Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11667 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

subtillsubtle

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

Puritas changed it: 1,300 times in 614 works
Consistency: 99.1% (1,300 of 1,311)
Reach if approved: ~1,377 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: subtle
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,311 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,300 changes in 614 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,300)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… mercy of God, and abased your owne merites, you come backe againe with a subtillsubtle compasse, to establish your owne free will, the worthinesse of your workes, and your …
With rule
… mercy of God, and abased your owne merites, you come backe againe with a subtillsubtle compasse, to establish your owne free will, the worthinesse of your workes, and your …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 261 · Open in the reader
Printed
… doe sucke; yet they expect no haruest from vs: this is their fruites. The subtillsubtle winds come puffing out of their cauernes, to make artificiall motions, wholesome ayres, and …
With rule
… doe sucke; yet they expect no haruest from vs: this is their fruites. The subtillsubtle winds come puffing out of their cauernes, to make artificiall motions, wholesome ayres, and …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… if we deſire not to be of the number of theſe) marke well the ſubtillsubtle ſleights, and pollicie of the Diuell, how he handeleth & conueyeth the matter with this …
With rule
… if we deſire not to be of the number of theſe) marke well the ſubtillsubtle ſleights, and pollicie of the Diuell, how he handeleth & conueyeth the matter with this …
George Gifford · Sermon on the Parable of the Sower · Open in the reader
Printed
… who hath a finger in all temptations; in which reſpect the more powerfull, malicious, ſubtillsubtle, and ſedulous he is, the more dangerous is temptation. Not without cauſe therefore did …
With rule
… who hath a finger in all temptations; in which reſpect the more powerfull, malicious, ſubtillsubtle, and ſedulous he is, the more dangerous is temptation. Not without cauſe therefore did …
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 276 · Open in the reader
Printed
The ſubtillsubtle Serpent pretended great kindneſſe to our firſt Parents, counſelling them to eate of the …
With rule
The ſubtillsubtle Serpent pretended great kindneſſe to our firſt Parents, counſelling them to eate of the …
Henry Greenwood · Works · p. 77 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Thomas Aquinas, Ioannes Scotus, Occam, Gerardus Bonomensis, Aegidius Romanus, Magister Sententiarū, vvith other like subtillsubtle schoolemen and Sorbonistes, vvho with their gloses, allegories and distinctions, corrupted the true sence …
With rule
… Thomas Aquinas, Ioannes Scotus, Occam, Gerardus Bonomensis, Aegidius Romanus, Magister Sententiarū, vvith other like subtillsubtle schoolemen and Sorbonistes, vvho with their gloses, allegories and distinctions, corrupted the true sence …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
Printed
… doe ſucke; yet they expect no harueſt from vs: this is their fruites. The ſubtillsubtle winds come puffing out of their cauernes, to make artificiall motions, wholeſome ayres, and …
With rule
… doe ſucke; yet they expect no harueſt from vs: this is their fruites. The ſubtillsubtle winds come puffing out of their cauernes, to make artificiall motions, wholeſome ayres, and …
Thomas Adams · The Barren Tree · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
2. All the policies, wisest counsels, and subtillsubtle devises of men, if they are not squared out according to the rule of …
With rule
2. All the policies, wisest counsels, and subtillsubtle devises of men, if they are not squared out according to the rule of …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 212 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Mystery of Self-Deceiving A21024

Printed
6 SubtillSubtle distinctions. p. 164.
With rule
6 SubtillSubtle distinctions. p. 164.
Daniel Dyke · The Mystery of Self-Deceiving · Open in the reader

Apology Against the Exceptions of Black and Kendall A26864

Printed
… that I am acquainted in) whether the greater number be of the Profound, or SubtillSubtle, or Angelical, or Seraphical, or Irrefragable ſort of Doctors? or equal to ſome of …
With rule
… that I am acquainted in) whether the greater number be of the Profound, or SubtillSubtle, or Angelical, or Seraphical, or Irrefragable ſort of Doctors? or equal to ſome of …
Richard Baxter · Apology Against the Exceptions of Black and Kendall · p. 49 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Job 4-7 A35438

Printed
… all ſubtilty and miſchiefe, is called at the next word, child of the Devill. SubtillSubtle to doe miſchiefe, is the Genius or diſpoſition of the Devils children; and they …
With rule
… all ſubtilty and miſchiefe, is called at the next word, child of the Devill. SubtillSubtle to doe miſchiefe, is the Genius or diſpoſition of the Devils children; and they …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 4-7 · p. 275 · Open in the reader

Treatise of Divinity A47629

Printed
… Doctor of the Gentiles) of whom Chrysostome writes severall Homilies, is indeed an Angelicall, SubtillSubtle, Irrefragable Doctor. Austin desired three things: to have seen Christ in the flesh, Rome …
With rule
… Doctor of the Gentiles) of whom Chrysostome writes severall Homilies, is indeed an Angelicall, SubtillSubtle, Irrefragable Doctor. Austin desired three things: to have seen Christ in the flesh, Rome …
Edward Leigh · Treatise of Divinity · Open in the reader

A Counterpoison A67746

Printed
… of the Trinity had not bee…e so accurately cleared by the Catholike Doctors. SubtillSubtle arguments well answered, breed a cleare conclusion; heresie makes men sharpen their wits the …
With rule
… of the Trinity had not bee…e so accurately cleared by the Catholike Doctors. SubtillSubtle arguments well answered, breed a cleare conclusion; heresie makes men sharpen their wits the …
Richard Younge · A Counterpoison · p. 88 · Open in the reader