Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10029 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tertullianstertullian's

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

Puritas changed it: 612 times in 297 works
Consistency: 100% (612 of 612)
Reach if approved: ~643 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: tertullia's
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 612 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (612 changes in 297 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 612)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… thou mayst happen to hate that whereof thou art ignorant: then which nothing in TertulliansTertullian's judgment, is more uniust, no not though the thing in it self iustly deserue …
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… thou mayst happen to hate that whereof thou art ignorant: then which nothing in TertulliansTertullian's judgment, is more uniust, no not though the thing in it self iustly deserue …
John Robinson · Apology of Certain Christians · p. 5 · Open in the reader
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… Iurejurando; Erasmus in diverse of his workes, and Beatus Rhenanus in his argument upon TertulliansTertullian's booke de Poenitentiâ:) the fathers of Trent within 72. yeares after that, conspired together to …
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… Iurejurando; Erasmus in diverse of his workes, and Beatus Rhenanus in his argument upon TertulliansTertullian's booke de Poenitentiâ:) the fathers of Trent within 72. yeares after that, conspired together to …
James Ussher · Answer to a Jesuit in Ireland · p. 108 · Open in the reader
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… becauſe of their conſent in doctrine, with the Apoſtles. This is the ſumme of TertulliansTertullian's words: the words themſelues run thus. To this triall (namely by doctrine, as the …
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… becauſe of their conſent in doctrine, with the Apoſtles. This is the ſumme of TertulliansTertullian's words: the words themſelues run thus. To this triall (namely by doctrine, as the …
Anthony Wotton · A Trial of the Romish Clergys Title to the Church · p. 300 · Open in the reader
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… but that thys abuſe is very auncient / and was in Iuſtin Martyrs tyme / in TertulliansTertullian's and Cyprians tyme / euen as alſo there were other abuſes crept into the ſupper …
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… but that thys abuſe is very auncient / and was in Iuſtin Martyrs tyme / in TertulliansTertullian's and Cyprians tyme / euen as alſo there were other abuſes crept into the ſupper …
Thomas Cartwright · A Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift · p. 146 · Open in the reader
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… here S. E. helpes you at a dead lift, alleadging a testimony out of TertulliansTertullian's booke de resurrectione carnis, for the carnall presence of Christ in the Sacrament. The …
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… here S. E. helpes you at a dead lift, alleadging a testimony out of TertulliansTertullian's booke de resurrectione carnis, for the carnall presence of Christ in the Sacrament. The …
Daniel Featley · Transubstantiation Exploded · p. 71 · Open in the reader
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… Henry the eight, because it no where noteth that any such King did raigne. TertulliansTertullian's speech is probable concerning such matter as he there speaketh of. There was, saith …
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… Henry the eight, because it no where noteth that any such King did raigne. TertulliansTertullian's speech is probable concerning such matter as he there speaketh of. There was, saith …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 103 · Open in the reader
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… all mankind, and all Nations, were conuerted before his time, to the Euangelicall Law. TertulliansTertullian's witneſſe is moſt pregnant, for he peremptorily affirmeth, that in his age, The varieties …
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… all mankind, and all Nations, were conuerted before his time, to the Euangelicall Law. TertulliansTertullian's witneſſe is moſt pregnant, for he peremptorily affirmeth, that in his age, The varieties …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 238 · Open in the reader
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… in his booke de Corona militis, cap. 9. pag. 156. Nusquam Christianus aliud est. Therefore in TertulliansTertullian's iudgement a true and faithfull Christian, can neither finally nor totally fall from grace.
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… in his booke de Corona militis, cap. 9. pag. 156. Nusquam Christianus aliud est. Therefore in TertulliansTertullian's iudgement a true and faithfull Christian, can neither finally nor totally fall from grace.
William Prynne · The Perpetuity of a Regenerate Mans Estate · p. 159 · Open in the reader

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None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.