Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11554 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cleerlyclearly

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

Puritas changed it: 1,564 times in 667 works
Consistency: 99.4% (1,564 of 1,573)
Reach if approved: ~1,653 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: clearly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,573 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,564 changes in 667 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,564)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… muſt be true and cleere, and therefore the Sacrament of the Lords Supper muſt cleerlyclearly and plainly, and lively ſhew forth the Lords death, which is the principall object …
With rule
… muſt be true and cleere, and therefore the Sacrament of the Lords Supper muſt cleerlyclearly and plainly, and lively ſhew forth the Lords death, which is the principall object …
John Randall · Twenty-Three Sermons · p. 171 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all power of examination; which circumſtances of this Text, and other paſſages of Scripture cleerlyclearly affoord them. For, firſt, to whom belong thoſe other Preſcripts of praying, and praiſing …
With rule
… all power of examination; which circumſtances of this Text, and other paſſages of Scripture cleerlyclearly affoord them. For, firſt, to whom belong thoſe other Preſcripts of praying, and praiſing …
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 541 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ordaine Elders in everie Church. Out of which passages of Scripture his Majestie so cleerlyclearly and evidently evicted a superioritie in Bishops over Presbyters, jure divino, that as hee …
With rule
… ordaine Elders in everie Church. Out of which passages of Scripture his Majestie so cleerlyclearly and evidently evicted a superioritie in Bishops over Presbyters, jure divino, that as hee …
Daniel Featley · Learned Decisions · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… aduantage their side hath of them. Next he promiseth to shew the same more cleerlyclearly by running ouer those common euidences of Christian trueth, out of which he framed …
With rule
… aduantage their side hath of them. Next he promiseth to shew the same more cleerlyclearly by running ouer those common euidences of Christian trueth, out of which he framed …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… part of the sanctification is to be done, all is vnperfect. This is more cleerlyclearly set downe Numb. 19 11. 12. where mention is made of purifying the third day, and the …
With rule
… part of the sanctification is to be done, all is vnperfect. This is more cleerlyclearly set downe Numb. 19 11. 12. where mention is made of purifying the third day, and the …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 806 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Allen, Parſons, and other traiterous Papiſts, notwithſtanding Biſhop Iewel and Biſhop Bilſon haue moſt cleerlyclearly in their writings againſt the Papiſts detected the falſhood thereof. And ſeeing that the …
With rule
… Allen, Parſons, and other traiterous Papiſts, notwithſtanding Biſhop Iewel and Biſhop Bilſon haue moſt cleerlyclearly in their writings againſt the Papiſts detected the falſhood thereof. And ſeeing that the …
Henry Jacob · A Christian and Modest Offer · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… If the ſtomack be vvell, that neither fumes nor diſtillations trouble, the eye ſeeth cleerlyclearly: yet the eye doth not depend on the ſtomack, as the means of ſeeing …
With rule
… If the ſtomack be vvell, that neither fumes nor diſtillations trouble, the eye ſeeth cleerlyclearly: yet the eye doth not depend on the ſtomack, as the means of ſeeing …
Paul Baynes · The Spiritual Armor · p. 225 · Open in the reader
Printed
… holy Ghoſt. Therefore as things the ſame, may not bee made differing; ſo things cleerlyclearly diſtinguiſhed, are not to bee confounded; but yet to haue a right iudgement to …
With rule
… holy Ghoſt. Therefore as things the ſame, may not bee made differing; ſo things cleerlyclearly diſtinguiſhed, are not to bee confounded; but yet to haue a right iudgement to …
Richard Bernard · A Key of Knowledge to Open Revelation · p. 151 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Application of Redemption A44342

Printed
… Conditions attending upon it; or it appears in two things: We must see sin, 1. CleerlyClearly. 2. Convictingly, what it is in it self, and what it is to us, not …
With rule
… Conditions attending upon it; or it appears in two things: We must see sin, 1. CleerlyClearly. 2. Convictingly, what it is in it self, and what it is to us, not …
Thomas Hooker · The Application of Redemption · p. 52 · Open in the reader

Works Part 1 A52035

Printed
CleerlyClearly you wil find this, and very frequent in the Scripture, that all the world …
With rule
CleerlyClearly you wil find this, and very frequent in the Scripture, that all the world …
Stephen Marshall · Works Part 1 · p. 13 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

Printed
… in coming it came, to assure the entity, evidence, and truth herein. Annot. 1 Tim. 4. 1. CleerlyClearly, plainly, evidently, by name.
With rule
… in coming it came, to assure the entity, evidence, and truth herein. Annot. 1 Tim. 4. 1. CleerlyClearly, plainly, evidently, by name.
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 204 · Open in the reader
Printed
5. CleerlyClearly, manifestly, Psal. 37. 6.
With rule
5. CleerlyClearly, manifestly, Psal. 37. 6.
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 441 · Open in the reader

The Unsearchable Riches of Christ A77593

Printed
CleerlyClearly, As there are few worldly rich men to thoſe that are poore, ſo there …
With rule
CleerlyClearly, As there are few worldly rich men to thoſe that are poore, ſo there …
Thomas Brooks · The Unsearchable Riches of Christ · p. 265 · Open in the reader