Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10347 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

melchisedechsmelchizedek's

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

Puritas changed it: 71 times in 31 works
Consistency: 98.6% (71 of 72)
Reach if approved: ~76 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: melchisedech's
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 72 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (71 changes in 31 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 71)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… moſt abſurd, & monſtrous, ſo is that alſo, that you ſhould be prieſts according to MelchiſedechsMelchizedek's order. For then further ought you to be eternall, without beginning or ending of …
With rule
… moſt abſurd, & monſtrous, ſo is that alſo, that you ſhould be prieſts according to MelchiſedechsMelchizedek's order. For then further ought you to be eternall, without beginning or ending of …
William Whitaker · Answer to Reynolds Book · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
As for his teſtimonies out of the fathers, for proofe of MelchiſedechsMelchizedek's offering of bread and wine to God in ſacrifice, becauſe I purpoſe eſpecially to …
With rule
As for his teſtimonies out of the fathers, for proofe of MelchiſedechsMelchizedek's offering of bread and wine to God in ſacrifice, becauſe I purpoſe eſpecially to …
Francis Bunny · Truth and Falsehood · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that the Apoſtle ſaint Paule, in his Epiſtle to the Hebrues, making mention of MelchiſedechsMelchizedek's being without father and mother: doth referre it vnto Chriſt, and by Chriſt, to …
With rule
… that the Apoſtle ſaint Paule, in his Epiſtle to the Hebrues, making mention of MelchiſedechsMelchizedek's being without father and mother: doth referre it vnto Chriſt, and by Chriſt, to …
Robert Crowley · The Subtle Sophistry of Watsons Sermons before Queen Mary · p. 72 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Kingdom; His Prieſthood was not carnal, ſuch as Aarons was; but ſpiritual, ſuch as MelchiſedechsMelchizedek's was: Like as was his Prieſthood, ſo was his Kingdom. Thoſe whom God had …
With rule
… Kingdom; His Prieſthood was not carnal, ſuch as Aarons was; but ſpiritual, ſuch as MelchiſedechsMelchizedek's was: Like as was his Prieſthood, ſo was his Kingdom. Thoſe whom God had …
John Hacket · A Century of Sermons · p. 357 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Priest-hood? tell me, is Christs Priest-hood les…e deserving than Aarons or MelchisedechsMelchizedek's, or hath he lost his right, or hath Christ lesse care of the Ministers …
With rule
… Priest-hood? tell me, is Christs Priest-hood les…e deserving than Aarons or MelchisedechsMelchizedek's, or hath he lost his right, or hath Christ lesse care of the Ministers …
Ephraim Pagitt · Heresiography · p. 156 · Open in the reader
Printed
… psalme, and the Apostle to the Hebrues doe sufficiently declare, that the excellencie of MelchisedechsMelchizedek's order doth consiste in this, that he was both a Kinge and a Priest …
With rule
… psalme, and the Apostle to the Hebrues doe sufficiently declare, that the excellencie of MelchisedechsMelchizedek's order doth consiste in this, that he was both a Kinge and a Priest …
William Fulke · Three Pillars and Arch-patriarchs of the Popish Synagogues · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Law, that binds alſo all Chriſtians to pay their Tithes towards the maintenance of MelchiſedechsMelchizedek's prieſthood which endures for ever. Pray let me ſee your Anſwer to this.
With rule
… Law, that binds alſo all Chriſtians to pay their Tithes towards the maintenance of MelchiſedechsMelchizedek's prieſthood which endures for ever. Pray let me ſee your Anſwer to this.
Thomas Thache · Gainsayer Convinced · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the first birth, then we of regeneration and the new birth? because the Priest MelchisedechsMelchizedek's style was, without father or mother, shall ours be, without son or daughter? I …
With rule
… the first birth, then we of regeneration and the new birth? because the Priest MelchisedechsMelchizedek's style was, without father or mother, shall ours be, without son or daughter? I …
John Jackson · The Worthy Churchman · p. 2 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Sermons Preached on Romans 8 A46354

Printed
… offering to God. JOSEPHƲS carries this bringing of bread and wine, no higher than MELCHISEDECHSMELCHIZEDEK'S kindneſs or hoſpitality to ABRAHAM and his weary Souldiers.
With rule
… offering to God. JOSEPHƲS carries this bringing of bread and wine, no higher than MELCHISEDECHSMELCHIZEDEK'S kindneſs or hoſpitality to ABRAHAM and his weary Souldiers.
Thomas Jacombe · Sermons Preached on Romans 8 · p. 534 · Open in the reader