Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11970 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cleargieclergy

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

Puritas changed it: 754 times in 201 works
Consistency: 100% (754 of 754)
Reach if approved: ~792 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: clergy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 754 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (754 changes in 201 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 754)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and Crowne, with the applauſe and liking of al true hearted Engliſhmen, both Nobles, CleargieClergy and Commons; (as a due by right belonging vnto her) then began Sathan to …
With rule
… and Crowne, with the applauſe and liking of al true hearted Engliſhmen, both Nobles, CleargieClergy and Commons; (as a due by right belonging vnto her) then began Sathan to …
Francis Hastings · A Watch-Word to All Religious and True Hearted Englishmen · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… then that bee godlye mynded? I thinke S. Paule spake these wordes by the cleargieclergy men, that wil take vppon them the spirituall office of preaching, and yet meddle …
With rule
… then that bee godlye mynded? I thinke S. Paule spake these wordes by the cleargieclergy men, that wil take vppon them the spirituall office of preaching, and yet meddle …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… so much as in the opinion of M. Bridges and the rest of the cleargieclergy / Paul was deceiued Ephesians the 4.13. in saying that pastors and doctors were to cōtinue …
With rule
… so much as in the opinion of M. Bridges and the rest of the cleargieclergy / Paul was deceiued Ephesians the 4.13. in saying that pastors and doctors were to cōtinue …
Martin Marprelate · Read John Bridges · Open in the reader
Printed
… truſting his promiſe, vpon condition, that he ſhould come in all one with his CleargieClergy, and not giue their Towne to the French, opened the gates to let him …
With rule
… truſting his promiſe, vpon condition, that he ſhould come in all one with his CleargieClergy, and not giue their Towne to the French, opened the gates to let him …
Josias Nichols · The Plea of the Innocent · p. 174 · Open in the reader
Printed
… forbid: the lay man is Christ his seruant, as well as one of the CleargieClergy. And therefore, it is Gods will, that he should learne to know and vnderstand …
With rule
… forbid: the lay man is Christ his seruant, as well as one of the CleargieClergy. And therefore, it is Gods will, that he should learne to know and vnderstand …
William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his ſubiects would tel him, you muſt firſt begin with your ſelues, with your cleargieclergy, & your Sodome. They faſt & abſtain frō eating of fleſh a great part of the …
With rule
… his ſubiects would tel him, you muſt firſt begin with your ſelues, with your cleargieclergy, & your Sodome. They faſt & abſtain frō eating of fleſh a great part of the …
Theodore Beza · Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs · p. 376 · Open in the reader
Printed
… woulde he require to be enstalled in the highest place, as Iudge ouer the CleargieClergy? or would he take vpon him so much, as though it weee not possi …
With rule
… woulde he require to be enstalled in the highest place, as Iudge ouer the CleargieClergy? or would he take vpon him so much, as though it weee not possi …
John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the dead, let them be laide vp aside, in custody of one of the cleargieclergy, that once or twise in the yeare as time shall serue, they may be …
With rule
… the dead, let them be laide vp aside, in custody of one of the cleargieclergy, that once or twise in the yeare as time shall serue, they may be …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 256 · 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.