Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10048 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

will'dwilled

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

Puritas changed it: 160 times in 110 works
Consistency: 98.1% (160 of 163)
Reach if approved: ~171 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: willed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 163 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (160 changes in 110 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 160)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… not given to Wine, or greedy of filthy lucre: not ſoon angry, brawlers, ſelf-will'dwilled, proud, contentious, and ill Examples in their Families or Country.
With rule
… not given to Wine, or greedy of filthy lucre: not ſoon angry, brawlers, ſelf-will'dwilled, proud, contentious, and ill Examples in their Families or Country.
Vavasor Powell · Common Prayer Book No Divine Service · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of their creation and cleanneſs? They came now downe from heauen, and Peter was will'dwilled to eate of them. But Peter remembring that they were forbidden to bee eaten …
With rule
… of their creation and cleanneſs? They came now downe from heauen, and Peter was will'dwilled to eate of them. But Peter remembring that they were forbidden to bee eaten …
Anthony Wotton · Sermons Upon John 1 · p. 136 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Yet as if, in mere defiance of our vows and interests, we not onely will'dwilled the ruine, but would fight for it, we may find, in stead of this …
With rule
… Yet as if, in mere defiance of our vows and interests, we not onely will'dwilled the ruine, but would fight for it, we may find, in stead of this …
Richard Allestree · A Sermon Preached 17 November 1667 · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
SElf-will'dwilled we are by nature, if God pleaſe
With rule
SElf-will'dwilled we are by nature, if God pleaſe
Nicolas Billingsley · A Treasury of Divine Raptures · p. 180 · Open in the reader
Printed
How can it (bound with self-will'dwilled cords)
With rule
How can it (bound with self-will'dwilled cords)
Phineas Fletcher · A Fathers Testament · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them, than that they ſhould have ſtrength to commit thoſe Sins, that if but will'dwilled, will damn them; but if executed, will ſink their Souls ſeven-fold deeper into …
With rule
… them, than that they ſhould have ſtrength to commit thoſe Sins, that if but will'dwilled, will damn them; but if executed, will ſink their Souls ſeven-fold deeper into …
Ezekiel Hopkins · Sermons Volume 2 · p. 270 · Open in the reader
Printed
… those Sins, and expensive Vices; and of all my unlawful, or unwise and self-will'dwilled Projects; and of all my impoverishing Neglects, or Mismanagements; which have drawn all these …
With rule
… those Sins, and expensive Vices; and of all my unlawful, or unwise and self-will'dwilled Projects; and of all my impoverishing Neglects, or Mismanagements; which have drawn all these …
John Kettlewell · An Office for Prisoners for Crimes · p. 99 · Open in the reader
Printed
… resolution may more befitt a foolish then a Christian King, to preferr a self-will'dwilled conscience before a Kingdoms good; especially in the deniall of that which Law and …
With rule
… resolution may more befitt a foolish then a Christian King, to preferr a self-will'dwilled conscience before a Kingdoms good; especially in the deniall of that which Law and …
John Milton · Answer to a Book · p. 42 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.