testament · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
To theſe I briefelybriefly anſwer, that
With rule
To theſe I briefelybriefly anſwer, that
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 150 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Saluation of the Lord Herein, I say, the paines that I haue taken, is briefelybriefly (for the case of the Reader) to point onely (as it were) at the …
With rule
… Saluation of the Lord Herein, I say, the paines that I haue taken, is briefelybriefly (for the case of the Reader) to point onely (as it were) at the …
William Guild · Moses Unveiled · Open in the reader
Printed
… wiſe in this world, muſt be a foole, that he may be wiſe . This briefelybriefly, to cleere this Doctrine.
With rule
… wiſe in this world, muſt be a foole, that he may be wiſe . This briefelybriefly, to cleere this Doctrine.
Samuel Hieron · The Life and Death of Dorcas · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
Inverting the order: Firſt then, What doth not hinder? I anſwer briefelybriefly and punctually, thus.
With rule
Inverting the order: Firſt then, What doth not hinder? I anſwer briefelybriefly and punctually, thus.
Thomas Hooker · The Pattern of Perfection Exhibited in Gods Image on Adam · p. 345 · Open in the reader
Printed
Others more briefelybriefly thus.
With rule
Others more briefelybriefly thus.
Thomas Barnes · The Court of Conscience · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for which he pawneth as it were his glory and life. Thus St. Auſtine briefelybriefly reſolveth the point; What is Gods oath? (ſaith he) a ſolemne kinde of atteſtation …
With rule
… for which he pawneth as it were his glory and life. Thus St. Auſtine briefelybriefly reſolveth the point; What is Gods oath? (ſaith he) a ſolemne kinde of atteſtation …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 553 · Open in the reader
Printed
… now stand to repeate the answeres, only where any new matter occurreth, I wil briefelybriefly note it vpon the first conclusion: hée aunsweareth another conclusion, that no power vppon …
With rule
… now stand to repeate the answeres, only where any new matter occurreth, I wil briefelybriefly note it vpon the first conclusion: hée aunsweareth another conclusion, that no power vppon …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.