Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12540 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

subtiltiesubtlety

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

Puritas changed it: 979 times in 416 works
Consistency: 100% (979 of 979)
Reach if approved: ~1,029 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: subtlety
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 979 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (979 changes in 416 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 979)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… virgin vnto Christ: but I feare least as the Serpent beguiled Eue through his subtiltiesubtlety; so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ. The …
With rule
… virgin vnto Christ: but I feare least as the Serpent beguiled Eue through his subtiltiesubtlety; so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ. The …
Richard Hooker · Sermon of the Certainty and Perpetuity of Faith in the Elect · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… without all feare: now we may defie the ſerpent & his ſéede with all their ſubtiltiesubtlety: let the Deuil now rore and rage, let him fret, let him fume, & fome …
With rule
… without all feare: now we may defie the ſerpent & his ſéede with all their ſubtiltiesubtlety: let the Deuil now rore and rage, let him fret, let him fume, & fome …
Andrew Kingsmill · A View of Mans Estate · Open in the reader
Printed
… And thus the miſt which he ſeeketh to caſt ouer mens eyes, by the ſubtiltiesubtlety of his diſtinctions, is quickly diſpelled, aſſoone as the light of truth ſheweth it …
With rule
… And thus the miſt which he ſeeketh to caſt ouer mens eyes, by the ſubtiltiesubtlety of his diſtinctions, is quickly diſpelled, aſſoone as the light of truth ſheweth it …
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 216 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with reason, then the same olde wylie serpent (which had beguiled mankind first with subtiltiesubtlety and lyes) should be encountred againe with a certaine heauenly policie, (yet voyde of …
With rule
… with reason, then the same olde wylie serpent (which had beguiled mankind first with subtiltiesubtlety and lyes) should be encountred againe with a certaine heauenly policie, (yet voyde of …
John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſimpliciter &c. Therefore if all men from the beginning woulde haue ſimply and without ſubtiltiesubtlety taken vpon them the preaching of the Goſpell, and haue bene content with the …
With rule
… ſimpliciter &c. Therefore if all men from the beginning woulde haue ſimply and without ſubtiltiesubtlety taken vpon them the preaching of the Goſpell, and haue bene content with the …
William Fulke · Answer to the Proud Challenge of a Counterset Catholic · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… differences of things do much exceed the ſharpneſſe of our underſtanding, and yet the ſubtiltiesubtlety of mans underſtanding doth goe farre beyond the rudeneſſe and ſcarcitie of all words …
With rule
… differences of things do much exceed the ſharpneſſe of our underſtanding, and yet the ſubtiltiesubtlety of mans underſtanding doth goe farre beyond the rudeneſſe and ſcarcitie of all words …
Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… and most dangerous hipocrasie, whereby the deuill hath beguyled their owne hartes through his subtiltiesubtlety. This witcherie of the deuill, I say, is the cause why many promysing amendement …
With rule
… and most dangerous hipocrasie, whereby the deuill hath beguyled their owne hartes through his subtiltiesubtlety. This witcherie of the deuill, I say, is the cause why many promysing amendement …
Richard Greenham · Two Learned and Godly Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… had their eyes thrust out, some were most spitefully murthered. No colour, cautel, craft, subtiltiesubtlety, nor vyolence vnsought to fulfil theyr mischieuous purpose.
With rule
… had their eyes thrust out, some were most spitefully murthered. No colour, cautel, craft, subtiltiesubtlety, nor vyolence vnsought to fulfil theyr mischieuous purpose.
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · p. 75 · 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.