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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11969 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cheerefullycheerfully

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

Puritas changed it
1,082 times in 459 works
Consistency
99.3% (1,082 of 1,089)
Reach if approved
~1,144 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: cheerfully
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,089 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,082 changes in 459 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,082)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … already to be rauiſhed in her heauenly viſions, and bleſſed contemplations: and ſo, he cheerefullycheerfully flitting from vs, left vs ſadly looking on.
    With rule
    … already to be rauiſhed in her heauenly viſions, and bleſſed contemplations: and ſo, he cheerefullycheerfully flitting from vs, left vs ſadly looking on.

    John Gaule · A Defiance to Death · p. 42 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … thankes to God, and to provoke them to doe it the more readily and cheerefullycheerfully. When you are about to render ſolemne praiſe to God, doe as this Prophet …
    With rule
    … thankes to God, and to provoke them to doe it the more readily and cheerefullycheerfully. When you are about to render ſolemne praiſe to God, doe as this Prophet …

    William Gouge · The Saints Sacrifice · p. 228 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … that ſo I may neuer bee daunted at whatſoeuer torment, but paſſe couragiouſly and cheerefullycheerfully through the ſame to life and glory euerlaſting in the might and merit of …
    With rule
    … that ſo I may neuer bee daunted at whatſoeuer torment, but paſſe couragiouſly and cheerefullycheerfully through the ſame to life and glory euerlaſting in the might and merit of …

    Henry Greenwood · The Prisoners Prayers · p. 146 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … guide, ſhe muſt follow, he muſt admoniſh, ſhe muſt hearken; he muſt allow her cheerefullycheerfully out of his eſtate, ſhe muſt conforme her ſelfe contentedly to his eſtate. He …
    With rule
    … guide, ſhe muſt follow, he muſt admoniſh, ſhe muſt hearken; he muſt allow her cheerefullycheerfully out of his eſtate, ſhe muſt conforme her ſelfe contentedly to his eſtate. He …

    Samuel Hieron · The Bridegroom · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … makes knowne himſelfe to us, and would carry us on in a Chriſtian courſe cheerefullycheerfully, we are playing with trifles, and grow careleſſe, and cold, and worldly, and remiſſe …
    With rule
    … makes knowne himſelfe to us, and would carry us on in a Chriſtian courſe cheerefullycheerfully, we are playing with trifles, and grow careleſſe, and cold, and worldly, and remiſſe …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Implantation into the Natural Olive · p. 150 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of complement: This knowledge of our hope is the ſpurre of action; men worke cheerefullycheerfully when they know an ample reward abideth them: It is a ground of all …
    With rule
    … of complement: This knowledge of our hope is the ſpurre of action; men worke cheerefullycheerfully when they know an ample reward abideth them: It is a ground of all …

    Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Ephesians 1 · p. 338 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … being iuſtified firſt by Faith, it behooueth vs to worke all things fréely and cheerefullycheerfully for our neighbours ſake.
    With rule
    … being iuſtified firſt by Faith, it behooueth vs to worke all things fréely and cheerefullycheerfully for our neighbours ſake.

    Martin Luther · The Liberty of a Christian · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … losse, contempt, reproaches, and scoffes of men should never trouble me. Oh then how cheerefullycheerfully could I wade through any griefe, any tentation? But woe is mee, I feele …
    With rule
    … losse, contempt, reproaches, and scoffes of men should never trouble me. Oh then how cheerefullycheerfully could I wade through any griefe, any tentation? But woe is mee, I feele …

    Phineas Fletcher · Joy in Tribulation · p. 214 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

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

The Third Part from John Baptists Nativity A16557

  • Printed
    4 For quomodo, the disciples of Antiochia bestowed their almes cheerefullycheerfully and carefully. CheerefullyCheerfully, for that euery man according to his ability purposed to send succour, it was …
    With rule
    4 For quomodo, the disciples of Antiochia bestowed their almes cheerefullycheerfully and carefully. CheerefullyCheerfully, for that euery man according to his ability purposed to send succour, it was …

    John Boys · The Third Part from John Baptists Nativity · p. 60 · Open in the reader

Gods Free Mercy to England A32016

  • Printed
    … Let us serve God with our health, wealth, and parts; Let us serve him, CheerefullyCheerfully, liberally, thankefully, fruitfully, lest God send upon us that curse threatned, Deut. 28. 47, 48. Because thou …
    With rule
    … Let us serve God with our health, wealth, and parts; Let us serve him, CheerefullyCheerfully, liberally, thankefully, fruitfully, lest God send upon us that curse threatned, Deut. 28. 47, 48. Because thou …

    Edmund Calamy · Gods Free Mercy to England · p. 15 · Open in the reader