Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10341 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

marr'dmar'd

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

Puritas changed it: 215 times in 135 works
Consistency: 93.4% (215 of 230)
Reach if approved: ~242 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: marred
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 230 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: mar (1)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (215 changes in 135 works, 93.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 215)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Your Play were marr'dmar'd now in the latter Scene;
With rule
Your Play were marr'dmar'd now in the latter Scene;
Daniel Cudmore · The History of Joseph · p. 72 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Other Stones may drop, or be drove out of the Building, or be greatly marr'dmar'd, defac'd and spoil'd.
With rule
… Other Stones may drop, or be drove out of the Building, or be greatly marr'dmar'd, defac'd and spoil'd.
Thomas De Laune · A Key to Open Scripture Metaphors · p. 248 · Open in the reader
Printed
… at a losse. Treason, like Pope Adrian, may be choak'd with a flie, and marr'dmar'd with the least unexpected casualtie. Though Laurence was at Church, Julian was absent. And …
With rule
… at a losse. Treason, like Pope Adrian, may be choak'd with a flie, and marr'dmar'd with the least unexpected casualtie. Though Laurence was at Church, Julian was absent. And …
Thomas Fuller · The Holy State · p. 423 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and precious amongst Men unto this day, had not the dead fly corrupted and marr'dmar'd the savour of the fragrant oyntment.
With rule
… and precious amongst Men unto this day, had not the dead fly corrupted and marr'dmar'd the savour of the fragrant oyntment.
Jonathan Hanmer · A View of Antiquity Presented · p. 122 · Open in the reader
Printed
God's Image marr'dmar'd, his Soul deprav'd,
With rule
God's Image marr'dmar'd, his Soul deprav'd,
Benjamin Keach · Spiritual Melody · p. 328 · Open in the reader
Printed
But late his keyes are marr'dmar'd, or broken quite:
With rule
But late his keyes are marr'dmar'd, or broken quite:
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 100 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and your Eternity, and by that venture you are made or elſe you are marr'dmar'd to Eternity; look about you, examine, Is death like to prove gain to you …
With rule
… and your Eternity, and by that venture you are made or elſe you are marr'dmar'd to Eternity; look about you, examine, Is death like to prove gain to you …
Timothy Armitage · Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions · p. 460 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they had not believed and lived ſo giddily. I have often ſeen mens reaſon marr'dmar'd with a cup or two too much, but ſeldom by too little. And too …
With rule
… they had not believed and lived ſo giddily. I have often ſeen mens reaſon marr'dmar'd with a cup or two too much, but ſeldom by too little. And too …
Richard Baxter · A Treatise of Self-Denial · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

11 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 are listed here. 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Complete and Compendious Church History A52804

Printed
… yea, and (as ſome think) with the Foul Diſeaſe, and likewiſe with Mice, that Marr'dMar'd their Land, (as the Blind Piles Marr'dMar'd themſelves.) Their Dagon could not drive ſo …
With rule
… yea, and (as ſome think) with the Foul Diſeaſe, and likewiſe with Mice, that Marr'dMar'd their Land, (as the Blind Piles Marr'dMar'd themſelves.) Their Dagon could not drive ſo …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 122 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Foul Diſeaſe, and likewiſe with Mice, that Marr'dMar'd their Land, (as the Blind Piles Marr'dMar'd themſelves.) Their Dagon could not drive ſo much as a poor Mouſe from them …
With rule
… Foul Diſeaſe, and likewiſe with Mice, that Marr'dMar'd their Land, (as the Blind Piles Marr'dMar'd themſelves.) Their Dagon could not drive ſo much as a poor Mouſe from them …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 122 · Open in the reader

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

Printed
… mingled among the Sincere Milk of the Word of God) had like to have Marr'dMar'd All: This unhappy Queſtion (ſtarted by that Do-evil, contracted, the Devil) bred no …
With rule
… mingled among the Sincere Milk of the Word of God) had like to have Marr'dMar'd All: This unhappy Queſtion (ſtarted by that Do-evil, contracted, the Devil) bred no …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 415 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Ecclesiastes A62085

Printed
… House of God; Hos. 9. 7, 8. They are a Spectacle of Scorn and Derision, in their Marr'dMar'd naturals, to the World, all Angels and Men, in the Flourish and Glory of …
With rule
… House of God; Hos. 9. 7, 8. They are a Spectacle of Scorn and Derision, in their Marr'dMar'd naturals, to the World, all Angels and Men, in the Flourish and Glory of …
George Sikes · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 126 · Open in the reader
Printed
… never to be done away. He was content, with Christ, to have his Visage Marr'dMar'd, his fading Law-Life and Glory, in the restor'd Image of the earthy, or …
With rule
… never to be done away. He was content, with Christ, to have his Visage Marr'dMar'd, his fading Law-Life and Glory, in the restor'd Image of the earthy, or …
George Sikes · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 164 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Holy flesh. He had more of it to Marre, and so, was it more Marr'dMar'd in him, then it can be Marr'dMar'd in any other Man. And he Marr'dMar'd …
With rule
… Holy flesh. He had more of it to Marre, and so, was it more Marr'dMar'd in him, then it can be Marr'dMar'd in any other Man. And he Marr'dMar'd …
George Sikes · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 164 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to Marre, and so, was it more Marr'dMar'd in him, then it can be Marr'dMar'd in any other Man. And he Marr'dMar'd it, to some other ends and purposes …
With rule
… to Marre, and so, was it more Marr'dMar'd in him, then it can be Marr'dMar'd in any other Man. And he Marr'dMar'd it, to some other ends and purposes …
George Sikes · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 164 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Man. And he Marr'dMar'd it, to some other ends and purposes, then it is Marr'dMar'd in his Saints and followers. He answer'd for the Sins of Mankind, aton'd or …
With rule
… Man. And he Marr'dMar'd it, to some other ends and purposes, then it is Marr'dMar'd in his Saints and followers. He answer'd for the Sins of Mankind, aton'd or …
George Sikes · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 164 · Open in the reader