Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10165 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cri'dcried

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

Puritas changed it: 86 times in 37 works
Consistency: 95.5% (86 of 90)
Reach if approved: ~95 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: cried
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 90 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (86 changes in 37 works, 95.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 86)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Therfore saith the Lord, They have not cri'dcried unto me with thir heart, when they howl'd upon thir beds. They returne, but …
With rule
Therfore saith the Lord, They have not cri'dcried unto me with thir heart, when they howl'd upon thir beds. They returne, but …
John Milton · Answer to a Book · p. 187 · Open in the reader
Printed
… had a mind to have the King's Head cut off? I ſay, Thoſe who cri'dcried up the Covenant till towards the year 1648 but then cri…d it down as …
With rule
… had a mind to have the King's Head cut off? I ſay, Thoſe who cri'dcried up the Covenant till towards the year 1648 but then cri…d it down as …
Samuel Rolle · Loyalty and Peace · p. 177 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the light of the natural conscience, as in Pilate, Mar. 15.10. who when natural conscience cri'dcried for the acquitment of an innocent person, yet he condemned him to death, for …
With rule
… the light of the natural conscience, as in Pilate, Mar. 15.10. who when natural conscience cri'dcried for the acquitment of an innocent person, yet he condemned him to death, for …
Christopher Blackwood · Some Pious Treatises · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
Will raiſe the loudeſt CRY that ever cri'dcried;
With rule
Will raiſe the loudeſt CRY that ever cri'dcried;
George Wither · A Poetic Frenzy · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… when the old terms, and expressions, whereby it hath been competently understood formerly, are cri'dcried down, and exploded. I say it is of dangerous consequence, because men are thereby …
With rule
… when the old terms, and expressions, whereby it hath been competently understood formerly, are cri'dcried down, and exploded. I say it is of dangerous consequence, because men are thereby …
Samuel Rolle · Justification Justified · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
She cri'dcried, O troop condemn'd,
With rule
She cri'dcried, O troop condemn'd,
Samuel Ward · The Wonders of the Lodestone · p. 262 · Open in the reader
Printed
verse 146 I in my trouble cri'dcried to thee, me safe do thou preserve;
With rule
verse 146 I in my trouble cri'dcried to thee, me safe do thou preserve;
Francis Rous · The Psalms of David in English Meter · p. 269 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Yearly, though yet they do not reſide there. It is theſe Curates that Vincentius cri'dcried out upon, when he ſaid, O what Obduration is there in the Church of …
With rule
… Yearly, though yet they do not reſide there. It is theſe Curates that Vincentius cri'dcried out upon, when he ſaid, O what Obduration is there in the Church of …
Jean Claude · Historical Defense of the Reformation · p. 129 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Garden of Zion B01751

Printed
Cri'dCried they are ſmitten down as at the firſt:
With rule
Cri'dCried they are ſmitten down as at the firſt:
Zacharie Boyd · The Garden of Zion · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
Cri'dCried with one voice, Now let us have a King;
With rule
Cri'dCried with one voice, Now let us have a King;
Zacharie Boyd · The Garden of Zion · p. 142 · Open in the reader
Printed
Cri'dCried Eliſha my father ſhall I ſmite?
With rule
Cri'dCried Eliſha my father ſhall I ſmite?
Zacharie Boyd · The Garden of Zion · p. 341 · Open in the reader