Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10300 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ioshuahsjoshua's

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

Puritas changed it: 82 times in 56 works
Consistency: 100% (82 of 82)
Reach if approved: ~86 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: joshua's
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 82 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (82 changes in 56 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 82)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… prayer is more available than fighting: Moses prayer in the mountaine, did more than IoshuahsJoshua's fighting in the vallies. If Noah, Daniel, and Iob stood before me (saith God …
With rule
… prayer is more available than fighting: Moses prayer in the mountaine, did more than IoshuahsJoshua's fighting in the vallies. If Noah, Daniel, and Iob stood before me (saith God …
John Preston · A Lifeless Life · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… then of zeale. 3. Some thinke that his zeale was herein, because they had in IoshuahsJoshua's time consened and deceiued the Elders of Israel, therefore he would be reuenged of …
With rule
… then of zeale. 3. Some thinke that his zeale was herein, because they had in IoshuahsJoshua's time consened and deceiued the Elders of Israel, therefore he would be reuenged of …
Andrew Willet · Harmony Upon 2 Samuel · p. 122 · Open in the reader
Printed
… word of coherence, with what went immediatly before, namely Israels discomfiture, the occasion of IoshuahsJoshua's discomfort.
With rule
… word of coherence, with what went immediatly before, namely Israels discomfiture, the occasion of IoshuahsJoshua's discomfort.
Henry Burton · Israels Fast · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… upon the earth; and Joſephus in his hyſtory of the Jewiſh Antiquities, ſets down IoſhuahsJoshua's prayer at large, theſe are ſome expresſions, Beyond all expectation, having received an overthrow …
With rule
… upon the earth; and Joſephus in his hyſtory of the Jewiſh Antiquities, ſets down IoſhuahsJoshua's prayer at large, theſe are ſome expresſions, Beyond all expectation, having received an overthrow …
Jeremiah Burroughs · An Exposition of Hosea 1-3 · p. 363 · Open in the reader
Printed
… beginning of the Chapter, the Elders and Officers of the Tribes are said, upon IoshuahsJoshua's summons, to have presented themselves there before the Lord, which speech useth to imply …
With rule
… beginning of the Chapter, the Elders and Officers of the Tribes are said, upon IoshuahsJoshua's summons, to have presented themselves there before the Lord, which speech useth to imply …
Joseph Mede · Discourses on Divers Texts of Scripture · p. 194 · Open in the reader
Printed
… how men will ſtand in and for the publike, who be the Calebs and IoſhuahsJoshua's that will goe on to the accompliſhment of reformation, againſt the Anakims, and who …
With rule
… how men will ſtand in and for the publike, who be the Calebs and IoſhuahsJoshua's that will goe on to the accompliſhment of reformation, againſt the Anakims, and who …
Stanley Gower · Things Now-A-Doing · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… us, yet his uſuall method hath been to make choice of ſome Moſes, ſome IoſhuahsJoshua's, Gideons, Davids, &c. for the preſervation of his Church, nay of Jeſus Chriſt for …
With rule
… us, yet his uſuall method hath been to make choice of ſome Moſes, ſome IoſhuahsJoshua's, Gideons, Davids, &c. for the preſervation of his Church, nay of Jeſus Chriſt for …
Samuel Kem · Sermon Before the Commissioners · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
IoſhuahsJoshua's obedience to the fore-mentioned charge being every way anſwerable thereto, is ſet downe,
With rule
IoſhuahsJoshua's obedience to the fore-mentioned charge being every way anſwerable thereto, is ſet downe,
William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 179 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.