Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10352 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

micahsmicah's

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

Puritas changed it: 68 times in 48 works
Consistency: 100% (68 of 68)
Reach if approved: ~71 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 68 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (68 changes in 48 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 68)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… fault to that Levite, who went ſeeking a place to ſojourn in Judg. 17. in MicahsMicah's houſe) ſeemeth to inſinuate that there hath been, and might have been, ſomewhat of …
With rule
… fault to that Levite, who went ſeeking a place to ſojourn in Judg. 17. in MicahsMicah's houſe) ſeemeth to inſinuate that there hath been, and might have been, ſomewhat of …
James Durham · The Law Unsealed · p. 142 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thou from everlasting, O Lord my God, O Rock God. This is the Prophet MicahsMicah's Dialect (its sweet to observe the harmonious breathings of the Spirit in several Prophets …
With rule
… thou from everlasting, O Lord my God, O Rock God. This is the Prophet MicahsMicah's Dialect (its sweet to observe the harmonious breathings of the Spirit in several Prophets …
Thomas Hill · The Spring of Strengthening Grace · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Leaner to fatter Benefices, like the former Levite, from the poor Chaplain-ship of MicahsMicah's family, to the more rich and eminent Devotion of a Tribe of Dan, just …
With rule
… Leaner to fatter Benefices, like the former Levite, from the poor Chaplain-ship of MicahsMicah's family, to the more rich and eminent Devotion of a Tribe of Dan, just …
Roger Williams · The Hirelings Ministry None of Christs · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
This clause is farre further from MicahsMicah's Text then the other, for whereas here is a very strong and Emphaticall negation …
With rule
This clause is farre further from MicahsMicah's Text then the other, for whereas here is a very strong and Emphaticall negation …
John Lightfoot · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Idols Prieſt. 2ly. [b] As the occaſion of the Danites plundring and taking away MicahsMicah's Idol god, and ſetting up his graven Image in the Tribe of Dan, and …
With rule
… Idols Prieſt. 2ly. [b] As the occaſion of the Danites plundring and taking away MicahsMicah's Idol god, and ſetting up his graven Image in the Tribe of Dan, and …
William Prynne · Chronological History of Popes Intolerable Usurpations · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſinner will at no hand abide it; ſuch words ſound in his eares like MicahsMicah's in Ahabs, neuer good. Herein they differ from the godly, and leaue them alone …
With rule
… ſinner will at no hand abide it; ſuch words ſound in his eares like MicahsMicah's in Ahabs, neuer good. Herein they differ from the godly, and leaue them alone …
Thomas Granger · The Application of Scripture · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
Where you shall perish; and poore MicahsMicah's word,
With rule
Where you shall perish; and poore MicahsMicah's word,
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · p. 266 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fathers of families, and bound himſelfe to performe to thoſe of their loines in MicahsMicah's dayes long after, Mica. 7. 20. neither was it other then the covenant of grace, thus …
With rule
… fathers of families, and bound himſelfe to performe to thoſe of their loines in MicahsMicah's dayes long after, Mica. 7. 20. neither was it other then the covenant of grace, thus …
Thomas Cobbet · The Estate of Children of Church Members and their Right to Baptism · p. 77 · 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.