Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10290 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

incurr'dincur'd

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

Puritas changed it: 83 times in 65 works
Consistency: 97.6% (83 of 85)
Reach if approved: ~89 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: incurred
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 85 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (83 changes in 65 works, 97.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 83)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… contemne their perſons, callings, cōmands; for ſo a greater, & more pernicious ſcandall will be incurr'dincur'd, thā was declin'd. But we are not upon occurrence of any ſcandall whatſoever, taken …
With rule
… contemne their perſons, callings, cōmands; for ſo a greater, & more pernicious ſcandall will be incurr'dincur'd, thā was declin'd. But we are not upon occurrence of any ſcandall whatſoever, taken …
Henry Jeanes · Concerning a Christians Careful Abstinence from All Appearance of Evil · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Dis-obedience. He was ingaged in a deep Revolture with the Apostate Spirits, and incurr'dincur'd the Sentence of a double Death, both of the Body and of the Soul …
With rule
… Dis-obedience. He was ingaged in a deep Revolture with the Apostate Spirits, and incurr'dincur'd the Sentence of a double Death, both of the Body and of the Soul …
William Bates · Spiritual Perfection Unfolded and Enforced from 2 Corinthians 7:1 · p. 224 · Open in the reader
Printed
The Angels were not maried so; they incurr'dincur'd an irreparable Divorce from God, and are separated for ever, and I shall be …
With rule
The Angels were not maried so; they incurr'dincur'd an irreparable Divorce from God, and are separated for ever, and I shall be …
John Donne · Fifty Sermons · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was ſo infamous for many Martyrdoms. Well, this is that City which had ſo incurr'dincur'd the anger of the Lord, that he ſuffered it to fill up the meaſure …
With rule
… was ſo infamous for many Martyrdoms. Well, this is that City which had ſo incurr'dincur'd the anger of the Lord, that he ſuffered it to fill up the meaſure …
John Hacket · A Century of Sermons · p. 440 · Open in the reader
Printed
For they are necessarily incident to all men; they have been incurr'dincur'd by his best servants, but were never looked upon to be of that provoking …
With rule
For they are necessarily incident to all men; they have been incurr'dincur'd by his best servants, but were never looked upon to be of that provoking …
John Kettlewell · The Measures of Christian Obedience · p. 547 · Open in the reader
Printed
… manner of Misery in this Life, and the next. Now by the Fall we incurr'dincur'd this Penalty, and therefore as lost and undone Creatures, we run to God's Mercy …
With rule
… manner of Misery in this Life, and the next. Now by the Fall we incurr'dincur'd this Penalty, and therefore as lost and undone Creatures, we run to God's Mercy …
Thomas Manton · Practical Exposition of the Lords Prayer · p. 343 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is made thereby: for as by the ſin of man there was a curſe incurr'dincur'd, and an inheritance forfeited; ſo in the redemption wrought by Chriſt, there muſt be …
With rule
… is made thereby: for as by the ſin of man there was a curſe incurr'dincur'd, and an inheritance forfeited; ſo in the redemption wrought by Chriſt, there muſt be …
William Strong · A Discourse of the Two Covenants · p. 157 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Fear, and Diſtruſt, then are others. Penetrating and quick reſentments of danger, once certainly incurr'dincur'd, render ſome weak ſpirits diſtruſtful of their ſafety a long time after, be it …
With rule
… Fear, and Diſtruſt, then are others. Penetrating and quick reſentments of danger, once certainly incurr'dincur'd, render ſome weak ſpirits diſtruſtful of their ſafety a long time after, be it …
John Martin · Mary Magdalenes Tears Wiped Off · p. 5 · 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.