Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12465 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

grosselygrossly

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

Puritas changed it: 978 times in 511 works
Consistency: 99.0% (978 of 987)
Reach if approved: ~1,037 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: grossly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 987 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (978 changes in 511 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 978)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… false reports doe impaire his brothers credit, he doth hurt him, and sinneth more grosselygrossly & more grieuously, than if he had taken away his lands or his liuing, his …
With rule
… false reports doe impaire his brothers credit, he doth hurt him, and sinneth more grosselygrossly & more grieuously, than if he had taken away his lands or his liuing, his …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 261 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reall presence, and many carnall Protestants, in their contempt of the ordinary means, are grosselygrossly mistaken in this point. Therefore, the faithfull professing the comfort they tooke in the …
With rule
… reall presence, and many carnall Protestants, in their contempt of the ordinary means, are grosselygrossly mistaken in this point. Therefore, the faithfull professing the comfort they tooke in the …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… at this day, whereby, finding themſelues not able to keepe the laity-wholly and groſſelygrossly ignorant, as informer times, they cunningly indeauour ſo to lead them out of the …
With rule
… at this day, whereby, finding themſelues not able to keepe the laity-wholly and groſſelygrossly ignorant, as informer times, they cunningly indeauour ſo to lead them out of the …
Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
… themſelves in their places, toward the Church of Corinth, which became very openly and groſſelygrossly wicked, foreign, but ſpecially amongſt you. They had declared ſincerity and uprightneſſe in their miniſtry …
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… themſelves in their places, toward the Church of Corinth, which became very openly and groſſelygrossly wicked, foreign, but ſpecially amongſt you. They had declared ſincerity and uprightneſſe in their miniſtry …
Nicholas Lockyer · A Divine Discovery of Sincerity · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
Thus haue I neighbours, grosselygrossly but faythfully, rudely but truely proued to you by the īfallible verite of Gods …
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Thus haue I neighbours, grosselygrossly but faythfully, rudely but truely proued to you by the īfallible verite of Gods …
Thomas Becon · A Pleasant New Nosegay · Open in the reader
Printed
… faith unfained, yes certainly, and theſe be the men, who as I conceive moſt groſſelygrossly deceive themſelves. For wee are to know that the outward opus operatum the externall …
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… faith unfained, yes certainly, and theſe be the men, who as I conceive moſt groſſelygrossly deceive themſelves. For wee are to know that the outward opus operatum the externall …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 100 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Wine, but onely the outward shew of the same it is, which most grosselygrossly, and wickedly, they would make to hold proportion with the body and bloud of …
With rule
… and Wine, but onely the outward shew of the same it is, which most grosselygrossly, and wickedly, they would make to hold proportion with the body and bloud of …
John Frewen · Choice Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion · p. 285 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and neere then, both long since and lately, it is more then notorious, how grosselygrossly and grievously the Ceremonies have been polluted with Idolatry and Superstition.
With rule
… and neere then, both long since and lately, it is more then notorious, how grosselygrossly and grievously the Ceremonies have been polluted with Idolatry and Superstition.
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 31 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

8 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Plea for Pauls Presbytery in Scotland A57976

Printed
… for then he himselfe useth the Keyes by censuring, Pope-like, without the Church. 3. GrosselyGrossly ignorant are to be censured by the Church, and debarred: But it may perhaps …
With rule
… for then he himselfe useth the Keyes by censuring, Pope-like, without the Church. 3. GrosselyGrossly ignorant are to be censured by the Church, and debarred: But it may perhaps …
Samuel Rutherford · Plea for Pauls Presbytery in Scotland · p. 185 · Open in the reader

Saul and David Compared A61680

Printed
… trie, 1 Joh. 4, 1. as well as Works or Actions. And as ſome men are more GroſſelyGrossly Carnal, 1 Cor. 3. 3; ſo ſome are Animal, or more Refined, 1 Cor. 2. 14; both which do yet …
With rule
… trie, 1 Joh. 4, 1. as well as Works or Actions. And as ſome men are more GroſſelyGrossly Carnal, 1 Cor. 3. 3; ſo ſome are Animal, or more Refined, 1 Cor. 2. 14; both which do yet …
Benjamin Stonham · Saul and David Compared · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
If any man whatever, be either GroſſelyGrossly prophane, ſo as not to Call upon God; or Morally Vicious, viz. a Curſer …
With rule
If any man whatever, be either GroſſelyGrossly prophane, ſo as not to Call upon God; or Morally Vicious, viz. a Curſer …
Benjamin Stonham · Saul and David Compared · p. 185 · Open in the reader
Printed
… General and Viſible, they then may expect to be ſought after, by their moſt GroſſelyGrossly Antichriſtian adverſaries, who have been ſometimes Favourable to them, in the time of their …
With rule
… General and Viſible, they then may expect to be ſought after, by their moſt GroſſelyGrossly Antichriſtian adverſaries, who have been ſometimes Favourable to them, in the time of their …
Benjamin Stonham · Saul and David Compared · p. 330 · Open in the reader
Printed
He very GroſſelyGrossly fell in that matter of Ʋriah; wherein the ſpeech of Eliphaz might be applyed …
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He very GroſſelyGrossly fell in that matter of Ʋriah; wherein the ſpeech of Eliphaz might be applyed …
Benjamin Stonham · Saul and David Compared · p. 355 · Open in the reader

The True Christians Love of the Unseen Christ A64995

Printed
… in the Heart. Now let us separate all these forementioned persons, from the rest; GrosselyGrossly Ignorant persons, grosselygrossly erroneous persons, grosselygrossly wicked persons, the Profane, the Persecutors of Gods …
With rule
… in the Heart. Now let us separate all these forementioned persons, from the rest; GrosselyGrossly Ignorant persons, grosselygrossly erroneous persons, grosselygrossly wicked persons, the Profane, the Persecutors of Gods …
Thomas Vincent · The True Christians Love of the Unseen Christ · p. 29 · Open in the reader

The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened A71078

Printed
… in the little Horn) is therefore Repreſented by the other Beaſts, which were more GroſſelyGrossly wicked, Dan. 7. 11, 12. And the Aſſyrian Party (which is the ſame) are therefore ſaid to …
With rule
… in the little Horn) is therefore Repreſented by the other Beaſts, which were more GroſſelyGrossly wicked, Dan. 7. 11, 12. And the Aſſyrian Party (which is the ſame) are therefore ſaid to …
Benjamin Stonham · The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened · p. 233 · Open in the reader

The Covenant Sealed A76812

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GroſſelyGrossly ignorant ones in an incapacity of benefit by the Lords Supper Page. 230
With rule
GroſſelyGrossly ignorant ones in an incapacity of benefit by the Lords Supper Page. 230
Thomas Blake · The Covenant Sealed · Open in the reader