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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10115 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

aw'dawe'd

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

Puritas changed it
55 times in 49 works
Consistency
91.6% (55 of 60)
Reach if approved
~63 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: awed
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
60 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (55 changes in 49 works, 91.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 55)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … they are tempted with the Allurements of Profit and Advantage; and ſometimes they are aw'dawe'd with Fears and Threatnings: But if they would put forth their Grace into Exerciſe …
    With rule
    … they are tempted with the Allurements of Profit and Advantage; and ſometimes they are aw'dawe'd with Fears and Threatnings: But if they would put forth their Grace into Exerciſe …

    Nathanael Ranew · The Glory and Happiness of the Saints in Heaven · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    DOUBTLESS indeed they had a Mixture of falſe Profeſſors among them: but theſe being aw'dawe'd by the prevailing Example of ſerious Godlineſs and the common Zeal againſt Sin, were …
    With rule
    DOUBTLESS indeed they had a Mixture of falſe Profeſſors among them: but theſe being aw'dawe'd by the prevailing Example of ſerious Godlineſs and the common Zeal againſt Sin, were …

    Thomas Foxcroft · Observations Historical and Practical on the Rise of New England · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … them countenance and courage for its executions, 'tis uneasy, or they are sollicited or aw'dawe'd, and they look off, at least they seldom put themselves upon it as upon …
    With rule
    … them countenance and courage for its executions, 'tis uneasy, or they are sollicited or aw'dawe'd, and they look off, at least they seldom put themselves upon it as upon …

    Richard Allestree · Forty Sermons · p. 234 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … well the 2d Pſalm to this purpoſe. It was the conſideration of theſe things aw'dawe'd me with the moſt dreadful fears and jealouſies, eſpecially being not a ſtranger to …
    With rule
    … well the 2d Pſalm to this purpoſe. It was the conſideration of theſe things aw'dawe'd me with the moſt dreadful fears and jealouſies, eſpecially being not a ſtranger to …

    Richard Davis · Truth and Innocence Vindicated · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … what they may ſuffer by it, intervene, and make them ſit mopiſh, and over-aw'dawe'd, like Men in whoſe Mouths are no Reproofs; whilſt theſe wicked Wretches, who have …
    With rule
    … what they may ſuffer by it, intervene, and make them ſit mopiſh, and over-aw'dawe'd, like Men in whoſe Mouths are no Reproofs; whilſt theſe wicked Wretches, who have …

    Ezekiel Hopkins · Sermons on Several Scriptures · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … soon removed, our Church knew that divers Ministers and others had been allur'd, or aw'dawe'd to that agreement: She knew that 'twas only made for the Interim and for …
    With rule
    … soon removed, our Church knew that divers Ministers and others had been allur'd, or aw'dawe'd to that agreement: She knew that 'twas only made for the Interim and for …

    William Jameson · The Fundamentals of the Hierarchy Examined and Disproved · p. 57 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Gods eye; for all my wayes are before thee, coram te. Gods preſence over-aw'dawe'd him; whatever he did, he did as in Gods ſight, well knowing, that he …
    With rule
    … Gods eye; for all my wayes are before thee, coram te. Gods preſence over-aw'dawe'd him; whatever he did, he did as in Gods ſight, well knowing, that he …

    William Nicholson · Davids Harp Strung and Tuned · p. 444 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … convictions? And notwithstanding we are allur'd by the most glorious promises and hopes, and aw'dawe'd by the greatest fears, and urg'd by the most forcible argument in the world …
    With rule
    … convictions? And notwithstanding we are allur'd by the most glorious promises and hopes, and aw'dawe'd by the greatest fears, and urg'd by the most forcible argument in the world …

    John Tillotson · Sermon on 14 April 1689 · p. 28 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.