Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10124 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

beguil'dbeguile'd

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

Puritas changed it: 49 times in 37 works
Consistency: 98.0% (49 of 50)
Reach if approved: ~53 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: beguiled
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 50 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (49 changes in 37 works, 98.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 49)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… with those jests, which coozen your expectation? You can call it Pleasure to be beguil'dbeguile'd in troubles, and in the most excellent toy in the world, you call it …
With rule
… with those jests, which coozen your expectation? You can call it Pleasure to be beguil'dbeguile'd in troubles, and in the most excellent toy in the world, you call it …
John Donne · Certain Paradoxes and Problems · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
To thoſe that of their comforts are beguil'dbeguile'd.
With rule
To thoſe that of their comforts are beguil'dbeguile'd.
Nicolas Billingsley · A Treasury of Divine Raptures · p. 143 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that are out of Chriſt? The Apoſtle calls them unſtable Souls, that are eaſily beguil'dbeguile'd; and how can they be otherwiſe? 2 Pet. 2.14. The Devil does with them as he …
With rule
… that are out of Chriſt? The Apoſtle calls them unſtable Souls, that are eaſily beguil'dbeguile'd; and how can they be otherwiſe? 2 Pet. 2.14. The Devil does with them as he …
Timothy Cruso · Twenty-Four Sermons · p. 115 · Open in the reader
Printed
She hath beguil'dbeguile'd, and who no better knows
With rule
She hath beguil'dbeguile'd, and who no better knows
John Griffith · Some Prison Meditations · p. 78 · Open in the reader
Printed
That wisest and best men full oft beguil'dbeguile'd
With rule
That wisest and best men full oft beguil'dbeguile'd
John Milton · Paradise Regained · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the light, and tell over the Dreams and Shades that have diſquieted, or beguil'dbeguile'd you, through the paſſages of the night; and yet while you keep your Beds …
With rule
… in the light, and tell over the Dreams and Shades that have diſquieted, or beguil'dbeguile'd you, through the paſſages of the night; and yet while you keep your Beds …
Samuel Stodden · The Voice of the Rod · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
What hath thee ſo beguil'dbeguile'd
With rule
What hath thee ſo beguil'dbeguile'd
Ralph Venning · Things Worth Thinking on · p. 71 · Open in the reader
Printed
3 Exhort. Beware you be not beguil'dbeguile'd of this reward. Col. 2.18. Men are by Satan miſerably couſen'd, he takes gold from …
With rule
3 Exhort. Beware you be not beguil'dbeguile'd of this reward. Col. 2.18. Men are by Satan miſerably couſen'd, he takes gold from …
Christopher Blackwood · Expositions Upon Matthew 1-10 · p. 889 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Paradise Lost A50919

Printed
Beguil'dBeguile'd by fair Idolatresses, fell
With rule
Beguil'dBeguile'd by fair Idolatresses, fell
John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader