Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #13796 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

neerlynearly

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

Puritas changed it: 632 times in 408 works
Consistency: 99.6% (632 of 634)
Reach if approved: ~666 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: nearly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 634 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (632 changes in 408 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 632)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… treatiſe following, but that which the Lord himſelfe from heauen, pronounceth to be ſo neerlynearly joined with the former points; as vpon the refuſall of the ſuite, you ſhal …
With rule
… treatiſe following, but that which the Lord himſelfe from heauen, pronounceth to be ſo neerlynearly joined with the former points; as vpon the refuſall of the ſuite, you ſhal …
John Penry · View of Public Wants and Disorders in Wales · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
This concernes this our Land and people very neerlynearly; Vſe 1 who in regard of the meanes, with Capernaum haue beene lift vp to …
With rule
This concernes this our Land and people very neerlynearly; Vſe 1 who in regard of the meanes, with Capernaum haue beene lift vp to …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Wild Vine · p. 269 · Open in the reader
Printed
… faith, and his confidence in God: and this is that that touched him so neerlynearly, while they upbraided him, where is thy God? Indeed they had some probability and …
With rule
… faith, and his confidence in God: and this is that that touched him so neerlynearly, while they upbraided him, where is thy God? Indeed they had some probability and …
Richard Sibbes · Evangelical Sacrifices · p. 218 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and the whore that rideth him, Rev. 17. though they differ, yet are they so neerlynearly conjoyned, that if one be maried to Christ, the other is also. But why …
With rule
… and the whore that rideth him, Rev. 17. though they differ, yet are they so neerlynearly conjoyned, that if one be maried to Christ, the other is also. But why …
Henry Ainsworth · A Reply to a Pretended Christians Plea for the Church of Rome · p. 103 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we are fleſh of his fleſh, and bone of his bones, and are more neerlynearly, and firmlie knit and vnited with him, than the members of our bodie are …
With rule
… we are fleſh of his fleſh, and bone of his bones, and are more neerlynearly, and firmlie knit and vnited with him, than the members of our bodie are …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · p. 791 · Open in the reader
Printed
… kinds. There is nothing found in the creature, saith he, whereby more fitly and neerlynearly life may be represented, then by blood, which is the seate of the soule …
With rule
… kinds. There is nothing found in the creature, saith he, whereby more fitly and neerlynearly life may be represented, then by blood, which is the seate of the soule …
Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 117 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his family, eſpecially ſon, or daughter, do grow outragious, hee thinkes his credit is neerlynearly touched and it is a matter which much concerns him to look unto. Even …
With rule
… his family, eſpecially ſon, or daughter, do grow outragious, hee thinkes his credit is neerlynearly touched and it is a matter which much concerns him to look unto. Even …
Adam Harsnett · A Cordial for the Afflicted · p. 181 · Open in the reader
Printed
… themſelues vvell enough, & euery little thing too much forvvardnes, before GOD touched them more neerlynearly.
With rule
… themſelues vvell enough, & euery little thing too much forvvardnes, before GOD touched them more neerlynearly.
Paul Baynes · The Spiritual Armor · p. 79 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

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