Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11613 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

beggerlybeggarly

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

Puritas changed it: 922 times in 526 works
Consistency: 97.6% (922 of 944)
Reach if approved: ~992 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: beggarly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 944 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (922 changes in 526 works, 97.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 922)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Thirdly, you beg an Argument from your selfe, drawne from a beggerlybeggarly fallacy, called Petitio principij, or begging your maine question. You say, that my former …
With rule
Thirdly, you beg an Argument from your selfe, drawne from a beggerlybeggarly fallacy, called Petitio principij, or begging your maine question. You say, that my former …
Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 109 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a man is rich, and in honour now; and within a little while, base, & beggerlybeggarly, hauing little or nothing of his owne, to sustaine himselfe withall. Whereas, the honour …
With rule
… a man is rich, and in honour now; and within a little while, base, & beggerlybeggarly, hauing little or nothing of his owne, to sustaine himselfe withall. Whereas, the honour …
John Frewen · Choice Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion · p. 112 · Open in the reader
Printed
… infinite mercy, but seeke to satisfie the streightnes of his eternall iustice, by such beggerlybeggarly shiftes as these, which also he is so vncertaine whether they wil serue his …
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… infinite mercy, but seeke to satisfie the streightnes of his eternall iustice, by such beggerlybeggarly shiftes as these, which also he is so vncertaine whether they wil serue his …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… non valent. With what studious and artificiall cost is the body adorned, whiles the beggerlybeggarly soule lyes in totterd ragges! The flesh is pleased with the purest flowre of …
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… non valent. With what studious and artificiall cost is the body adorned, whiles the beggerlybeggarly soule lyes in totterd ragges! The flesh is pleased with the purest flowre of …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 322 · Open in the reader
Printed
Because hereby thou will establishe all these vnsemely beggerlybeggarly and wicked customes, that be vsed in the Papistrie, to the great contempt of …
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Because hereby thou will establishe all these vnsemely beggerlybeggarly and wicked customes, that be vsed in the Papistrie, to the great contempt of …
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · Open in the reader
Printed
… men that had beene knowne directly to deny, must needes haue seem'd a very beggerlybeggarly kind of disputing. All Infidels therefore deny the foundation of faith directly; by consequent …
With rule
… men that had beene knowne directly to deny, must needes haue seem'd a very beggerlybeggarly kind of disputing. All Infidels therefore deny the foundation of faith directly; by consequent …
Richard Hooker · Justification Works and How the Foundation of Faith is Overthrown · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… many of the meaner ſort are irreligious; beeing as miſerable in their ſoules, as beggerlybeggarly in their eſtates. So that (I ſay) no perſon, place, conditton, can compell the …
With rule
… many of the meaner ſort are irreligious; beeing as miſerable in their ſoules, as beggerlybeggarly in their eſtates. So that (I ſay) no perſon, place, conditton, can compell the …
Thomas Barnes · The Gales of Grace · p. 71 · Open in the reader
Printed
Thys repentaunce is not, patched, vnparfect, and beggerlybeggarly as the other, whiche repented the actuall ſynne, neither is it alſo vnſure, as …
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Thys repentaunce is not, patched, vnparfect, and beggerlybeggarly as the other, whiche repented the actuall ſynne, neither is it alſo vnſure, as …
Martin Luther · The Chief and Principal Articles of the Christian Faith · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (22)

10 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies A09002

Printed
… Secondly, our writers holde the Croſſe with other ceremonies of the Papiſts, beggerlybeggarly ceremonies. BeggerlyBeggarly, that is wanting power to entic he with grace ſpirituall. And when Saunders obiecteth …
With rule
… Secondly, our writers holde the Croſſe with other ceremonies of the Papiſts, beggerlybeggarly ceremonies. BeggerlyBeggarly, that is wanting power to entic he with grace ſpirituall. And when Saunders obiecteth …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 137 · Open in the reader

An Exposition of Pauls Epistles A35951

Printed
BeggerlyBeggarly] Argum. 9. Those Legal Ceremonies, the yoak whereof now yee affect, although they had their …
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BeggerlyBeggarly] Argum. 9. Those Legal Ceremonies, the yoak whereof now yee affect, although they had their …
David Dickson · An Exposition of Pauls Epistles · p. 101 · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

Printed
… indeed if she had not been Hawis the Hardy, she had been Hawis the BeggerlyBeggarly. She had four Uncles, her Fathers Brethren, Lhewelyn, Iohn, Griffith Vachan, and David, which …
With rule
… indeed if she had not been Hawis the Hardy, she had been Hawis the BeggerlyBeggarly. She had four Uncles, her Fathers Brethren, Lhewelyn, Iohn, Griffith Vachan, and David, which …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 47 · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles Part 3 A41681

Printed
… that they were al of terrene extract, rudiments of this world, or, as Gal. 4.9. BeggerlyBeggarly elements, deſcended from Tradition, not from Chriſt, as it follows: foreign, and not according to …
With rule
… that they were al of terrene extract, rudiments of this world, or, as Gal. 4.9. BeggerlyBeggarly elements, deſcended from Tradition, not from Chriſt, as it follows: foreign, and not according to …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 3 · p. 164 · Open in the reader

Annotations Upon the New Testament A50050

Printed
BeggerlyBeggarly] Because they have no consolation, or salvation in them. Pareus.
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BeggerlyBeggarly] Because they have no consolation, or salvation in them. Pareus.
Edward Leigh · Annotations Upon the New Testament · p. 271 · Open in the reader

The Rise Race and Royalty of the Kingdom of God A61474

Printed
… or, are made to know by God) how turn ye again to weak and BeggerlyBeggarly Elements, to which ye desire again to be in Bondage.
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… or, are made to know by God) how turn ye again to weak and BeggerlyBeggarly Elements, to which ye desire again to be in Bondage.
Peter Sterry · The Rise Race and Royalty of the Kingdom of God · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Shadows only of Him. We know Him by Worldly Principles, which are Dark, and BeggerlyBeggarly.
With rule
… Shadows only of Him. We know Him by Worldly Principles, which are Dark, and BeggerlyBeggarly.
Peter Sterry · The Rise Race and Royalty of the Kingdom of God · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
3. Forms are BeggerlyBeggarly Things. They cannot lay open before us the Unsearchable Riches of Christ.
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3. Forms are BeggerlyBeggarly Things. They cannot lay open before us the Unsearchable Riches of Christ.
Peter Sterry · The Rise Race and Royalty of the Kingdom of God · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… us, but in a very uncertain way, full of Fear, and Doubt. They are BeggerlyBeggarly, because they can convey to us very little of the Riches, Fulness, Greatness, Grace …
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… us, but in a very uncertain way, full of Fear, and Doubt. They are BeggerlyBeggarly, because they can convey to us very little of the Riches, Fulness, Greatness, Grace …
Peter Sterry · The Rise Race and Royalty of the Kingdom of God · p. 124 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

Printed
BeggerlyBeggarly]
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BeggerlyBeggarly]
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 50 · Open in the reader