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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10355 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

miss'dmissed

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

Puritas changed it
108 times in 82 works
Consistency
99.0% (108 of 109)
Reach if approved
~115 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: missed
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
109 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (108 changes in 82 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 108)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … shall we find it at last? In Tradition if any where, for we have miss'dmissed it everywhere else. And there we have already found it, if our Authour must …
    With rule
    … shall we find it at last? In Tradition if any where, for we have miss'dmissed it everywhere else. And there we have already found it, if our Authour must …

    Clement Ellis · Letter to a Friend · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … that good order, but in the moſt antient Church, I find that they never miſs'dmissed to carry the Poors Box about every Lords Day, witneſs this place of St …
    With rule
    … that good order, but in the moſt antient Church, I find that they never miſs'dmissed to carry the Poors Box about every Lords Day, witneſs this place of St …

    John Hacket · A Century of Sermons · p. 582 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Mercy and Truth that long were miſs'dmissed
    With rule
    Mercy and Truth that long were miſs'dmissed

    John Milton · Poems · p. 157 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … well as Elder, have Dyed of Late: And tho' Few of us will be miſs'dmissed, when we Dye, (there being ſuch Numbers to Supply our Places,) yet Every One …
    With rule
    … well as Elder, have Dyed of Late: And tho' Few of us will be miſs'dmissed, when we Dye, (there being ſuch Numbers to Supply our Places,) yet Every One …

    John Shower · Gods Thoughts and Ways Above Ours · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … a little over, that they might fetch up if they could what they had miss'dmissed by that intermission; did not the Lord send a Fire to consume much of …
    With rule
    … a little over, that they might fetch up if they could what they had miss'dmissed by that intermission; did not the Lord send a Fire to consume much of …

    Thomas Vincent · Gods Terrible Voice in the City · p. 168 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of them; and then preſented his Gun at them, and Snap't, but his Gun miſs'dmissed Fire; and ſo it did above a Dozen Times, till they all Three came …
    With rule
    … of them; and then preſented his Gun at them, and Snap't, but his Gun miſs'dmissed Fire; and ſo it did above a Dozen Times, till they all Three came …

    Cotton Mather · History of the War with Indian Savages · p. 110 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the Emblem of Chriſts Kingdom, though indeed Sathan by Them, as hath been ſay'd, miſs'dmissed his Aim; For the Empire was now Antichriſtianiz'd, and the True Church hid.
    With rule
    … the Emblem of Chriſts Kingdom, though indeed Sathan by Them, as hath been ſay'd, miſs'dmissed his Aim; For the Empire was now Antichriſtianiz'd, and the True Church hid.

    Thomas Beverley · The Kingdom of Jesus Christ Entering at 1697 · p. 58 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … was to be ordained in thoſe parts) to conſecrate not knowing Men, foreign, unleſs he miſs'dmissed of his aim; chooſing rather to have the ordering of them, as of Fools …
    With rule
    … was to be ordained in thoſe parts) to conſecrate not knowing Men, foreign, unleſs he miſs'dmissed of his aim; chooſing rather to have the ordering of them, as of Fools …

    David Clarkson · A Discourse Concerning Liturgies · p. 194 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.