Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10026 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

surpris'dsurprised

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

Puritas changed it: 56 times in 34 works
Consistency: 96.5% (56 of 58)
Reach if approved: ~61 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: surprised
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 (56 changes in 34 works, 96.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 56)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… or to the carelesnesse of the Bishops in suffering themselves to be so supinely surpris'dsurprised. For first the Bishops saw too plainly, that those general words by which they …
With rule
… or to the carelesnesse of the Bishops in suffering themselves to be so supinely surpris'dsurprised. For first the Bishops saw too plainly, that those general words by which they …
Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Wrath doth uſually croſſe and curſe this folly; men are ſurpriſed in body, or ſurpriſ'dsurprised in ſoule; no ſtrength, or no heart, and ſo dy in their ſinne.
With rule
… Wrath doth uſually croſſe and curſe this folly; men are ſurpriſed in body, or ſurpriſ'dsurprised in ſoule; no ſtrength, or no heart, and ſo dy in their ſinne.
Nicholas Lockyer · Balm for Bleeding England and Ireland · p. 319 · Open in the reader
Printed
Then first with fear surpris'dsurprised and sense of paine
With rule
Then first with fear surpris'dsurprised and sense of paine
John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader
Printed
But all ſurpris'dsurprised, by this unlookt for fright,
With rule
But all ſurpris'dsurprised, by this unlookt for fright,
Anne Bradstreet · The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
AT the ſame time ſome others of this bloody crew ſurpris'dsurprised the Mate of the Ship, Thomas Jenkins. And Thomas Streaton (the Carpenter of the …
With rule
AT the ſame time ſome others of this bloody crew ſurpris'dsurprised the Mate of the Ship, Thomas Jenkins. And Thomas Streaton (the Carpenter of the …
Benjamin Colman · Sermon Preached to Pirates Before Their Execution · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be more at a loſs in this Matter, than ſuch as have been ſuddenly ſurpris'dsurprised as Saul, while going on in open Rebellion againſt God, and ſo knock'd down …
With rule
… be more at a loſs in this Matter, than ſuch as have been ſuddenly ſurpris'dsurprised as Saul, while going on in open Rebellion againſt God, and ſo knock'd down …
Joseph Sewall · The Holy Spirit Convincing the World of Sin of Righteousness of Judgment · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… good Things received here, nor under his Wrath by Evil: Let us not be surpris'dsurprised at the Prosperity of the Wicked, nor shaken at the Afflictions of the Godly …
With rule
… good Things received here, nor under his Wrath by Evil: Let us not be surpris'dsurprised at the Prosperity of the Wicked, nor shaken at the Afflictions of the Godly …
William Bates · The Danger of Prosperity · p. 194 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſince That Empire became Chriſtian; in a Beſtian Kingdom of Apoſtaſie; and this hath ſurpris'dsurprised and cut off the bleſſed Emanations of Chriſtianity and the Goſpel, and made the …
With rule
… ſince That Empire became Chriſtian; in a Beſtian Kingdom of Apoſtaſie; and this hath ſurpris'dsurprised and cut off the bleſſed Emanations of Chriſtianity and the Goſpel, and made the …
Thomas Beverley · A Scripture Line of Time · p. 24 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Paradise Lost A50919

Printed
Surpris'dSurprised thee dim thine e…es, and dizzie …wumm
With rule
Surpris'dSurprised thee dim thine e…es, and dizzie …wumm
John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader