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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10185 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

deferr'ddefer'd

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

Puritas changed it
173 times in 118 works
Consistency
99.4% (173 of 174)
Reach if approved
~183 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: deferred
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
174 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (173 changes in 118 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 173)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … him such an end for his opposition to the King, he would not have deferr'ddefer'd to punish him till then when of an Enemy he was chang'd to be …
    With rule
    … him such an end for his opposition to the King, he would not have deferr'ddefer'd to punish him till then when of an Enemy he was chang'd to be …

    John Milton · Answer to a Book · p. 70 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    29. What is deferr'ddefer'd is not auferr'd.
    With rule
    29. What is deferr'ddefer'd is not auferr'd.

    John Owen · Latin Epigrams Englished · p. 175 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … upon another title, as the Son of God: but the receiving of it was deferr'ddefer'd by dispensation for a time. First, He must redeem us, and then Reign. The …
    With rule
    … upon another title, as the Son of God: but the receiving of it was deferr'ddefer'd by dispensation for a time. First, He must redeem us, and then Reign. The …

    William Bates · The Harmony of the Divine Attributes in Mans Redemption · p. 275 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … not ſtay till Samuel came, when Samuel had appointed a time to come, he deferr'ddefer'd it to the laſt minute, and Saul was in a great ſtrait, he tarry'd …
    With rule
    … not ſtay till Samuel came, when Samuel had appointed a time to come, he deferr'ddefer'd it to the laſt minute, and Saul was in a great ſtrait, he tarry'd …

    Jeremiah Burroughs · Gospel Remission · p. 141 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … in the grave, I ſhall not be capable of remedy, if my remedy be deferr'ddefer'd: it is too late to give a man a cordial when he is dead …
    With rule
    … in the grave, I ſhall not be capable of remedy, if my remedy be deferr'ddefer'd: it is too late to give a man a cordial when he is dead …

    Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 4-7 · p. 612 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … gone, wickedneſs grew bold and irreſiſtible, and the Captivity ſo often threatned, ſo long deferr'ddefer'd came on amaine, which at laſt ſwept them away like an univerſal floud. When …
    With rule
    … gone, wickedneſs grew bold and irreſiſtible, and the Captivity ſo often threatned, ſo long deferr'ddefer'd came on amaine, which at laſt ſwept them away like an univerſal floud. When …

    Daniel Greenwood · Two Sermons · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Maladies, easily, and by speaking a word, in any former time? Why was it deferr'ddefer'd to this time? Or why hath not such a course been kept afoot ever …
    With rule
    … Maladies, easily, and by speaking a word, in any former time? Why was it deferr'ddefer'd to this time? Or why hath not such a course been kept afoot ever …

    John Howe · Funeral Sermon for Esther Sampson · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    A double enquiry here will be made: As 1. if this was deferr'ddefer'd ſo long what then became of thoſe who lib'd and dy'd before Chriſt was …
    With rule
    A double enquiry here will be made: As 1. if this was deferr'ddefer'd ſo long what then became of thoſe who lib'd and dy'd before Chriſt was …

    Thomas Jacombe · Sermons Preached on Romans 8 · p. 397 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.