Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10000 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

poyson'dpoison'd

Apostrophes added or expanded, mostly possessives: gods → god's. Approve one at a time: some places are plurals.

Puritas changed it: 106 times in 85 works
Consistency: 100% (106 of 106)
Reach if approved: ~111 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: poisoned
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 106 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (106 changes in 85 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 106)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Was wont to pierce with poyſon'dpoison'd darts,
With rule
Was wont to pierce with poyſon'dpoison'd darts,
John Bryan · Harvest-Home · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wounded with poyſon'dpoison'd fierie arrowes; yet with a vaſt difference; theſe are wounded and poyſon'dpoison'd, that they may be healed, and they are wounded and poyſon'dpoison'd, that they may …
With rule
… wounded with poyſon'dpoison'd fierie arrowes; yet with a vaſt difference; theſe are wounded and poyſon'dpoison'd, that they may be healed, and they are wounded and poyſon'dpoison'd, that they may …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 4-7 · p. 427 · Open in the reader
Printed
… gluttony and drunkenneſſe, and ſport…d themſelves with their ſin and nakeneſſe; men are poyſon'dpoison'd in ill company.
With rule
… gluttony and drunkenneſſe, and ſport…d themſelves with their ſin and nakeneſſe; men are poyſon'dpoison'd in ill company.
William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 · p. 281 · Open in the reader
Printed
For that as ſhe had already by her poyſon'dpoison'd Baits, brought to Deſtruction more Noble-men and their Houſes, and a greater multitude …
With rule
For that as ſhe had already by her poyſon'dpoison'd Baits, brought to Deſtruction more Noble-men and their Houſes, and a greater multitude …
John Milton · The Sovereign Right and Power of the People Over Tyrants · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… perform no action; and alas how has ſin got into it, and deſiled it, poyſon'dpoison'd the very fountain?
With rule
… perform no action; and alas how has ſin got into it, and deſiled it, poyſon'dpoison'd the very fountain?
Samuel Shaw · The True Christians T est · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… defeated: Hee used to eate Poison; and in his last great overthrow would have poyson'dpoison'd himselfe, but it had not the strength to worke upon him. Being in prison …
With rule
… defeated: Hee used to eate Poison; and in his last great overthrow would have poyson'dpoison'd himselfe, but it had not the strength to worke upon him. Being in prison …
Thomas Taylor · The Theater of Gods Judgments Part 2 · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
They've poyſon'dpoison'd me with giving too much ſteel:
With rule
They've poyſon'dpoison'd me with giving too much ſteel:
Robert Wild · Iter Boreal 2 · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… proud of his knowledge, is become blinde with light: proud of his vertue, is poyſon'dpoison'd with the Antidote; Blown up with his Authoritie and height of his place and …
With rule
… proud of his knowledge, is become blinde with light: proud of his vertue, is poyſon'dpoison'd with the Antidote; Blown up with his Authoritie and height of his place and …
Hezekiah Woodward · A Childs Patrimony · p. 55 · 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.