Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10243 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fil'dfiled

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

Puritas changed it: 176 times in 106 works
Consistency: 98.3% (176 of 179)
Reach if approved: ~188 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: filled
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 179 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (176 changes in 106 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 176)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… at the dore of his beloved he ſtood and knock'd, till his head was fil'dfiled mith dew, and his locks with the drops of the night: But God puts …
With rule
… at the dore of his beloved he ſtood and knock'd, till his head was fil'dfiled mith dew, and his locks with the drops of the night: But God puts …
John Donne · Twenty-Six Sermons · p. 237 · Open in the reader
Printed
I wiſh this work had come into the world more fil'dfiled and poliſhed, and that it were ſo elaborate that none might diſlike it. But …
With rule
I wiſh this work had come into the world more fil'dfiled and poliſhed, and that it were ſo elaborate that none might diſlike it. But …
John Hickes · The Excellency of the Heavenly Substance · Open in the reader
Printed
… as much hurt the soul as great sins with their weight, greatest rivers are fil'dfiled by drops. D^r Feately. See Psal. 40. 12.
With rule
… as much hurt the soul as great sins with their weight, greatest rivers are fil'dfiled by drops. D^r Feately. See Psal. 40. 12.
Edward Leigh · Body of Divinity · p. 339 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Well inlightned Conſcience made upon this ſerious review and enquiry: The Reflection upon which fil'dfiled his Heart with Divine Conſolation. Before I proceed to the main point I intend …
With rule
… Well inlightned Conſcience made upon this ſerious review and enquiry: The Reflection upon which fil'dfiled his Heart with Divine Conſolation. Before I proceed to the main point I intend …
John Oakes · Blessed Pauls Trial and Triumph · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
Whom when she saw so fil'dfiled with monstrous spot,
With rule
Whom when she saw so fil'dfiled with monstrous spot,
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 166 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Turke. He is a moueable Prison, and his hands two Manacles hard to be fil'dfiled off. He is an occasioner of di…loyal thoughts in the Common-wealth, for …
With rule
… Turke. He is a moueable Prison, and his hands two Manacles hard to be fil'dfiled off. He is an occasioner of di…loyal thoughts in the Common-wealth, for …
John Earle · Micro-Cosmography · Open in the reader
Printed
… grace not properly for himſelf, but for the elect, the leſſer world. Chriſt was fil'dfiled that he might fill, He received gifts for men.
With rule
… grace not properly for himſelf, but for the elect, the leſſer world. Chriſt was fil'dfiled that he might fill, He received gifts for men.
William Bagshawe · Living Water · p. 101 · Open in the reader
Printed
Beſides my ſailes thus fil'dfiled with motion ſtrong,
With rule
Beſides my ſailes thus fil'dfiled with motion ſtrong,
Edward Calver · Divine Passions Piously and Pathetically Expressed · p. 42 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

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