Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #4513 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

perplexitieperplexity

ie for a final y, y for i: mercie → mercy, tyme → time.

Puritas changed it: 456 times in 241 works
Consistency: 98.2% (456 of 464)
Reach if approved: ~488 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: perplexity
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 464 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (456 changes in 241 works, 98.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 456)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… signifie such a care, as distracts the minde, deuides it, and brings it into perplexitieperplexity. So that it is as much as if hee had said: Bee not carefull …
With rule
… signifie such a care, as distracts the minde, deuides it, and brings it into perplexitieperplexity. So that it is as much as if hee had said: Bee not carefull …
William Perkins · The Reformation of Covetousness · p. 135 · Open in the reader
Printed
… difficult businesse, and to shew their learning in clearing matters of greatest intricacie, and perplexitieperplexity before; so doth Christ esteeme himselfe most honoured, and the vertue and wisedome of …
With rule
… difficult businesse, and to shew their learning in clearing matters of greatest intricacie, and perplexitieperplexity before; so doth Christ esteeme himselfe most honoured, and the vertue and wisedome of …
Edward Reynolds · Explication of Psalm 110 · p. 242 · Open in the reader
Printed
… peace, notwithstāding that he hath promised to answer thē when they pray. In which perplexitieperplexity they must remember, that how so euer he seemeth to keepe silence by not …
With rule
… peace, notwithstāding that he hath promised to answer thē when they pray. In which perplexitieperplexity they must remember, that how so euer he seemeth to keepe silence by not …
William Fulke · A Comfortable Sermon of Faith in Temptations · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet be in our miſerable countrie of Englande: they would haue bene in great perplexitieperplexity, and ſore afrayde to haue made this, or the like anſwere ſayng: Iudge you …
With rule
… yet be in our miſerable countrie of Englande: they would haue bene in great perplexitieperplexity, and ſore afrayde to haue made this, or the like anſwere ſayng: Iudge you …
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… daughter of my people, for it is a day of trouble and ruine, and perplexitieperplexity, by the Lord God of Hosts, in the valley of Uision. Then let vs …
With rule
… daughter of my people, for it is a day of trouble and ruine, and perplexitieperplexity, by the Lord God of Hosts, in the valley of Uision. Then let vs …
Walter Balcanquhall · Sermon Preached 14 April 1623 · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
… King of Nauarre and other Princes. Thinke therefore ye noble Seigniours, in what a perplexitieperplexity this yong and couragious King now standeth, who, as a man may saye, hath …
With rule
… King of Nauarre and other Princes. Thinke therefore ye noble Seigniours, in what a perplexitieperplexity this yong and couragious King now standeth, who, as a man may saye, hath …
François Hotman · The Furious Outrages of France and the Horrible Slaughter · p. XCVI · Open in the reader
Printed
… Stuffe (as noble Prince Henrie well observed) whereby not onelie much loosenes, but also perplexitieperplexity (for want of means) assault them. For as profuse giving exhausteth the fountaine; so …
With rule
… Stuffe (as noble Prince Henrie well observed) whereby not onelie much loosenes, but also perplexitieperplexity (for want of means) assault them. For as profuse giving exhausteth the fountaine; so …
Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 123 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the ſightes of their eyes, and the rumors of Gods wrath, make them in perplexitieperplexity, and at their wittes end. See an example in Cain. Indeed whileſt things go …
With rule
… the ſightes of their eyes, and the rumors of Gods wrath, make them in perplexitieperplexity, and at their wittes end. See an example in Cain. Indeed whileſt things go …
Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 234 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

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

Ten Sermons A11454

Printed
… and so sinne against Gods Law. But neither in this case is there any PerplexitiePerplexity at all in the things themselues: that which there is, is through the default …
With rule
… and so sinne against Gods Law. But neither in this case is there any PerplexitiePerplexity at all in the things themselues: that which there is, is through the default …
Robert Sanderson · Ten Sermons · p. 79 · Open in the reader

Two Sermons Preached at Several Visitations A11457

Printed
… and so sinne against Gods Law. But neither in this case is there any PerplexitiePerplexity at all in the things themselues: that which there is, is through the default …
With rule
… and so sinne against Gods Law. But neither in this case is there any PerplexitiePerplexity at all in the things themselues: that which there is, is through the default …
Robert Sanderson · Two Sermons Preached at Several Visitations · p. 79 · Open in the reader

Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking A15295

Printed
… impossible, where as notwithstanding euery lawe ought to bee possible, as before distinct. 4. erit. PerplexitiePerplexity therefore as touching the thing it selfe is nothing but as touching the minde …
With rule
… impossible, where as notwithstanding euery lawe ought to bee possible, as before distinct. 4. erit. PerplexitiePerplexity therefore as touching the thing it selfe is nothing but as touching the minde …
Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · Open in the reader

Five Sermons 1 A20641

Printed
… no not Spirituall; No Darkeneſſe in the Vnderſtanding, no Scruple in the Conſcience, no PerplexitiePerplexity in the reſolution; Not a Sodaine Death, not a Shamefull Death, not a ſtupide …
With rule
… no not Spirituall; No Darkeneſſe in the Vnderſtanding, no Scruple in the Conſcience, no PerplexitiePerplexity in the reſolution; Not a Sodaine Death, not a Shamefull Death, not a ſtupide …
John Donne · Five Sermons 1 · p. 37 · Open in the reader