Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12600 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

benummedbenumbed

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

Puritas changed it: 618 times in 399 works
Consistency: 98.7% (618 of 626)
Reach if approved: ~658 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: benumbed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 626 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (618 changes in 399 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 618)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… rich and miserable, honourable and damned, to have quiet, and ease here, and a benummedbenumbed conscience, and so in the end to be throwne among the devils for dogges …
With rule
… rich and miserable, honourable and damned, to have quiet, and ease here, and a benummedbenumbed conscience, and so in the end to be throwne among the devils for dogges …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Preparation for Christ · p. 148 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and ſometyme can neuer hit it; ſo that many periſh being ſodainly ſtupiſied and benummedbenumbed with the poyſon. But if the fidler ſtrike vpon that ſtring that pleaſeth their …
With rule
… and ſometyme can neuer hit it; ſo that many periſh being ſodainly ſtupiſied and benummedbenumbed with the poyſon. But if the fidler ſtrike vpon that ſtring that pleaſeth their …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the ſame. 2. In conſcience impureneſſe to excuſe ſin, not to accuſe, beeing dead or benummedbenumbed: and to accuſe for well or ill doing. 3. In will, want of power, to …
With rule
… the ſame. 2. In conſcience impureneſſe to excuſe ſin, not to accuſe, beeing dead or benummedbenumbed: and to accuſe for well or ill doing. 3. In will, want of power, to …
Richard Bernard · A Double Catechism · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
The benummedbenumbed conscience is that which doth not accuse a man for any sinne vnlesse it …
With rule
The benummedbenumbed conscience is that which doth not accuse a man for any sinne vnlesse it …
William Perkins · Conscience · p. 151 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſword drawne, to giue him his death, incōtinent his arme waxed ſo ſtiffe, and benummedbenumbed, that he could neather ſtrike therewith, nor moue the ſame, but in confeſſing (which …
With rule
… ſword drawne, to giue him his death, incōtinent his arme waxed ſo ſtiffe, and benummedbenumbed, that he could neather ſtrike therewith, nor moue the ſame, but in confeſſing (which …
Gabriel Powel · The Papists Reasons of State and Religion · p. 87 · Open in the reader
Printed
… drowsiest, and most stupified, and cauterized conscienses of all such, who are infatuated, and benummedbenumbed with this hellish dropsie:) should so farre insinuate it selfe into the affections, practise …
With rule
… drowsiest, and most stupified, and cauterized conscienses of all such, who are infatuated, and benummedbenumbed with this hellish dropsie:) should so farre insinuate it selfe into the affections, practise …
William Prynne · Healths Sickness · Open in the reader
Printed
… For as it is the property of fire, to warme the body that is benummedbenumbed, and frozen with cold: so when a man is frozen (as it were) and …
With rule
… For as it is the property of fire, to warme the body that is benummedbenumbed, and frozen with cold: so when a man is frozen (as it were) and …
John Frewen · Choice Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
… preſence of the Spirit, and the feeling or comfort of the Spirit. A hand benummedbenumbed with cold, or ſtunted with ſome blow, may hold a thing, and yet haue …
With rule
… preſence of the Spirit, and the feeling or comfort of the Spirit. A hand benummedbenumbed with cold, or ſtunted with ſome blow, may hold a thing, and yet haue …
Adam Harsnett · A Touch-Stone of Grace · p. 238 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

2 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 Penitent Pardoned A49255

Printed
BEnummedBenumbed conſcience 55
With rule
BEnummedBenumbed conſcience 55
Christopher Love · The Penitent Pardoned · Open in the reader

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

Printed
… and Cold: Dr. Lightfoot ſaith well, That though David was now become Cold and BenummedBenumbed by Old Age, yet had he no Sickneſs therewith; he was both Heart-whole …
With rule
… and Cold: Dr. Lightfoot ſaith well, That though David was now become Cold and BenummedBenumbed by Old Age, yet had he no Sickneſs therewith; he was both Heart-whole …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 426 · Open in the reader