Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10053 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

knock'dknocked

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

Puritas changed it: 122 times in 88 works
Consistency: 94.5% (122 of 129)
Reach if approved: ~136 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: knocked
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 129 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (122 changes in 88 works, 94.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 122)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… own place, Hos. iv. 15. This cost the Spouse in the Canticles sorrow; when Christ knock'dknocked, and still she refused to open to him, at last, I opened to my …
With rule
… own place, Hos. iv. 15. This cost the Spouse in the Canticles sorrow; when Christ knock'dknocked, and still she refused to open to him, at last, I opened to my …
Ralph Brownrig · Twenty-Five Sermons · p. 184 · Open in the reader
Printed
… then didst not consider that delay was dangerous: I stood at thy Door, and knock'dknocked, and cry'd, and call'd, open unto me, and let me in; but thou didst …
With rule
… then didst not consider that delay was dangerous: I stood at thy Door, and knock'dknocked, and cry'd, and call'd, open unto me, and let me in; but thou didst …
Thomas Doolittle · The Saints Mansions in Heaven · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Quire. So it was contriv'd, that this Prelate, no meddler that way, muſt be knock'dknocked down, as the Supporter of the Adherents to the Dort Synod, and others for …
With rule
… Quire. So it was contriv'd, that this Prelate, no meddler that way, muſt be knock'dknocked down, as the Supporter of the Adherents to the Dort Synod, and others for …
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all other Sublunary Things. By bringing our Lives into our Hands, our Hands are knock'dknocked away from too fast a gripe or grasp after Secular Objects. When our Life …
With rule
… all other Sublunary Things. By bringing our Lives into our Hands, our Hands are knock'dknocked away from too fast a gripe or grasp after Secular Objects. When our Life …
Cotton Mather · Soldiers Counseled and Comforted · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Book of God, till he remit this Puniſhment, and lighten his hand. Others are knock'dknocked off from the Promiſes by the Spirit of Bondage, in a ſmart and home …
With rule
… Book of God, till he remit this Puniſhment, and lighten his hand. Others are knock'dknocked off from the Promiſes by the Spirit of Bondage, in a ſmart and home …
Thomas Sharpe · Divine Comforts · p. 337 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but beat upon cold Iron: thou haſt ſtruck fire, but without tinder; thou haſt knock'dknocked at the doore, but there was none within to open to thee. Thus God …
With rule
… but beat upon cold Iron: thou haſt ſtruck fire, but without tinder; thou haſt knock'dknocked at the doore, but there was none within to open to thee. Thus God …
John Trapp · Commentary on Ezra Nehemiah Ester Job and Psalms · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… many Sabbaths God reached f…rth his Word unto me, so many Sermons he knock'dknocked at my doore, and beseeched me to be reconciled; he wo…d me in …
With rule
… many Sabbaths God reached f…rth his Word unto me, so many Sermons he knock'dknocked at my doore, and beseeched me to be reconciled; he wo…d me in …
Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 231 · Open in the reader
Printed
… encouragement to hope for more. I ſay, though you have asked, and ſought, and knock'dknocked, and yet but little comes, yet that very little which you have obtain'd, is …
With rule
… encouragement to hope for more. I ſay, though you have asked, and ſought, and knock'dknocked, and yet but little comes, yet that very little which you have obtain'd, is …
Richard Alleine · A Rebuke to Backsliders and a Spur for Loiterers · p. 204 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

4 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.

A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions A28159

Printed
Knock'dKnocked down i'ch' fire he breathed out his ſoul.
With rule
Knock'dKnocked down i'ch' fire he breathed out his ſoul.
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 176 · Open in the reader

A Complete and Compendious Church History A52804

Printed
… for their Obduration,) but upon the Ground, whither his Adverſaries Verily Thought they had Knock'dKnocked Him down to. Hereupon they more Inſolently Urge him for an Anſwer. At this …
With rule
… for their Obduration,) but upon the Ground, whither his Adverſaries Verily Thought they had Knock'dKnocked Him down to. Hereupon they more Inſolently Urge him for an Anſwer. At this …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 334 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thoſe his Murdering Imaginations and Helliſh Machinations, Chriſt meets him, and Ʋnhorſt him or Knock'dKnocked him down with a Thunder-Bolt, or Flaſh of Lightning, when almoſt at his …
With rule
… thoſe his Murdering Imaginations and Helliſh Machinations, Chriſt meets him, and Ʋnhorſt him or Knock'dKnocked him down with a Thunder-Bolt, or Flaſh of Lightning, when almoſt at his …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 376 · Open in the reader

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

Printed
… by Wild Beaſts; ſome were Slain there in the purſuit; and ſome might be Knock'dKnocked on the Head by the Countrey-People.
With rule
… by Wild Beaſts; ſome were Slain there in the purſuit; and ſome might be Knock'dKnocked on the Head by the Countrey-People.
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 400 · Open in the reader