Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10087 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

absur'dabsurd

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

Puritas changed it: 61 times in 47 works
Consistency: 96.8% (61 of 63)
Reach if approved: ~66 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: absurd
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 63 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (61 changes in 47 works, 96.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 61)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… actuall warre upon them; the condition and Oath too would be meerely voyde, ridiculous, abſur'dabsurd, an high taking of the Name of God in vaine, yea a plaine deluſion …
With rule
… actuall warre upon them; the condition and Oath too would be meerely voyde, ridiculous, abſur'dabsurd, an high taking of the Name of God in vaine, yea a plaine deluſion …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms Part 3 · p. 80 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a ones belief; for there is nothing in the world, so false and so absur'dabsurd although he were assur'd it were so, but he might assent to it, for …
With rule
… a ones belief; for there is nothing in the world, so false and so absur'dabsurd although he were assur'd it were so, but he might assent to it, for …
Richard Allestree · Eighteen Sermons · p. 263 · Open in the reader
Printed
… disposition of the Body, therefore it cannot act at all without it, is as absur'dabsurd as to fancy because a man confin'd to a Chamber cannot see the objects …
With rule
… disposition of the Body, therefore it cannot act at all without it, is as absur'dabsurd as to fancy because a man confin'd to a Chamber cannot see the objects …
William Bates · The Existence of God and the Immortality of the Soul · p. 167 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Juſtification an effect imputed? Sure not. Is Juſtification imputed to Juſtification? Sure that's moſt abſur'dabsurd. Is Mortification imputed to Juſtification? That looks very odd. Is Vocation and Adoption, or …
With rule
… Juſtification an effect imputed? Sure not. Is Juſtification imputed to Juſtification? Sure that's moſt abſur'dabsurd. Is Mortification imputed to Juſtification? That looks very odd. Is Vocation and Adoption, or …
Isaac Chauncy · A Fresh Antidote Against Neonomian Bane · p. 168 · Open in the reader
Printed
Object. But you will ſay, is it not abſur'dabsurd that one grace ſhould be in two powers of the ſoul, that it ſhould …
With rule
Object. But you will ſay, is it not abſur'dabsurd that one grace ſhould be in two powers of the ſoul, that it ſhould …
William Fenner · Remains · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Covenant of Peculiarity. p. 32. l. 29. f. purity r. parity, p. 38. l. 3. f. usurp'd r. absur'dabsurd, p. 39. l. 18. f. ratifie r. ratified, p. 41. l. 39. f. have r. have had, p …
With rule
… Covenant of Peculiarity. p. 32. l. 29. f. purity r. parity, p. 38. l. 3. f. usurp'd r. absur'dabsurd, p. 39. l. 18. f. ratifie r. ratified, p. 41. l. 39. f. have r. have had, p …
Benjamin Keach · A Counter-Antidote · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be all Corrupted, and not one left to detect the Fraud? It is very abſur'dabsurd to fancy a general Conſpiracy between the Jewiſh Doctors to falſify all their Bibles …
With rule
… be all Corrupted, and not one left to detect the Fraud? It is very abſur'dabsurd to fancy a general Conſpiracy between the Jewiſh Doctors to falſify all their Bibles …
James Owen · Further Vindication of the Dissenters · p. 64 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Lords pronounc'd the Sentence, the point of Judgment ſhould be only Theirs, were as abſur'dabsurd, as to conclude that no Authority was veſted in any other Commiſſioner of Oyer …
With rule
… Lords pronounc'd the Sentence, the point of Judgment ſhould be only Theirs, were as abſur'dabsurd, as to conclude that no Authority was veſted in any other Commiſſioner of Oyer …
Henry Scobell · The Power of the Lords and Common in Parliament · p. 3 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Pleasant Purge for a Roman Catholic A56191

Printed
Muſt needes be Idle, Vaine, Abſur'dAbsurd; and ſhe
With rule
Muſt needes be Idle, Vaine, Abſur'dAbsurd; and ſhe
William Prynne · A Pleasant Purge for a Roman Catholic · p. 8 · Open in the reader