Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10010 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

recover'drecovered

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

Puritas changed it: 197 times in 125 works
Consistency: 93.3% (197 of 211)
Reach if approved: ~222 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: recovered
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 211 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (197 changes in 125 works, 93.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 197)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Thus farr at least recover'drecovered, hath much more
With rule
Thus farr at least recover'drecovered, hath much more
John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader
Printed
And sing this Islands new recover'drecovered sear.
With rule
And sing this Islands new recover'drecovered sear.
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Goods, our Liberties and Lives: for our Estates and Freedom, if lost, may be recover'drecovered; if the present Life be lost for the Cause of God, it shall be …
With rule
… Goods, our Liberties and Lives: for our Estates and Freedom, if lost, may be recover'drecovered; if the present Life be lost for the Cause of God, it shall be …
William Bates · Sermons Preached on Several Occasions · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and unſufferable: Riches, Honours, Friends, and other Earthly Enjoyments may be loſt, and yet recover'drecovered, or at leaſt the Loſs more eaſily born, but the Loſs of the Soul …
With rule
… and unſufferable: Riches, Honours, Friends, and other Earthly Enjoyments may be loſt, and yet recover'drecovered, or at leaſt the Loſs more eaſily born, but the Loſs of the Soul …
Edward Bury · Death Improved and Immoderate Sorrow Reproved · p. 233 · Open in the reader
Printed
… The Preaching of the Word is God's last Remedy; and they that are not recover'drecovered by this, must perish without Remedy. There are no Persons in such dreadful Circumstances …
With rule
… The Preaching of the Word is God's last Remedy; and they that are not recover'drecovered by this, must perish without Remedy. There are no Persons in such dreadful Circumstances …
Timothy Cruso · Discourses Upon the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 183 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of looseness and licentiousness. A Man drinks deadly Poison, and is after many months recover'drecovered by the skill of an excellent Physician; shall we say, there was no hurt …
With rule
… of looseness and licentiousness. A Man drinks deadly Poison, and is after many months recover'drecovered by the skill of an excellent Physician; shall we say, there was no hurt …
John Flavel · Discourse of Mental Errors · p. 393 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we are commonly more apprehenſive of Deliverances, then we are of Preſervations; of health recover'drecovered, then we are of health continued; and of ſafety or plenty reſtored, rather then …
With rule
… we are commonly more apprehenſive of Deliverances, then we are of Preſervations; of health recover'drecovered, then we are of health continued; and of ſafety or plenty reſtored, rather then …
Thomas Horton · The Safety of Jerusalem · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and almoſt quite obliterated in ſome, yet there were many Heathens who retain'd, or recover'drecovered much knowledg of God's Law firſt written in the Heart of Man; yea, they …
With rule
… and almoſt quite obliterated in ſome, yet there were many Heathens who retain'd, or recover'drecovered much knowledg of God's Law firſt written in the Heart of Man; yea, they …
Benjamin Keach · The Jewish Sabbath Abrogated · p. 34 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Paradise Regained A50931

Printed
Recover'dRecovered Paradise to all mankind,
With rule
Recover'dRecovered Paradise to all mankind,
John Milton · Paradise Regained · p. 1 · Open in the reader

A Complete and Compendious Church History A52804

Printed
… Satans Kingdom in Heatheniſm through the Confuſion of Tongues at Babel, which was Bleſſedly Recover'dRecovered by the Gift of Tongues at Sion, Act. 2. 4. 13. The Devil was alſo well-pleaſed …
With rule
… Satans Kingdom in Heatheniſm through the Confuſion of Tongues at Babel, which was Bleſſedly Recover'dRecovered by the Gift of Tongues at Sion, Act. 2. 4. 13. The Devil was alſo well-pleaſed …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… People ſtaying and Mourning for her, (to go before them, Micha 6. 5.) till ſhe was Recover'dRecovered. And another Diſturbance (after this Halt) was, They Journeyed to Kadeſh-barnea, Numb. 13. 3, 26. not …
With rule
… People ſtaying and Mourning for her, (to go before them, Micha 6. 5.) till ſhe was Recover'dRecovered. And another Diſturbance (after this Halt) was, They Journeyed to Kadeſh-barnea, Numb. 13. 3, 26. not …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Colours, treading in the ſame Dirty ſteps of his Idolatrous Father, who, when he Recover'dRecovered Bethel from Jeroboam, 2 Chron. 13. 19. did not Deſtroy the Calf and Idolatry there, for which …
With rule
… Colours, treading in the ſame Dirty ſteps of his Idolatrous Father, who, when he Recover'dRecovered Bethel from Jeroboam, 2 Chron. 13. 19. did not Deſtroy the Calf and Idolatry there, for which …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 192 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Domineering Miſtris of the World: The Provocation was this, 1. The Churches of Aſia were Recover'dRecovered from their aforeſaid Apoſtacy, (which, it ſeems, began in Pauls time, 2 Tim. 1. 15, 16. [All they …
With rule
… Domineering Miſtris of the World: The Provocation was this, 1. The Churches of Aſia were Recover'dRecovered from their aforeſaid Apoſtacy, (which, it ſeems, began in Pauls time, 2 Tim. 1. 15, 16. [All they …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 407 · Open in the reader

Practical Discourses on Sickness and Recovery A57579

Printed
… many Miseries of Life that will sooner or latter overtake them. When we are Recover'dRecovered we can tell the Diseased, of the Goodness and the Power of God, that …
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… many Miseries of Life that will sooner or latter overtake them. When we are Recover'dRecovered we can tell the Diseased, of the Goodness and the Power of God, that …
Timothy Rogers · Practical Discourses on Sickness and Recovery · p. 74 · Open in the reader