Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10138 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cainescain's

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

Puritas changed it: 108 times in 76 works
Consistency: 98.1% (108 of 110)
Reach if approved: ~116 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: cain's
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 110 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (108 changes in 76 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 108)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and gripings of the mind and inward parts are many, and marueilous bitter, as CainesCain's caſe declareth.
With rule
… and gripings of the mind and inward parts are many, and marueilous bitter, as CainesCain's caſe declareth.
John Dod · Exposition of Proverbs 13-14 · p. 133 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not unlawfull to heare the word preached in their aſſemblies. What you talke of CainesCain's murder, Iudas his Treachery, the good that comes by Schiſmes and Hereſies, is only …
With rule
… not unlawfull to heare the word preached in their aſſemblies. What you talke of CainesCain's murder, Iudas his Treachery, the good that comes by Schiſmes and Hereſies, is only …
John Ball · An Answer to Two Treatises of John Can · p. 131 · Open in the reader
Printed
… no mixture of hypocrites and unbeleevers in the Church. The Church was separated from CainesCain's seede, yet was there Idolatry, defection and wickednesse: in the Church, till God charged …
With rule
… no mixture of hypocrites and unbeleevers in the Church. The Church was separated from CainesCain's seede, yet was there Idolatry, defection and wickednesse: in the Church, till God charged …
Samuel Rutherford · Plea for Pauls Presbytery in Scotland · p. 113 · Open in the reader
Printed
… againste his brother, wee may easily vnderstande in this speach, two arguments to reproue CainesCain's enuie, the one of the person of God, the other of the person of …
With rule
… againste his brother, wee may easily vnderstande in this speach, two arguments to reproue CainesCain's enuie, the one of the person of God, the other of the person of …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 317 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of hys seede. And therefore our graunde mother Eue badde beware of maryinge wyth CainesCain's seede, for feas of fallyng from God to wickednes therby. And here I would …
With rule
… of hys seede. And therefore our graunde mother Eue badde beware of maryinge wyth CainesCain's seede, for feas of fallyng from God to wickednes therby. And here I would …
Hugh Latimer · A Most Faithful Sermon · Open in the reader
Printed
… had cast off the Lord, and therefore the Lord rejected him. The like was CainesCain's case, Gen. 4. His judgement was, to bee banish'd from the presence of the Lord …
With rule
… had cast off the Lord, and therefore the Lord rejected him. The like was CainesCain's case, Gen. 4. His judgement was, to bee banish'd from the presence of the Lord …
John Preston · The Golden Scepter Held Forth to the Humble · p. 280 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that God caſt him out of his preſence, and that was the height of CainesCain's miſery, ſo the Lord caſt off Saul from being King ouer Iſrael. As the …
With rule
… that God caſt him out of his preſence, and that was the height of CainesCain's miſery, ſo the Lord caſt off Saul from being King ouer Iſrael. As the …
Samuel Smith · Davids Repentance · p. 362 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it out to the very dregs. For presently after the murder committed, they haue CainesCain's fearefull marke stampt vpon them: The furies of conscience; and cries of blood, shal …
With rule
… it out to the very dregs. For presently after the murder committed, they haue CainesCain's fearefull marke stampt vpon them: The furies of conscience; and cries of blood, shal …
Robert Bolton · The State of True Happiness · p. 76 · 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.