Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10021 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

spoyl'dspoil'd

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

Puritas changed it: 58 times in 50 works
Consistency: 100% (58 of 58)
Reach if approved: ~61 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: spoiled
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 58 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (58 changes in 50 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 58)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
That they no doubt are quite dead, kill'd, ſpoyl'dspoil'd, loſt
With rule
That they no doubt are quite dead, kill'd, ſpoyl'dspoil'd, loſt
William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 159 · Open in the reader
Printed
And by my dogges in their late hunting spoyl'dspoil'd.
With rule
And by my dogges in their late hunting spoyl'dspoil'd.
George Wither · The Shepherds Hunting · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the houſe of Rimmon; this Rimmon like the flye in the Alabaſter box, ſpoyl'dspoil'd all his beſt intentions, and higheſt reſolutions; and thus one ſcandalous vice diſgraceth all …
With rule
… in the houſe of Rimmon; this Rimmon like the flye in the Alabaſter box, ſpoyl'dspoil'd all his beſt intentions, and higheſt reſolutions; and thus one ſcandalous vice diſgraceth all …
Thomas Brooks · The Crown and Glory of Christianity · p. 465 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and many more of them did openly revolt when the game seem'd to be spoyl'dspoil'd that was played under-board, it had been far less hurt to us I …
With rule
… and many more of them did openly revolt when the game seem'd to be spoyl'dspoil'd that was played under-board, it had been far less hurt to us I …
Henry Danvers · Second Reply to Baxter · p. 224 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the ſink and jakes of the world, and to have our eſtates waſted and ſpoyl'dspoil'd, and to be expos'd to beggery and want, and to be drag'd from our …
With rule
… the ſink and jakes of the world, and to have our eſtates waſted and ſpoyl'dspoil'd, and to be expos'd to beggery and want, and to be drag'd from our …
Edward Lawrence · Parents Groans over their Wicked Children · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
3. How is Fraternal correption neglected or ſpoyl'dspoil'd in the managing? Some totally neglect reproving their Brethren: Gallio-like, they little care …
With rule
3. How is Fraternal correption neglected or ſpoyl'dspoil'd in the managing? Some totally neglect reproving their Brethren: Gallio-like, they little care …
Lewis Stuckley · A Gospel Glass · p. 383 · Open in the reader
Printed
… one conſent began to make excuſes; the feaſt was ready, grace ready to be ſpoyl'dspoil'd for want of gueſts, and yet neither civility, nor pity, nor common gratitude can …
With rule
… one conſent began to make excuſes; the feaſt was ready, grace ready to be ſpoyl'dspoil'd for want of gueſts, and yet neither civility, nor pity, nor common gratitude can …
Henry Hammond · Works Volume 4 · p. 515 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be any anger, or lust, or envy in the eye, the whole Sacrifice is spoyl'dspoil'd; God will not accept of it.
With rule
… be any anger, or lust, or envy in the eye, the whole Sacrifice is spoyl'dspoil'd; God will not accept of it.
Robert Dingley · Divine Optics · p. 40 · 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.