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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #14217 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

chearfullcheerful

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

Puritas changed it
646 times in 327 works
Consistency
97.5% (646 of 662)
Reach if approved
~696 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: cheerful
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
662 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (646 changes in 327 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 646)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … duty required in thanksgiving. For as the Lord loveth a chearfullcheerful giver, so a chearfullcheerful thanksgiver: and as foreign, thanks, cometh of foreign, which is, to rejoyce, so foreign must be foreign, with …
    With rule
    … duty required in thanksgiving. For as the Lord loveth a chearfullcheerful giver, so a chearfullcheerful thanksgiver: and as foreign, thanks, cometh of foreign, which is, to rejoyce, so foreign must be foreign, with …

    George Downame · A Godly and Learned Treatise of Prayer · p. 210 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … they ſhould expreſſe their dependance upon God, and ſubmiſſion unto God, in willing and chearfullcheerful parting with comforts and friends, when God will have it ſo, they can no …
    With rule
    … they ſhould expreſſe their dependance upon God, and ſubmiſſion unto God, in willing and chearfullcheerful parting with comforts and friends, when God will have it ſo, they can no …

    John Angier · A Help to Better Hearts for Better Times · p. 188 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … for ye shall mourne and weepe, Luke 6. 25. 2 And you, Beloued, Would you haue a chearfullcheerful heart, and be comfortable euen in affliction, in the time of your sicknesse, and …
    With rule
    … for ye shall mourne and weepe, Luke 6. 25. 2 And you, Beloued, Would you haue a chearfullcheerful heart, and be comfortable euen in affliction, in the time of your sicknesse, and …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 438 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … is it ſatiſfyed by the externall deede dooyng, vnles they be done with a chearfullcheerful hart willingly, and with all thy affection. Inſomuch as it dooth reproue and rebuke …
    With rule
    … is it ſatiſfyed by the externall deede dooyng, vnles they be done with a chearfullcheerful hart willingly, and with all thy affection. Inſomuch as it dooth reproue and rebuke …

    Martin Luther · Preface to the Epistle of Romans · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ſetled againſt the diſcouragements, which might ſtand vp in thy way. And therefore be chearfullcheerful and of good courage, although there are many things which may, one time or …
    With rule
    … ſetled againſt the diſcouragements, which might ſtand vp in thy way. And therefore be chearfullcheerful and of good courage, although there are many things which may, one time or …

    Richard Rogers · Seven Treatises · p. 348 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … true of all other duties, God loueth a chearfullcheerful hearer, a chearfullcheerful prayer, a chearfullcheerful receiuer; and of Chriſt it was ſaid, That it was meat and drinke vnto …
    With rule
    … true of all other duties, God loueth a chearfullcheerful hearer, a chearfullcheerful prayer, a chearfullcheerful receiuer; and of Chriſt it was ſaid, That it was meat and drinke vnto …

    Samuel Smith · The Ethiopian Eunuchs Conversion · p. 185 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the Hebrewes further note, that the spirit of God commeth upon those that are chearfullcheerful: for which cause they say most of the Prophets were young men, who are …
    With rule
    … the Hebrewes further note, that the spirit of God commeth upon those that are chearfullcheerful: for which cause they say most of the Prophets were young men, who are …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 366 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … holy dayes, or festivall solemnities, consisting of Hookers three elements, praises set foorth with chearfullcheerful alacritie of minde, delite expressed by charitable largenesse, more then commoun bountie; and sequestration …
    With rule
    … holy dayes, or festivall solemnities, consisting of Hookers three elements, praises set foorth with chearfullcheerful alacritie of minde, delite expressed by charitable largenesse, more then commoun bountie; and sequestration …

    David Calderwood · The Reexamination of Two of the Articles Abridged · p. 55 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (16)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 11 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Appeal of Injured Innocence A40651

  • Printed
    2. ChearfullCheerful in countenance. Page. 119. paragraph. 84.
    With rule
    2. ChearfullCheerful in countenance. Page. 119. paragraph. 84.

    Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · p. 67 · Open in the reader

Sincerity and Delight in the Service of God A53273

  • Printed
    … obedience, without which it is of no value with the Lord: God loves a ChearfullCheerful giver, 2 Corinthians 4. 7. not a dull, heartless, but a lively, chearfullcheerful servant, that will do …
    With rule
    … obedience, without which it is of no value with the Lord: God loves a ChearfullCheerful giver, 2 Corinthians 4. 7. not a dull, heartless, but a lively, chearfullcheerful servant, that will do …

    Urian Oakes · Sincerity and Delight in the Service of God · p. 16 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Psalm 130 A53721

  • Printed
    … hearts, and pressing after universal Renovation of mind and life, as may make them ChearfullCheerful in them, as may give Love and Delight in the pursuit of what they …
    With rule
    … hearts, and pressing after universal Renovation of mind and life, as may make them ChearfullCheerful in them, as may give Love and Delight in the pursuit of what they …

    John Owen · Exposition of Psalm 130 · p. 291 · Open in the reader

Saul and David Compared A61680

  • Printed
    … Dutifull, and the Honour of Acceptance. He very well knoweth, that God loveth a ChearfullCheerful giver, 2 Cor. 9. 7; and that he diſliketh Dulneſs, by his forbidding Iſrael to feed upon …
    With rule
    … Dutifull, and the Honour of Acceptance. He very well knoweth, that God loveth a ChearfullCheerful giver, 2 Cor. 9. 7; and that he diſliketh Dulneſs, by his forbidding Iſrael to feed upon …

    Benjamin Stonham · Saul and David Compared · p. 108 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the law of God, after the inward man, Rom. 7. 22; ſtirring up others to be ChearfullCheerful Givers, 2 Cor. 9. 7; and bidding Church members ſo to walk, as that their Officers might …
    With rule
    … the law of God, after the inward man, Rom. 7. 22; ſtirring up others to be ChearfullCheerful Givers, 2 Cor. 9. 7; and bidding Church members ſo to walk, as that their Officers might …

    Benjamin Stonham · Saul and David Compared · p. 112 · Open in the reader