Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10063 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dream'tdreamed

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

Puritas changed it: 85 times in 67 works
Consistency: 95.5% (85 of 89)
Reach if approved: ~94 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: dreamt
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 89 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: dreamit (4)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (85 changes in 67 works, 95.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 85)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… to God, and so the Iesuites hold much what to like purpose, they haue dream'tdreamed so long of a preuision, that they thrust it at length into predestination it …
With rule
… to God, and so the Iesuites hold much what to like purpose, they haue dream'tdreamed so long of a preuision, that they thrust it at length into predestination it …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 115 · Open in the reader
Printed
… entred into the Ark. Their ſenſuality laid them all a-ſleep, and they never dream'tdreamed of that Flood that came and deſtroyed them all. It is ſaid of the …
With rule
… entred into the Ark. Their ſenſuality laid them all a-ſleep, and they never dream'tdreamed of that Flood that came and deſtroyed them all. It is ſaid of the …
Richard Alleine · Godly Fear · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… involved: Hee taxes this vanity thus, that hee wishes them the happiness which they dream'tdreamed they had, that their happiness might comfort the Apostles, who lay in many afflictions.
With rule
… involved: Hee taxes this vanity thus, that hee wishes them the happiness which they dream'tdreamed they had, that their happiness might comfort the Apostles, who lay in many afflictions.
David Dickson · An Exposition of Pauls Epistles · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Keeper was dead Octob. 23. 1623. that is, being interpreted, in the Duke's Affections. June 14. 1626. He dream'tdreamed the Biſhop of Lincoln came, he knew not with whom, with Iron Chains, but …
With rule
… Keeper was dead Octob. 23. 1623. that is, being interpreted, in the Duke's Affections. June 14. 1626. He dream'tdreamed the Biſhop of Lincoln came, he knew not with whom, with Iron Chains, but …
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you and I may say the same. They that are Witchee now, once little dream'tdreamed of ever becoming so. Let him that stands, take heed lest he fall. If …
With rule
… you and I may say the same. They that are Witchee now, once little dream'tdreamed of ever becoming so. Let him that stands, take heed lest he fall. If …
Cotton Mather · Memorable Providences · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them to consider. With what out-cries was Bp. Hall (good man, who little dream'tdreamed of any peace with Rome) pursued by Burton and other Hot spurs, for yielding …
With rule
… them to consider. With what out-cries was Bp. Hall (good man, who little dream'tdreamed of any peace with Rome) pursued by Burton and other Hot spurs, for yielding …
Robert Sanderson · Fourteen Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… Riddles which they never heard of, the expounding of thoſe myſteries which they never dream'tdreamed of; for us, I ſay, who have ſeen a marvellous light, thereby only to …
With rule
… Riddles which they never heard of, the expounding of thoſe myſteries which they never dream'tdreamed of; for us, I ſay, who have ſeen a marvellous light, thereby only to …
Henry Hammond · Works Volume 4 · p. 650 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the ayr; but God ſent them ſuch a drift of quailes, as Moſes dream'tdreamed not of: he fed them with meat of Kings, bread of Angels.
With rule
… of the ayr; but God ſent them ſuch a drift of quailes, as Moſes dream'tdreamed not of: he fed them with meat of Kings, bread of Angels.
John Trapp · Commentary on the Pentateuch · p. 20 · 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.