Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10253 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

gall'dgalled

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

Puritas changed it: 79 times in 67 works
Consistency: 97.5% (79 of 81)
Reach if approved: ~85 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: galled
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 81 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (79 changes in 67 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 79)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the pro… horſe, which is not only ridden and managed, but laſh't and ſpur-gall'dgalled by his rider. And whereas man ſhould be as a tree inverſed, whoſe root …
With rule
… the pro… horſe, which is not only ridden and managed, but laſh't and ſpur-gall'dgalled by his rider. And whereas man ſhould be as a tree inverſed, whoſe root …
Samuel Crook · Divine Characters in Two Parts · p. 153 · Open in the reader
Printed
… illum non proprium peccatum, ſed fratris proſperitas, ſaith Theodoret, 'twas his Brothers happineſs that gall'dgalled him. Preſidents hereof Divine and Humane, we may flye and read; Jacob and Eſau …
With rule
… illum non proprium peccatum, ſed fratris proſperitas, ſaith Theodoret, 'twas his Brothers happineſs that gall'dgalled him. Preſidents hereof Divine and Humane, we may flye and read; Jacob and Eſau …
John Godolphin · The Holy Limbeck(1) · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
Neither will the natural Popery that is in others doe it. Men are gall'dgalled with the Guilt of a Sin, that hath prevailed over them: they instantly promise …
With rule
Neither will the natural Popery that is in others doe it. Men are gall'dgalled with the Guilt of a Sin, that hath prevailed over them: they instantly promise …
John Owen · Of the Mortification of sin in Believers · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… do him publike honour in that ſort, and that by his own direction, this gall'dgalled him and grieved him above meaſure; ſo bladder-like is the foul of an …
With rule
… do him publike honour in that ſort, and that by his own direction, this gall'dgalled him and grieved him above meaſure; ſo bladder-like is the foul of an …
John Trapp · Commentary on Ezra Nehemiah Ester Job and Psalms · p. 159 · Open in the reader
Printed
… toward the stilling of their Consciences, than as a saddle …f gold to a gall'dgalled horse, or a draught of poyson to quench a mans thirst.
With rule
… toward the stilling of their Consciences, than as a saddle …f gold to a gall'dgalled horse, or a draught of poyson to quench a mans thirst.
Richard Younge · Carnal Reason · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… offenſive to uſe the ſimilitude of Plutarch) in an hot ſummers day, to a gall'dgalled back, thence to ſuck out filth and corruption. And is it a wonder that …
With rule
… offenſive to uſe the ſimilitude of Plutarch) in an hot ſummers day, to a gall'dgalled back, thence to ſuck out filth and corruption. And is it a wonder that …
James Cranford · The Mischief Which Heresies Do · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
With words approbr'ous; for it gall'dgalled him ſhrewdly,
With rule
With words approbr'ous; for it gall'dgalled him ſhrewdly,
George Wither · The Great Assizes · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… into a wit, and loudly saies there neither is or can be one. Conscience gall'dgalled with perpetual ill usage contracts a callows hardness, and becomes utterly insensible; and by …
With rule
… into a wit, and loudly saies there neither is or can be one. Conscience gall'dgalled with perpetual ill usage contracts a callows hardness, and becomes utterly insensible; and by …
Richard Allestree · Forty Sermons · p. 270 · 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.