Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12679 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

neerelynearly

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

Puritas changed it: 712 times in 360 works
Consistency: 100% (712 of 712)
Reach if approved: ~748 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: nearly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 712 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (712 changes in 360 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 712)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… erecte and aduaunce, and therefore fauour our diſtreſſe, wherevnto his owne honour is ſo neerelynearly ioyned. Nowe let vs pray, &c.
With rule
… erecte and aduaunce, and therefore fauour our diſtreſſe, wherevnto his owne honour is ſo neerelynearly ioyned. Nowe let vs pray, &c.
John Knewstubs · Lectures Upon Exodus 20 · p. 334 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his vaine and idle reaſons, to be fuller confuted of him whom it more neerelynearly concerneth, and whoſe credit is touched by him: Hence two neceſſarie concluſions doe ariſe …
With rule
… his vaine and idle reaſons, to be fuller confuted of him whom it more neerelynearly concerneth, and whoſe credit is touched by him: Hence two neceſſarie concluſions doe ariſe …
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 496 · Open in the reader
Printed
… It could not ſo properly reſpect any other, whoſe ofifce and profeſsion did ſo neerelynearly and naturally offer it ſelfe to patronize and protect ſo iuſt a matter of …
With rule
… It could not ſo properly reſpect any other, whoſe ofifce and profeſsion did ſo neerelynearly and naturally offer it ſelfe to patronize and protect ſo iuſt a matter of …
Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · Open in the reader
Printed
… to cover her, that is, to provide all thinges meete for a mate ſo neerelynearly joyned in full bleſsing to him, and thus according to their condition, to giue …
With rule
… to cover her, that is, to provide all thinges meete for a mate ſo neerelynearly joyned in full bleſsing to him, and thus according to their condition, to giue …
Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… generall Arguments. I will only touch vpon thoſe their deuices and imployments which more neerelynearly cōcerne vs in this Church and State, being their attractiues ad habendum and retentiues …
With rule
… generall Arguments. I will only touch vpon thoſe their deuices and imployments which more neerelynearly cōcerne vs in this Church and State, being their attractiues ad habendum and retentiues …
John Gee · Hold Fast · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… matters are vnited into one, and cloſely cemented together, yet are they but contigua, neerelynearly glued together. Therefore this Vnion is yet ſeparable.
With rule
… matters are vnited into one, and cloſely cemented together, yet are they but contigua, neerelynearly glued together. Therefore this Vnion is yet ſeparable.
Thomas Granger · A Looking-Glass for Christians · Open in the reader
Printed
… will not bee ſo profitable in the application, vnleſſe, we looke a little more neerelynearly into it, to finde out, what that ſpeciall point is, in reſpect whereof Faith …
With rule
… will not bee ſo profitable in the application, vnleſſe, we looke a little more neerelynearly into it, to finde out, what that ſpeciall point is, in reſpect whereof Faith …
Samuel Hieron · The Baptizing of the Eunuch · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… doubled, to betoken the important neceſſity of the duty injoyned, as which doth moſt neerelynearly concerne a Chriſtian.
With rule
… doubled, to betoken the important neceſſity of the duty injoyned, as which doth moſt neerelynearly concerne a Chriſtian.
Thomas Hooker · The Christians Two Chief Lessons · p. 202 · 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.