Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11932 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

playnelyplainly

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

Puritas changed it: 671 times in 196 works
Consistency: 99.8% (671 of 672)
Reach if approved: ~707 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: plainly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 673 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (671 changes in 196 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 671)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… I wyll speake no more wyth you by Prouerbes: but I wyll openly and playnelyplainly shewe vnto you of my Father. For whenne the Holye Ghoste commeth, and kyndleth …
With rule
… I wyll speake no more wyth you by Prouerbes: but I wyll openly and playnelyplainly shewe vnto you of my Father. For whenne the Holye Ghoste commeth, and kyndleth …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 258 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the common people, and others alſo of al eſtates, doe vnderſtande cleerely and playnelyplainly inough, the goodly ſhewes of ſo many execrable wickedneſſes, of which all that Popiſh …
With rule
… of the common people, and others alſo of al eſtates, doe vnderſtande cleerely and playnelyplainly inough, the goodly ſhewes of ſo many execrable wickedneſſes, of which all that Popiſh …
Philipp Melanchthon · Of Two Popish Monsters – A Popish Ass and a Monkish Calf · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Churche of God, fooliſh in your ſight, but with Peter himſelfe. For he playnelyplainly and openly (as thou requireſt) ſayth, that Ieſus was takē & crucified of the Iewes …
With rule
… the Churche of God, fooliſh in your ſight, but with Peter himſelfe. For he playnelyplainly and openly (as thou requireſt) ſayth, that Ieſus was takē & crucified of the Iewes …
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 71 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Saint Luke, in his Gospell, cap. 22. and Act. 22. You saye, we will not speake playnelyplainly, lest the worlde shoulde heare, that Timothie was made Priest, or Bishop, euen as …
With rule
… Saint Luke, in his Gospell, cap. 22. and Act. 22. You saye, we will not speake playnelyplainly, lest the worlde shoulde heare, that Timothie was made Priest, or Bishop, euen as …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 167 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for no reuelations from the heauens to teache vs our duety, it being ſo playnelyplainly ſet before our eyes in his worde. And if in this caſe conſiderately begone …
With rule
… for no reuelations from the heauens to teache vs our duety, it being ſo playnelyplainly ſet before our eyes in his worde. And if in this caſe conſiderately begone …
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 212 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in humblenes: not ſhooke, but ſetled eche ſtate: not vaunted hee was kinge, but playnelyplainly profeſſed, he was once an earthen potter. Of whom thus writeth Auſon…us.
With rule
… in humblenes: not ſhooke, but ſetled eche ſtate: not vaunted hee was kinge, but playnelyplainly profeſſed, he was once an earthen potter. Of whom thus writeth Auſon…us.
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
… as they say communly Qui vadit plaue, vadit saue▪ that is. He that walketh playnelyplainly, walketh safelye. As the Iewes were styfnecked, and were euer ready to walke inordinatelye …
With rule
… as they say communly Qui vadit plaue, vadit saue▪ that is. He that walketh playnelyplainly, walketh safelye. As the Iewes were styfnecked, and were euer ready to walke inordinatelye …
Hugh Latimer · First Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
Lyke (that I may declare it playnelyplainly) as a maryed man, or a brydegrome may, wil diſtribute many maner of offices …
With rule
Lyke (that I may declare it playnelyplainly) as a maryed man, or a brydegrome may, wil diſtribute many maner of offices …
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 (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Mystery of Mankind A06193

Printed
PlaynelyPlainly thus, Euclides, Archimides, or some such like skilfull Mathematitian, first seeth, and knoweth the …
With rule
PlaynelyPlainly thus, Euclides, Archimides, or some such like skilfull Mathematitian, first seeth, and knoweth the …
William Loe · The Mystery of Mankind · p. 132 · Open in the reader