Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10181 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

decay'ddecayed

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

Puritas changed it: 123 times in 90 works
Consistency: 95.3% (123 of 129)
Reach if approved: ~136 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: decayed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 129 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (123 changes in 90 works, 95.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 123)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Whoſe meanes, or patrimony is decay'ddecayed
With rule
Whoſe meanes, or patrimony is decay'ddecayed
Edward Calver · Passion and Discretion in Youth and Age · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Chronicle, and Hollingſhead, but I ſhall take it out of Rich. Verſtegan's Reſtitution of decay'ddecayed Intelligence, c. 5. p. 127. As this Lady Rowena was very beautiful, ſo was ſhe of …
With rule
… Chronicle, and Hollingſhead, but I ſhall take it out of Rich. Verſtegan's Reſtitution of decay'ddecayed Intelligence, c. 5. p. 127. As this Lady Rowena was very beautiful, ſo was ſhe of …
Charles Morton · The Great Evil of Health Drinking · p. 61 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and cloſe with him being offered as an husband, as the only way for decay'ddecayed fortunes, ſo ſhall I be reſtored in blond and repaired in mine eſtate. Thus …
With rule
… and cloſe with him being offered as an husband, as the only way for decay'ddecayed fortunes, ſo ſhall I be reſtored in blond and repaired in mine eſtate. Thus …
Robert Harris · Several Sermons · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with Edric how to make him away; who told him of one Ethelward a decay'ddecayed Nobleman, likelieſt to do the work. Ethelward ſent for, and tempted by the King …
With rule
… with Edric how to make him away; who told him of one Ethelward a decay'ddecayed Nobleman, likelieſt to do the work. Ethelward ſent for, and tempted by the King …
John Milton · The History of Britain · p. 267 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his Apostles, hath been in the endeavouring the Reformation of back sliding or spiritually decay'ddecayed Churches. These are the two Witnesses which in all Ages have Prophesied in Sackcloth …
With rule
… his Apostles, hath been in the endeavouring the Reformation of back sliding or spiritually decay'ddecayed Churches. These are the two Witnesses which in all Ages have Prophesied in Sackcloth …
John Owen · Testimony Unto the Goodness and Severity of God · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… time of Ammeric, i. e. about Anno Dom. 566. found both Religion and Learning much decay'ddecayed there, and that he built many Churches and Monasteries, and brought up many Noble …
With rule
… time of Ammeric, i. e. about Anno Dom. 566. found both Religion and Learning much decay'ddecayed there, and that he built many Churches and Monasteries, and brought up many Noble …
Edward Stillingfleet · The Antiquities of the British Churches · p. 205 · Open in the reader
Printed
For a Crown that ne're decay'ddecayed;
With rule
For a Crown that ne're decay'ddecayed;
Thomas Wadsworth · Remains · p. 178 · Open in the reader
Printed
… His dead men ſhall live: who can open his Peoples graves, and revive his decay'ddecayed Intereſt, and cauſe a Nation to bring forth in a day: and Overturn, Overturn …
With rule
… His dead men ſhall live: who can open his Peoples graves, and revive his decay'ddecayed Intereſt, and cauſe a Nation to bring forth in a day: and Overturn, Overturn …
Bartholomew Ashwood · The Best Treasure · p. 43 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Complete and Compendious Church History A52804

Printed
… ſo far from Court as many Hundred Miles, to Dwell in a Tatter'd and Decay'dDecayed City, among a poor People there to Drudge like a Day-Labourer, and that …
With rule
… ſo far from Court as many Hundred Miles, to Dwell in a Tatter'd and Decay'dDecayed City, among a poor People there to Drudge like a Day-Labourer, and that …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 256 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Ecclesiastes A62085

Printed
… and Back-sliding-Steps. The Spiritual Man, under the Holy Anointing, is, to the Decay'dDecayed, Old, Gray-headed, Crucified natural, the fresh Oyl, David Pray'd for (Psal. 71. 9. 18.) that gives …
With rule
… and Back-sliding-Steps. The Spiritual Man, under the Holy Anointing, is, to the Decay'dDecayed, Old, Gray-headed, Crucified natural, the fresh Oyl, David Pray'd for (Psal. 71. 9. 18.) that gives …
George Sikes · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 147 · Open in the reader