Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10140 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

car'dcared

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

Puritas changed it: 74 times in 62 works
Consistency: 100% (74 of 74)
Reach if approved: ~78 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: cared
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 74 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (74 changes in 62 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 74)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… before us, acknowledgeth that it was ſo with him. In his mad paſſions he car'dcared not who he did ſtrike or hurt. It is not good for them that …
With rule
… before us, acknowledgeth that it was ſo with him. In his mad paſſions he car'dcared not who he did ſtrike or hurt. It is not good for them that …
Increase Mather · Sermon at Execution of a Man Found Guilty of Murder · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… others, and have by a ſtrange and ſecret diſpoſition of Divine providence been unexpectedly car'dcared and provided for; and that, as they have all the reaſon in the world …
With rule
… others, and have by a ſtrange and ſecret diſpoſition of Divine providence been unexpectedly car'dcared and provided for; and that, as they have all the reaſon in the world …
John Tillotson · Sermons and Discourses Volume 1 · p. 167 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wild Liberty that they ſo much affected. Laſtly, Sheep are better lookt after and car'dcared for in the Flock, than when ſtragling ſingly, and looſely; when they are in …
With rule
… wild Liberty that they ſo much affected. Laſtly, Sheep are better lookt after and car'dcared for in the Flock, than when ſtragling ſingly, and looſely; when they are in …
James Wood · Shepherdy Spiritualized · p. 196 · Open in the reader
Printed
And car'dcared not who he gul'd, or did beguile,
With rule
And car'dcared not who he gul'd, or did beguile,
George Wither · The Great Assizes · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Experience of the Work of Converſion in our own Souls. If we have not car'dcared for our own Souls, how ſhall we for the Souls of others! If we …
With rule
… Experience of the Work of Converſion in our own Souls. If we have not car'dcared for our own Souls, how ſhall we for the Souls of others! If we …
Benjamin Colman · Sermon for the Reformation of Manners · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
Nor euer car'dcared I, for vncleanlinesse.
With rule
Nor euer car'dcared I, for vncleanlinesse.
George Wither · Withers Motto · Open in the reader
Printed
… world was dead to him; the world and Paul were well agreed; the world car'dcared not a pin for Paul, and Paul cared not a ſtraw for the world …
With rule
… world was dead to him; the world and Paul were well agreed; the world car'dcared not a pin for Paul, and Paul cared not a ſtraw for the world …
Thomas Brooks · An Ark for All Gods Noahs · p. 305 · Open in the reader
Printed
And for thee car'dcared, and thee upheld.
With rule
And for thee car'dcared, and thee upheld.
John Griffith · Some Prison Meditations · p. 68 · 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.