Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10078 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

snatch'dsnatched

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

Puritas changed it: 146 times in 119 works
Consistency: 93.5% (146 of 156)
Reach if approved: ~164 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: snatched
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 156 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (146 changes in 119 works, 93.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 146)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… free and voluntary explication, his life was not wrentched nor wrung from him, nor snatch'dsnatched or torne from him by the bare violence of any forraine Impression; but was …
With rule
… free and voluntary explication, his life was not wrentched nor wrung from him, nor snatch'dsnatched or torne from him by the bare violence of any forraine Impression; but was …
Edward Reynolds · Meditations on the Lords Supper · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Benefit of another, especially of thy Friend be thy Sorrow? I, but he is snatch'dsnatched from my Arms, and I have a great Loss in his departure, and that …
With rule
… Benefit of another, especially of thy Friend be thy Sorrow? I, but he is snatch'dsnatched from my Arms, and I have a great Loss in his departure, and that …
Richard Allestree · The Whole Duty of Mourning and Preparing Ourselves for Death · p. 152 · Open in the reader
Printed
For he is ſnatch'dsnatched out of the fire and flame
With rule
For he is ſnatch'dsnatched out of the fire and flame
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… away one with another, promiscuously, as he sees good? How many thousands are quickly snatch'dsnatched away as in a moment, who propos'd to themselves many years to come? so …
With rule
… away one with another, promiscuously, as he sees good? How many thousands are quickly snatch'dsnatched away as in a moment, who propos'd to themselves many years to come? so …
Timothy Cruso · The Necessity and Advantage of an Early Victory Over Satan · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was hang'd by the feet with his head downwards betwixt two dogs, which constantly snatch'dsnatched and bit at him. The strangenesse of the torment moved Jacobus Andreas (a grave …
With rule
… was hang'd by the feet with his head downwards betwixt two dogs, which constantly snatch'dsnatched and bit at him. The strangenesse of the torment moved Jacobus Andreas (a grave …
Thomas Fuller · The Holy State · p. 272 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſo ſhort liv'd, that by the time they began to know the World, Death ſnatch'dsnatched them out of it: So a Magiſtrate can yield no great Fruit, that's pluck'd …
With rule
… ſo ſhort liv'd, that by the time they began to know the World, Death ſnatch'dsnatched them out of it: So a Magiſtrate can yield no great Fruit, that's pluck'd …
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
And ſnatch'dsnatched us from the Furious Rage
With rule
And ſnatch'dsnatched us from the Furious Rage
Benjamin Keach · Spiritual Songs · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
Had not a Cloud descending snatch'dsnatched him thence
With rule
Had not a Cloud descending snatch'dsnatched him thence
John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 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
Snatch'dSnatched from the breaſt, the pretty little ones
With rule
Snatch'dSnatched from the breaſt, the pretty little ones
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 18 · Open in the reader

Continuation of Journal from Arrival at Savannah to Leaving Stanford N03932

Printed
… Mr. Byles his Meeting-Houſe, to near double the Number as in the Morning. Snatch'dSnatched a few Moments to write a few Lines to Friends at England; gave a …
With rule
… Mr. Byles his Meeting-Houſe, to near double the Number as in the Morning. Snatch'dSnatched a few Moments to write a few Lines to Friends at England; gave a …
George Whitefield · Continuation of Journal from Arrival at Savannah to Leaving Stanford · p. 75 · Open in the reader