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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1829 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

abroadeabroad

A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.

Puritas changed it
1,242 times in 361 works
Consistency
99.8% (1,242 of 1,244)
Reach if approved
~1,307 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: abroad
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,244 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,242 changes in 361 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,242)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … fro, with many wandering cloudes & doubtfull vapoures, yet because it peepeth nowe and then abroadeabroad, because it glyttereth and shyneth somewhat, and endeuoureth by all meanes possible to expresse …
    With rule
    … fro, with many wandering cloudes & doubtfull vapoures, yet because it peepeth nowe and then abroadeabroad, because it glyttereth and shyneth somewhat, and endeuoureth by all meanes possible to expresse …

    John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … liue in the College among vnmarried men, that he should haue his stipende allowed abroadeabroad. For the manner of the see Apostolike was then, (as Gregory saith) whiche the …
    With rule
    … liue in the College among vnmarried men, that he should haue his stipende allowed abroadeabroad. For the manner of the see Apostolike was then, (as Gregory saith) whiche the …

    William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 90 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … for euer. As if he ſhould ſay, the more lie doth ſcatter and diſperſe abroadeabroad, the more God doth make his riches to abound, and giueth him all ſufficiencie …
    With rule
    … for euer. As if he ſhould ſay, the more lie doth ſcatter and diſperſe abroadeabroad, the more God doth make his riches to abound, and giueth him all ſufficiencie …

    George Gifford · Four Sermons · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … whilest they may be remedied, and so after be constrained to blaze them all abroadeabroad when they are remedilesse. But of this by the waye, because wee shall more …
    With rule
    … whilest they may be remedied, and so after be constrained to blaze them all abroadeabroad when they are remedilesse. But of this by the waye, because wee shall more …

    Richard Greenham · Comfort for All Those Afflicted in Conscience · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … theyr vnquencheable thyrst: It is not to be thought that they are verye Gentyll abroadeabroad or in the fardest partes of the realme / whan they vse soche furyouse feates …
    With rule
    … theyr vnquencheable thyrst: It is not to be thought that they are verye Gentyll abroadeabroad or in the fardest partes of the realme / whan they vse soche furyouse feates …

    John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · p. 9 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … moſt be witched themſelues, they then perſwade vnbeleeuers alſo that theſe wicked ſpirites flie abroadeabroad by vertue of their inchauntments, coniurations, characters, &c. So the common people being beſotted …
    With rule
    … moſt be witched themſelues, they then perſwade vnbeleeuers alſo that theſe wicked ſpirites flie abroadeabroad by vertue of their inchauntments, coniurations, characters, &c. So the common people being beſotted …

    Henry Holland · The Christian Exercise of Fasting · p. 186 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … faith, and faith ſheweth it ſelfe by workes. Hang a wet peece of linnen abroadeabroad in the ayre, and the faſter the winde dryeth it, the whiter it will …
    With rule
    … faith, and faith ſheweth it ſelfe by workes. Hang a wet peece of linnen abroadeabroad in the ayre, and the faſter the winde dryeth it, the whiter it will …

    Thomas Barnes · The Gales of Grace · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … alwayes of ſome hurte, never of any good to Chriſtian or heathen, firſt came abroadeabroad with great ſolemnitie, as it may be gathered by Herodotus. Afterwards from thoſe Lydians …
    With rule
    … alwayes of ſome hurte, never of any good to Chriſtian or heathen, firſt came abroadeabroad with great ſolemnitie, as it may be gathered by Herodotus. Afterwards from thoſe Lydians …

    Alexander Leighton · A Short Treatise Against Stage Plays · p. 6 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

Commentary Upon Micah A01754

  • Printed
    … hither ſaythe he by hys Prophete you charmers childrē, you aduouterous ſeede. Eſaye: lvii. AbroadeAbroad in all places of Englande wheras I haue taryed, haue I heard of wyſe …
    With rule
    … hither ſaythe he by hys Prophete you charmers childrē, you aduouterous ſeede. Eſaye: lvii. AbroadeAbroad in all places of Englande wheras I haue taryed, haue I heard of wyſe …

    Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader