Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10194 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

discourag'ddiscouraged

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

Puritas changed it: 80 times in 61 works
Consistency: 86.9% (80 of 92)
Reach if approved: ~97 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: discouraged
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 92 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (80 changes in 61 works, 86.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 80)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… were accompliſht, our Brethren come in, and ingaged for, and with us, the enemy diſcourag'ddiscouraged thereby and brought low; in a word, when the living creature of carnall intereſt …
With rule
… were accompliſht, our Brethren come in, and ingaged for, and with us, the enemy diſcourag'ddiscouraged thereby and brought low; in a word, when the living creature of carnall intereſt …
William Jenkyn · Reformations Remora · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… have you given Diligence to comply with the Terms? Not objecting against them, nor discourag'ddiscouraged by any Difficulties in the way. &c.
With rule
… have you given Diligence to comply with the Terms? Not objecting against them, nor discourag'ddiscouraged by any Difficulties in the way. &c.
Thomas Foxcroft · The Day of a Godly Mans Death Better than the Day of his Birth · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
Leſt, therefore, you diſcourag'ddiscouraged grow,
With rule
Leſt, therefore, you diſcourag'ddiscouraged grow,
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Precepts. By the solemn and frequent renewing our Vows of Obedience, the Tempter is discourag'ddiscouraged, and flyes from us. Let us every Morning next our Hearts, resolve to walk …
With rule
… Precepts. By the solemn and frequent renewing our Vows of Obedience, the Tempter is discourag'ddiscouraged, and flyes from us. Let us every Morning next our Hearts, resolve to walk …
William Bates · Spiritual Perfection Unfolded and Enforced from 2 Corinthians 7:1 · p. 416 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is ſolaced with Hope: But he that is not ſtroak'd with good Words, is diſcourag'ddiscouraged for ever.
With rule
… is ſolaced with Hope: But he that is not ſtroak'd with good Words, is diſcourag'ddiscouraged for ever.
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 144 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the hoſt. The Engliſh were in a ſtreit diſadvantagious place, ſo that many diſcourag'ddiscouraged with thir ill ordering, ſcarſe having room where to ſtand, ſlip'd away before the …
With rule
… of the hoſt. The Engliſh were in a ſtreit diſadvantagious place, ſo that many diſcourag'ddiscouraged with thir ill ordering, ſcarſe having room where to ſtand, ſlip'd away before the …
John Milton · The History of Britain · p. 299 · Open in the reader
Printed
Be not discourag'ddiscouraged, God will not despise
With rule
Be not discourag'ddiscouraged, God will not despise
Samuel Slater · Poems in Two Parts · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… others? For this take a double Reaſ. 1. That he might not be diſmay'd or diſcourag'ddiscouraged by it. 2. That he might be awakned, quickned, animated, to be ſo much the …
With rule
… others? For this take a double Reaſ. 1. That he might not be diſmay'd or diſcourag'ddiscouraged by it. 2. That he might be awakned, quickned, animated, to be ſo much the …
John Brinsley · An Antidote Against the Poisonous Weeds of Heretical Blasphemies · p. 49 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 10 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Emblems Ancient and Modern A15631

Printed
Diſcourag'dDiscouraged be not, though thou art purſu'd
With rule
Diſcourag'dDiscouraged be not, though thou art purſu'd
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 81 · Open in the reader

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

Printed
Notewel. Fifthly, When the Wiſemen found not Chriſt at great Jeruſalem, They Depart not Diſcourag'dDiscouraged, but ſeek him at little Bethlehem, where they find him in a poor ſtate …
With rule
Notewel. Fifthly, When the Wiſemen found not Chriſt at great Jeruſalem, They Depart not Diſcourag'dDiscouraged, but ſeek him at little Bethlehem, where they find him in a poor ſtate …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 19 · Open in the reader