Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10007 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

rack'dracked

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

Puritas changed it: 64 times in 45 works
Consistency: 90.1% (64 of 71)
Reach if approved: ~75 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: racked
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 71 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (64 changes in 45 works, 90.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 64)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the Caſe of that Perſon is very ſad, that when he has been newly rack'dracked, and while he is yet ſore and pained, is to be carried again to …
With rule
… the Caſe of that Perſon is very ſad, that when he has been newly rack'dracked, and while he is yet ſore and pained, is to be carried again to …
Timothy Rogers · Early Religion · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… how terrible, how intollerable is the pain of it! What wiſe man would be rack'dracked a day for a moments delight? much leſs ſuffer the wrath of an infinite …
With rule
… how terrible, how intollerable is the pain of it! What wiſe man would be rack'dracked a day for a moments delight? much leſs ſuffer the wrath of an infinite …
George Swinnock · The Sinners Last Sentence · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the testimony and rejoycing of a Mans own Conscience. As a wicked Man is rack'dracked and tormented from his own guilt, and horror and deceit, though none else know …
With rule
… the testimony and rejoycing of a Mans own Conscience. As a wicked Man is rack'dracked and tormented from his own guilt, and horror and deceit, though none else know …
Samuel Hardy · A Second Guide to Heaven · p. 207 · Open in the reader
Printed
… many, that I cannot count all my sinnes, that thou sufferedst thus to bee rack'dracked, that thou could'st count all thy bones? my sinnes indeede are many, so many …
With rule
… many, that I cannot count all my sinnes, that thou sufferedst thus to bee rack'dracked, that thou could'st count all thy bones? my sinnes indeede are many, so many …
Charles Herle · Contemplations and Devotions · p. 320 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whom he had but one bed; if they were too short for it, he rack'dracked them out longer; if too long, he cut them shorter.
With rule
… whom he had but one bed; if they were too short for it, he rack'dracked them out longer; if too long, he cut them shorter.
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 362 · Open in the reader
Printed
… state, reprobate Sinners that are in Hell, under an utter impossibility of deliverance, are rack'dracked and tortur'd by absolute despair: So the Blessed Above, that enjoy the Beatifick Vision …
With rule
… state, reprobate Sinners that are in Hell, under an utter impossibility of deliverance, are rack'dracked and tortur'd by absolute despair: So the Blessed Above, that enjoy the Beatifick Vision …
William Bates · The Blessed Place and State of the Saints Above · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as those of greater latitude. And why should the judgments of such men be rack'dracked, and their spirits vexed with curious scrutinies? The ancient Sacred Bonds of Fidelity, are …
With rule
… as those of greater latitude. And why should the judgments of such men be rack'dracked, and their spirits vexed with curious scrutinies? The ancient Sacred Bonds of Fidelity, are …
John Corbet · A Discourse of the Religion of England · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Tower, where one of his own Religion saith that he was exquisitissimis cruciatibus tortus, rack'dracked with most exquisite torments.
With rule
… Tower, where one of his own Religion saith that he was exquisitissimis cruciatibus tortus, rack'dracked with most exquisite torments.
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 222 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

1 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.

Divine Comforts A59579

Printed
… Can a Man that hath felt this, Groan'd under, been Cruſh'd, and Crucifi'd, and Rack'dRacked, and Rent in pieces with it, and that perhaps many Weeks, Months, Years together …
With rule
… Can a Man that hath felt this, Groan'd under, been Cruſh'd, and Crucifi'd, and Rack'dRacked, and Rent in pieces with it, and that perhaps many Weeks, Months, Years together …
Thomas Sharpe · Divine Comforts · p. 96 · Open in the reader