Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11941 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sharpelysharply

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

Puritas changed it: 780 times in 373 works
Consistency: 100% (780 of 780)
Reach if approved: ~820 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sharply
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 780 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (780 changes in 373 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 780)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… At his comming, & when hee ſhall put on theſe garments of rebuke, hee will ſharpelysharply reproue the world, with a fire burning before him? At mignight ſhal a cry …
With rule
… At his comming, & when hee ſhall put on theſe garments of rebuke, hee will ſharpelysharply reproue the world, with a fire burning before him? At mignight ſhal a cry …
Robert Horne · Life and Death · p. 364 · Open in the reader
Printed
… suffer punishement, for the offenses of their fathers. Against whom y^e Prophet speaketh most sharpelysharply affirming that the soule which did sinne shoulde die: in this praising gods iustice …
With rule
… suffer punishement, for the offenses of their fathers. Against whom y^e Prophet speaketh most sharpelysharply affirming that the soule which did sinne shoulde die: in this praising gods iustice …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 278 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and gentlie, euen as God hath dealt with you: not roughly, not ragyngly and ſharpelysharply, but mieldely and Charitablie. Dooe not with churliſhe ſterneſſe terrifie and ſo ſpoile theim …
With rule
… and gentlie, euen as God hath dealt with you: not roughly, not ragyngly and ſharpelysharply, but mieldely and Charitablie. Dooe not with churliſhe ſterneſſe terrifie and ſo ſpoile theim …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 172 · Open in the reader
Printed
And to this they would adde the Councel of Basil, where was plainely and sharpelysharply ordeined, That …he Court of Rome shall not take any money for any Dispensations …
With rule
And to this they would adde the Councel of Basil, where was plainely and sharpelysharply ordeined, That …he Court of Rome shall not take any money for any Dispensations …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · Open in the reader
Printed
… meanes, which may rouze vp the Conſcience from its ſleepineſſe, as hearing of ſinne ſharpelysharply rebuked, and threats denounced. Fifthly, from earthly contentment in pleaſure, eaſe, profit, aduancement, and …
With rule
… meanes, which may rouze vp the Conſcience from its ſleepineſſe, as hearing of ſinne ſharpelysharply rebuked, and threats denounced. Fifthly, from earthly contentment in pleaſure, eaſe, profit, aduancement, and …
Richard Bernard · Christian See to Thy Conscience · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
… lesse regarded, and all thynges are so full of presumptions, that he is more sharpelysharply reproued, whiche hath touched the yearth with his bare foote, in tyme of his …
With rule
… lesse regarded, and all thynges are so full of presumptions, that he is more sharpelysharply reproued, whiche hath touched the yearth with his bare foote, in tyme of his …
William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · Open in the reader
Printed
… They (no doubt) beeing met together, called the man before them, and did most sharpelysharply rebuke him and chide with him, and threatned that they would not onely debarre …
With rule
… They (no doubt) beeing met together, called the man before them, and did most sharpelysharply rebuke him and chide with him, and threatned that they would not onely debarre …
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 186 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Seeing that concerning temporall threats and puniſhments God dealeth as ſharpelysharply, or rather more ſharpelysharply with his children, then any other, why ſhould they not dread his Fatherly correction …
With rule
… Seeing that concerning temporall threats and puniſhments God dealeth as ſharpelysharply, or rather more ſharpelysharply with his children, then any other, why ſhould they not dread his Fatherly correction …
John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 67 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.