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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10100 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

allay'dallayed

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

Puritas changed it
59 times in 55 works
Consistency
96.7% (59 of 61)
Reach if approved
~64 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: allayed
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
61 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (59 changes in 55 works, 96.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 59)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … which this Spirit brings, is heavenly and from above: It is not sordid, base, allay'dallayed with base ends, and eclipsed by the interposition of the earth. Non remanebit extra …
    With rule
    … which this Spirit brings, is heavenly and from above: It is not sordid, base, allay'dallayed with base ends, and eclipsed by the interposition of the earth. Non remanebit extra …

    William Nicholson · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 361 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … so impetuosly are in his soul; it hath a pious fever, which cannot be allay'dallayed but by pouring out of his soul to God in the Temple, by breathing …
    With rule
    … so impetuosly are in his soul; it hath a pious fever, which cannot be allay'dallayed but by pouring out of his soul to God in the Temple, by breathing …

    Richard Allestree · Eighteen Sermons · p. 299 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … and Marſi conjured Serpents, and put them to flight; thus Orpheus by his ſinging allay'dallayed the Tempeſts, for the ſake of the Argonauts; Thus, as Homer relates, by ſome …
    With rule
    … and Marſi conjured Serpents, and put them to flight; thus Orpheus by his ſinging allay'dallayed the Tempeſts, for the ſake of the Argonauts; Thus, as Homer relates, by ſome …

    Balthasar Bekker · The World Bewitched · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … you both, as that the former shall be greatly increased, and the latter proportionably allay'dallayed, and mitigated, thereby. Thus is the Advantage of your Conjugal State, both represented in …
    With rule
    … you both, as that the former shall be greatly increased, and the latter proportionably allay'dallayed, and mitigated, thereby. Thus is the Advantage of your Conjugal State, both represented in …

    John Howe · The Redeemers Dominion Over the Invisible World · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … to beg of God in prayer if you would have the trouble of ſoul allay'dallayed.
    With rule
    … to beg of God in prayer if you would have the trouble of ſoul allay'dallayed.

    Christopher Love · The Dejected Souls Cure · p. 207 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … full of mixture. Not all ſour, nor all ſweet; The ſtrength of it is allay'dallayed, and temper'd by God, that it intoxicate not the head, nor produce a feavour …
    With rule
    … full of mixture. Not all ſour, nor all ſweet; The ſtrength of it is allay'dallayed, and temper'd by God, that it intoxicate not the head, nor produce a feavour …

    William Nicholson · Davids Harp Strung and Tuned · p. 208 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    IV. All the difficulties of Religion are very much allay'dallayed and ſweeten'd by hope and by love. By the hopes of a mighty reward …
    With rule
    IV. All the difficulties of Religion are very much allay'dallayed and ſweeten'd by hope and by love. By the hopes of a mighty reward …

    John Tillotson · Sermons and Discourses Volume 1 · p. 237 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … it. This is that rationall burning that mariage is to remedy, not to be allay'dallayed with fasting, nor with any penance to be subdu'd, which how can he asswage …
    With rule
    … it. This is that rationall burning that mariage is to remedy, not to be allay'dallayed with fasting, nor with any penance to be subdu'd, which how can he asswage …

    John Milton · Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce · p. 8 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.