Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10004 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pul'dpulled

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

Puritas changed it: 90 times in 72 works
Consistency: 98.9% (90 of 91)
Reach if approved: ~96 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pulled
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 91 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (90 changes in 72 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 90)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… were the firſt offendours, which betrai'd him to luſt, therefore his eyes are firſt pul'dpulled out, and he is led a blinde captive to Gaza, where he firſt gaz'd …
With rule
… were the firſt offendours, which betrai'd him to luſt, therefore his eyes are firſt pul'dpulled out, and he is led a blinde captive to Gaza, where he firſt gaz'd …
John Trapp · Gods Love · p. 130 · Open in the reader
Printed
… receiveth Christ, receiveth him wholly, and intirely as Christ, and not as chopt, and pul'dpulled in Pieces: Yet I distinguish between the act of Faith, which layeth hold of …
With rule
… receiveth Christ, receiveth him wholly, and intirely as Christ, and not as chopt, and pul'dpulled in Pieces: Yet I distinguish between the act of Faith, which layeth hold of …
John Bunyan · A Defense of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith in Jesus Christ · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and perfects the man and his actions; as meate in the Pot, if ſuddenly pul'dpulled out, is raw, but if well boil'd, is freed from crude hamors, and ſo …
With rule
… and perfects the man and his actions; as meate in the Pot, if ſuddenly pul'dpulled out, is raw, but if well boil'd, is freed from crude hamors, and ſo …
William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 · p. 524 · Open in the reader
Printed
… face by a continued miracle was ſufficient to have dazeled them, if he had pul'dpulled off his vaile.] But to this he anſwers, The Princes ſuppoſed they did deſerve …
With rule
… face by a continued miracle was ſufficient to have dazeled them, if he had pul'dpulled off his vaile.] But to this he anſwers, The Princes ſuppoſed they did deſerve …
Herbert Palmer · Scripture and Reason Pleased for Defensive Arms · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be stretched: they pul'dpulled them up upon the Cross before they fastened them; they pul'dpulled him to his utmost length. And this is that the Psalmist speaks of, Psal …
With rule
… be stretched: they pul'dpulled them up upon the Cross before they fastened them; they pul'dpulled him to his utmost length. And this is that the Psalmist speaks of, Psal …
James Ussher · Eighteen Sermons · p. 386 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bird offered to fly, and mount up, but ſtill the ſtone at her heel pul'dpulled the bird back again: Whereupon Anſelme fals a weeping; Thus (ſaith he with himſelf …
With rule
… bird offered to fly, and mount up, but ſtill the ſtone at her heel pul'dpulled the bird back again: Whereupon Anſelme fals a weeping; Thus (ſaith he with himſelf …
William Bridge · The Works of William Bridge Volume 3 · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they muſt needs be to the end of the world: Could they have been pul'dpulled down, that work had long agoe been done. When Satan the Dragon did his …
With rule
… they muſt needs be to the end of the world: Could they have been pul'dpulled down, that work had long agoe been done. When Satan the Dragon did his …
William Jenkyn · Exposition of Jude 2 · p. 412 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of ſick England, a Cordiall after blood-letting, and many bitter pills, that have pul'dpulled her down. God is now powring out one mercy after another upon us, and …
With rule
… of ſick England, a Cordiall after blood-letting, and many bitter pills, that have pul'dpulled her down. God is now powring out one mercy after another upon us, and …
John Strickland · Mercy Rejoicing Against Judgment · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature A91224

Printed
Pul'dPulled off by death, and ſo ſhould looke to dye,
With rule
Pul'dPulled off by death, and ſo ſhould looke to dye,
William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 143 · Open in the reader