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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10126 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

beniaminsbenjamin's

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

Puritas changed it
50 times in 34 works
Consistency
100% (50 of 50)
Reach if approved
~53 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: benjamins
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 (50 changes in 34 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 50)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Ioſeph, when they had beene brought backe to him, the Cup being found in BeniaminsBenjamin's ſacke, Doubtleſſe thy Seruant became ſurety for the Childe to my Father, and ſaide …
    With rule
    … Ioſeph, when they had beene brought backe to him, the Cup being found in BeniaminsBenjamin's ſacke, Doubtleſſe thy Seruant became ſurety for the Childe to my Father, and ſaide …

    William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 374 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … the ſpirit to be preferred before all the endowments of the world; theſe like BeniaminsBenjamin's portion are five-times as good as any of his brethrens; like Iſaacs Inheritance …
    With rule
    … the ſpirit to be preferred before all the endowments of the world; theſe like BeniaminsBenjamin's portion are five-times as good as any of his brethrens; like Iſaacs Inheritance …

    Alexander Grosse · The Buddings and Blossomings of Old Truths · p. 342 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … life: yet he held out to behold with his eyes these partus ingenii, these BeniaminsBenjamin's, sonnes of his right hand, though to him they were Benonies, sonnes of paine …
    With rule
    … life: yet he held out to behold with his eyes these partus ingenii, these BeniaminsBenjamin's, sonnes of his right hand, though to him they were Benonies, sonnes of paine …

    Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … life, I may ſay, (as Iudah ſpake to Ioſeph, of his Father Jacob, concerning BeniaminsBenjamin's returne;) was bound vp in your life, being his only Sonne, the hopefull Heire …
    With rule
    … life, I may ſay, (as Iudah ſpake to Ioſeph, of his Father Jacob, concerning BeniaminsBenjamin's returne;) was bound vp in your life, being his only Sonne, the hopefull Heire …

    Richard Bernard · Reims Against Rome · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the Synagogue in the birth of Paul: and as Iosephs cup was found in BeniaminsBenjamin's sackes mouth, so the word of Christ in the mouth of Paul: and as …
    With rule
    … the Synagogue in the birth of Paul: and as Iosephs cup was found in BeniaminsBenjamin's sackes mouth, so the word of Christ in the mouth of Paul: and as …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Romans · p. 489 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … a great cauſe, that God gaue vp 4000 of Iſrael in a better cauſe to BeniaminsBenjamin's ſvvorde. That Hiſtorie is ioyned to Samſons death, to geue a cloſe vvarning of …
    With rule
    … a great cauſe, that God gaue vp 4000 of Iſrael in a better cauſe to BeniaminsBenjamin's ſvvorde. That Hiſtorie is ioyned to Samſons death, to geue a cloſe vvarning of …

    Hugh Broughton · A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … hee commending the same to Lot before the Lorde, it so fell out, that BeniaminsBenjamin's place fell out to bee in that voide space betwixt Iudah and Ephraim, beginning …
    With rule
    … hee commending the same to Lot before the Lorde, it so fell out, that BeniaminsBenjamin's place fell out to bee in that voide space betwixt Iudah and Ephraim, beginning …

    Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 217 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … iustifie our selues: they did afterward cōdemne thēselues, and whē it was found in BeniaminsBenjamin's sacke, they were worse apayed then they were before. Wel Beniamin must stay by …
    With rule
    … iustifie our selues: they did afterward cōdemne thēselues, and whē it was found in BeniaminsBenjamin's sacke, they were worse apayed then they were before. Wel Beniamin must stay by …

    William Burton · Davids Evidence · p. 43 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.