Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12720 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

subtillysubtly

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

Puritas changed it: 757 times in 484 works
Consistency: 98.8% (757 of 766)
Reach if approved: ~805 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: subtly
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 766 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (757 changes in 484 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 757)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… recantations granted him open audience: at which time hee answered all their arguments profoundly▪ & subtillysubtly disputing of many matters, at last he much praised the blessednes of Iohn Hus …
With rule
… recantations granted him open audience: at which time hee answered all their arguments profoundly▪ & subtillysubtly disputing of many matters, at last he much praised the blessednes of Iohn Hus …
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 125 · Open in the reader
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… gold without gold. An excellent gift he had to define properly, deuide exactly, dispute subtillysubtly, answer directly, speake pithily, and write iudicially: and how he preached, if these Sermons …
With rule
… gold without gold. An excellent gift he had to define properly, deuide exactly, dispute subtillysubtly, answer directly, speake pithily, and write iudicially: and how he preached, if these Sermons …
William Perkins · Lectures Upon Revelation 1-3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… then hee is a Serpent: and ſo in Acts 7.19. Stephen ſaith, the Egyptians dealt ſubtillysubtly with the Iſraelites. the third thing in the manner of their oppoſition, is the …
With rule
… then hee is a Serpent: and ſo in Acts 7.19. Stephen ſaith, the Egyptians dealt ſubtillysubtly with the Iſraelites. the third thing in the manner of their oppoſition, is the …
John Randall · Twenty-Nine Lectures · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… applyeth himſelfe, ſometimes by flattery, ſometimes by feare, ſometimes by feeding our humours hee ſubtillysubtly inticeth vs, ſometimes by violence hee goeth about to enforce vs, ſometimes by changing …
With rule
… applyeth himſelfe, ſometimes by flattery, ſometimes by feare, ſometimes by feeding our humours hee ſubtillysubtly inticeth vs, ſometimes by violence hee goeth about to enforce vs, ſometimes by changing …
Henry Smith · Two Sermons of Jonahs Punishment · Open in the reader
Printed
Thus subtillysubtly intending to hold with the hound, and run with the hare, Satan hath prickt …
With rule
Thus subtillysubtly intending to hold with the hound, and run with the hare, Satan hath prickt …
Thomas Taylor · Christs Combat and Conquest · p. 230 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are vppon mens othes condemned to death, and much innocent bloud is shed. How subtillysubtly he continueth these matters, I haue to my smal skill laide open in this …
With rule
… are vppon mens othes condemned to death, and much innocent bloud is shed. How subtillysubtly he continueth these matters, I haue to my smal skill laide open in this …
George Gifford · Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts · Open in the reader
Printed
… true of all other euils, cloſely but iuſtly, ſent from God as puniſhments, or ſubtillysubtly plotted by men as ſnares in the darke, that is, as ſnares laid priuily …
With rule
… true of all other euils, cloſely but iuſtly, ſent from God as puniſhments, or ſubtillysubtly plotted by men as ſnares in the darke, that is, as ſnares laid priuily …
Robert Horne · The Shield of Righteousness · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to be noted, that the Apoſtle doth not vſe the preterperfect tenſe as Bellarmine ſubtillysubtly diſputeth, to ſignifie that he ſpeaketh of thoſe onely that had not beleeued the …
With rule
… to be noted, that the Apoſtle doth not vſe the preterperfect tenſe as Bellarmine ſubtillysubtly diſputeth, to ſignifie that he ſpeaketh of thoſe onely that had not beleeued the …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 70 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

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

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

Printed
To goe beyond, over-reach, defraud, 1 Thess. 4. 6. Deceive, 2 Sam. 3. 25. Deal trecherously, …. 41. 2. Falsely, Jer. 8. 10. SubtillySubtly, 2 King. 10. 19. Corruptly, Neh. 1. 7. which is done, by words, Gen. 3. 13. 1 King. 22. 20. 21. 2 Cor. 11. 3. Deeds, Gen. 29. 25. Josh …
With rule
To goe beyond, over-reach, defraud, 1 Thess. 4. 6. Deceive, 2 Sam. 3. 25. Deal trecherously, …. 41. 2. Falsely, Jer. 8. 10. SubtillySubtly, 2 King. 10. 19. Corruptly, Neh. 1. 7. which is done, by words, Gen. 3. 13. 1 King. 22. 20. 21. 2 Cor. 11. 3. Deeds, Gen. 29. 25. Josh …
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
SubtillySubtly]
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SubtillySubtly]
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 626 · Open in the reader
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Exod. 1. 10. SubtillySubtly, as in Act. 7. 19. Politickly, 2 …. 11. 23. Learnedly, expertly, cunningly, Psal. 58. 5. Prudently, Psal. 64. 9. Understandingly, deliberately, Pro. 16. 20. …, Luk. 16. 8.
With rule
Exod. 1. 10. SubtillySubtly, as in Act. 7. 19. Politickly, 2 …. 11. 23. Learnedly, expertly, cunningly, Psal. 58. 5. Prudently, Psal. 64. 9. Understandingly, deliberately, Pro. 16. 20. …, Luk. 16. 8.
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 734 · Open in the reader

Faith and Experience B08802

Printed
… To queſtion whether there was a Chriſt or no, &c. Satan wrought Secretly and SubtillySubtly. I being ignorant of his myſteries, was for a certaine time given up to …
With rule
… To queſtion whether there was a Chriſt or no, &c. Satan wrought Secretly and SubtillySubtly. I being ignorant of his myſteries, was for a certaine time given up to …
John Collinges · Faith and Experience · p. 16 · Open in the reader