Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10210 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

edg'dedge'd

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

Puritas changed it: 61 times in 46 works
Consistency: 96.8% (61 of 63)
Reach if approved: ~66 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: edged
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 63 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (61 changes in 46 works, 96.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 61)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Souls (as they are most like to do that handle so awkardly such an edg'dedge'd tool) and render God their most avowed enemy. The Religion then which hath no …
With rule
… Souls (as they are most like to do that handle so awkardly such an edg'dedge'd tool) and render God their most avowed enemy. The Religion then which hath no …
John Howe · Delighting in God · p. 198 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Prey to foreign Princes. In a word, all Crowns are lin'd with Cares, and edg'dedge'd with Fears, and perhaps an ordinary Felt ſits eaſier upon the Head. At beſt …
With rule
… Prey to foreign Princes. In a word, all Crowns are lin'd with Cares, and edg'dedge'd with Fears, and perhaps an ordinary Felt ſits eaſier upon the Head. At beſt …
Samuel Shaw · Vain Man · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Life so deeply, and so hardly escaped with it. 'Twas his inhuman Treatment which edg'dedge'd and animated his Son; and the revenge of his Fathers Blood may be presum'd …
With rule
… Life so deeply, and so hardly escaped with it. 'Twas his inhuman Treatment which edg'dedge'd and animated his Son; and the revenge of his Fathers Blood may be presum'd …
John Tutchin · A New Martyrology · p. 375 · Open in the reader
Printed
Of two-edg'dedge'd words, or whatſoever wrong
With rule
Of two-edg'dedge'd words, or whatſoever wrong
John Donne · Poems · p. 386 · Open in the reader
Printed
… who ſo ſtrike every where, that indeed they ſtrike no where; but the two edg'dedge'd ſword of the word they muſt ſheath in the bowells of ſinners, and lay …
With rule
… who ſo ſtrike every where, that indeed they ſtrike no where; but the two edg'dedge'd ſword of the word they muſt ſheath in the bowells of ſinners, and lay …
William Jenkyn · Exposition of Jude 2 · p. 654 · Open in the reader
Printed
The two edg'dedge'd Sword that keeps from violence,
With rule
The two edg'dedge'd Sword that keeps from violence,
Robert Wild · Successful March of the Lord General · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this case, for here commonly Wit is the Lictor, which is arm'd with an edg'dedge'd tool, and leaves scars behind it. The reproch of rage and fury seem to …
With rule
… this case, for here commonly Wit is the Lictor, which is arm'd with an edg'dedge'd tool, and leaves scars behind it. The reproch of rage and fury seem to …
Richard Allestree · The Government of the Tongue · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Agent makes a vaſt difference, There is a great difference between a puniſhment edg'dedge'd with a a Princes wrath, and thoſe which are ſweetened with a Fathers affection …
With rule
… the Agent makes a vaſt difference, There is a great difference between a puniſhment edg'dedge'd with a a Princes wrath, and thoſe which are ſweetened with a Fathers affection …
Stephen Charnock · A Supplement to the Several Discourses Upon Various Divine Subjects · p. 80 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

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