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worthelyworthily

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

Puritas changed it
637 times in 173 works
Consistency
98.3% (637 of 648)
Reach if approved
~681 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: worthily
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
648 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (637 changes in 173 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 637)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … in y• time of Christes passion, & confessed that both he & hys felowe thefe suffered worthelyworthily, euen according to their desertes, and in the middes of his troubled conscience, he …
    With rule
    … in y• time of Christes passion, & confessed that both he & hys felowe thefe suffered worthelyworthily, euen according to their desertes, and in the middes of his troubled conscience, he …

    Thomas Becon · The Castle of Comfort · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … a moste wretched sinner, whiche doo cō mit wickedli, and doo suffre ther fore worthelyworthily, whiche doo sin cō tinualli, & suffre thy scourge ther fore daily. If thou take …
    With rule
    … a moste wretched sinner, whiche doo cō mit wickedli, and doo suffre ther fore worthelyworthily, whiche doo sin cō tinualli, & suffre thy scourge ther fore daily. If thou take …

    Thomas Becon · The Pomander of Prayer · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … if I ſhould diſcloſe doubtful matters, and which I could not warrant, to deſerue worthelyworthily …, and ſtaine of credit. Attend therefore to this briefe diſcourſ… of Ecolampadius life, from …
    With rule
    … if I ſhould diſcloſe doubtful matters, and which I could not warrant, to deſerue worthelyworthily …, and ſtaine of credit. Attend therefore to this briefe diſcourſ… of Ecolampadius life, from …

    Philipp Melanchthon · History of Three Renowned Reformers · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … credited in a man off so great wyt / lernyng / and excellency / as Tertullian is worthelyworthily / esteamed euer to haue bene.
    With rule
    … credited in a man off so great wyt / lernyng / and excellency / as Tertullian is worthelyworthily / esteamed euer to haue bene.

    Nicholas Ridley · Conferences Between Two Fathers and Martyrs · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … sustene the Preistis and Leuitis in the auld Testament, and that thir pepill wer worthelyworthily rebukit of the Prophet for withhalding of thame, bot quhat belangis that to vs …
    With rule
    … sustene the Preistis and Leuitis in the auld Testament, and that thir pepill wer worthelyworthily rebukit of the Prophet for withhalding of thame, bot quhat belangis that to vs …

    David Fergusson · Sermon Preached 13 January 1571 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of that firy doungion: that the vessels of grace and the redemed flocke, may worthelyworthily sing both mercy & iudgement to our gracious God, who in his angre forgetteth not …
    With rule
    … of that firy doungion: that the vessels of grace and the redemed flocke, may worthelyworthily sing both mercy & iudgement to our gracious God, who in his angre forgetteth not …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 180 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … that I also as the feruaunt of God, may be foūde in hys kyngdome, worthelyworthily to folow their fotesteppes, as ded Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, as ded Iosephe, Esaias …
    With rule
    … that I also as the feruaunt of God, may be foūde in hys kyngdome, worthelyworthily to folow their fotesteppes, as ded Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob, as ded Iosephe, Esaias …

    John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · p. cxxiii · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … I require you in gods behalfe leaue your wickednesse, that ye maye receiue it worthelyworthily according to his institution. For this supper is ordeyned, as I told you before …
    With rule
    … I require you in gods behalfe leaue your wickednesse, that ye maye receiue it worthelyworthily according to his institution. For this supper is ordeyned, as I told you before …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

9 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Prelections Upon Revelation A01320

  • Printed
    … her iolity, they filled the whole world with pride, couetousnesse, lecherie, crueltie, and Idolatrie. WorthelyWorthily therefore they suffer the punishmentes of so great enormities, if they walke destitute and …
    With rule
    … her iolity, they filled the whole world with pride, couetousnesse, lecherie, crueltie, and Idolatrie. WorthelyWorthily therefore they suffer the punishmentes of so great enormities, if they walke destitute and …

    William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … length god hath taken vengeaunce on her wickednesse, for the reuenge of the sainctes. WorthelyWorthily therefore ought the sainctes to reioyce, as many as do either abhorre her crueltie …
    With rule
    … length god hath taken vengeaunce on her wickednesse, for the reuenge of the sainctes. WorthelyWorthily therefore ought the sainctes to reioyce, as many as do either abhorre her crueltie …

    William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · p. 122 · Open in the reader

Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester A01752

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    … and all the wonderfull plages wroughte, whiche are terrible vnto vs, vnto thys day. WorthelyWorthily therfore, was this called a rodde, for it was the chaſteſyng rodde of God …
    With rule
    … and all the wonderfull plages wroughte, whiche are terrible vnto vs, vnto thys day. WorthelyWorthily therfore, was this called a rodde, for it was the chaſteſyng rodde of God …

    Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · Open in the reader

The Nobles A03850

  • Printed
    WorthelyWorthily ſayde Euripides a Poete in deede, but herein true.
    With rule
    WorthelyWorthily ſayde Euripides a Poete in deede, but herein true.

    Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

Twenty-Seven Sermons A05143

  • Printed
    WorthelyWorthily therfore the Prophet Dauid numbreth you amongst them that say in theyr hartes there …
    With rule
    WorthelyWorthily therfore the Prophet Dauid numbreth you amongst them that say in theyr hartes there …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader

Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent A06500

  • Printed
    … debate with their wiues, or else they forsake both wiues & families and flie away, WorthelyWorthily, worthelyworthily, iustly and by the iust iudgement of God thus commeth it to passe …
    With rule
    … debate with their wiues, or else they forsake both wiues & families and flie away, WorthelyWorthily, worthelyworthily, iustly and by the iust iudgement of God thus commeth it to passe …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 125 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to witte, in those things that are vnder their power? which are mentioned Gen. 2. WorthelyWorthily therefore are they deceiued, and crye out that all things are gouerned by fortune …
    With rule
    … to witte, in those things that are vnder their power? which are mentioned Gen. 2. WorthelyWorthily therefore are they deceiued, and crye out that all things are gouerned by fortune …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 143 · Open in the reader

Confutation of the Popes Bull A17167

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    … of kinges to abolish and banish, yea and to punish noysome deceites and deceyuers. WorthelyWorthily therfore haue the Kinges of England abolished the masse, neyther haue they trespassed at …
    With rule
    … of kinges to abolish and banish, yea and to punish noysome deceites and deceyuers. WorthelyWorthily therfore haue the Kinges of England abolished the masse, neyther haue they trespassed at …

    Henrich Bullinger · Confutation of the Popes Bull · p. 50 · Open in the reader

An Exposition of the Lords Prayer B11845

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    … But God by them made the stubborne and harde hearte of Pharaoh to yeelde. WorthelyWorthily therefore wee yeelde vnto him the power and might, who because he doth but …
    With rule
    … But God by them made the stubborne and harde hearte of Pharaoh to yeelde. WorthelyWorthily therefore wee yeelde vnto him the power and might, who because he doth but …

    Francis Bunny · An Exposition of the Lords Prayer · p. 210 · Open in the reader