Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10023 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stir'dstirred

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

Puritas changed it: 199 times in 128 works
Consistency: 100% (199 of 199)
Reach if approved: ~210 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stirred
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 200 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (199 changes in 128 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 199)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and their charity that maks his Trade their Almes: but his enuie is neuer stir'dstirred so much as when Gentlemen goe ouer to sight vpon Calice Sands, whome hee …
With rule
… and their charity that maks his Trade their Almes: but his enuie is neuer stir'dstirred so much as when Gentlemen goe ouer to sight vpon Calice Sands, whome hee …
John Earle · Micro-Cosmography · Open in the reader
Printed
Theſe things are written for Reconciliation, not Exaſperation; and that we may be all ſtir'dstirred up earneſtly to pray, That the Day may break, and the Shadows fly away …
With rule
Theſe things are written for Reconciliation, not Exaſperation; and that we may be all ſtir'dstirred up earneſtly to pray, That the Day may break, and the Shadows fly away …
Thomas Beverley · A Conciliatory Discourse Upon Crisps Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… up again, or are not ſenſible of them, and their ſouls are no more ſtir'dstirred by them than the body is by a draught of ſmal beer, it is …
With rule
… up again, or are not ſenſible of them, and their ſouls are no more ſtir'dstirred by them than the body is by a draught of ſmal beer, it is …
Jeremiah Burroughs · The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… tongue was intemperate, and he too bold with God; and you ſee how God ſtir'dstirred up the ſpirit of Elihu to lay it home to him, and bring him …
With rule
… tongue was intemperate, and he too bold with God; and you ſee how God ſtir'dstirred up the ſpirit of Elihu to lay it home to him, and bring him …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 32-24 · p. 530 · Open in the reader
Printed
… diſquieted within me, hope thou in God, Pſal. 42. 11. marke he took his conſcience and ſtir'dstirred up himſelfe with it, a wicked man does not thus; his conſcience comes before …
With rule
… diſquieted within me, hope thou in God, Pſal. 42. 11. marke he took his conſcience and ſtir'dstirred up himſelfe with it, a wicked man does not thus; his conſcience comes before …
William Fenner · Christs Alarm to Drowsy Saints · p. 359 · Open in the reader
Printed
… would encrease his paine, and therefore had taken order that he should not be stir'dstirred out of his place. Then the Count de Rhetz turning to certaine Gentle-men …
With rule
… would encrease his paine, and therefore had taken order that he should not be stir'dstirred out of his place. Then the Count de Rhetz turning to certaine Gentle-men …
François Hotman · A Pattern of Popish Peace · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… up in this great fear, as a Spirit inur'd with great things is not stir'dstirred nor affected at all with small matters. And this great fear is as sweet …
With rule
… up in this great fear, as a Spirit inur'd with great things is not stir'dstirred nor affected at all with small matters. And this great fear is as sweet …
Robert Leighton · Sermons · p. 227 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to behold Reconciliation, brought home to him, though all this while he had not ſtir'dstirred out of Doors to fetch it: Now muſt they all rejoyce together in this …
With rule
… to behold Reconciliation, brought home to him, though all this while he had not ſtir'dstirred out of Doors to fetch it: Now muſt they all rejoyce together in this …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 80 · 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.