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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10384 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pilatspilate's

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

Puritas changed it
84 times in 64 works
Consistency
100% (84 of 84)
Reach if approved
~88 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
84 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (84 changes in 64 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 84)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … pay unto Caesar the things that are Caesars; and himselfe paid tribute; and acknowledgeth PilatsPilate's power over him to be from God.
    With rule
    … pay unto Caesar the things that are Caesars; and himselfe paid tribute; and acknowledgeth PilatsPilate's power over him to be from God.

    Daniel Featley · The Dippers Dipped · p. 186 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … did thoſe Philiſtines at Mizpeh, 1 Sam. 7. And had they but ſo much wit as PilatsPilate's wife in a dream, they would take heed of having any thing to do …
    With rule
    … did thoſe Philiſtines at Mizpeh, 1 Sam. 7. And had they but ſo much wit as PilatsPilate's wife in a dream, they would take heed of having any thing to do …

    John Trapp · Commentary on the Minor Prophets · p. 575 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … innocent blood. Therefore St. Auſtin, and Leo, and others obſerve, that that Dreame that PilatsPilate's Wife had concerning our Saviour, when ſhee ſaid to her Husband that he ſhould …
    With rule
    … innocent blood. Therefore St. Auſtin, and Leo, and others obſerve, that that Dreame that PilatsPilate's Wife had concerning our Saviour, when ſhee ſaid to her Husband that he ſhould …

    Richard Holdsworth · The Valley of Vision · p. 493 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … aboliſhed. The ſame reaſon for the aboliſhing this name; The Biſhops, not Prelates, but PilatsPilate's; not Paſtors, but Impoſtors; not Doctors, but ſeducers, as their unreaſonable carriage has cauſed …
    With rule
    … aboliſhed. The ſame reaſon for the aboliſhing this name; The Biſhops, not Prelates, but PilatsPilate's; not Paſtors, but Impoſtors; not Doctors, but ſeducers, as their unreaſonable carriage has cauſed …

    Hezekiah Woodward · Archbishops to be Cut Off · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Luke 23.20. Hee was determined to let him goe, saith the Apostle Peter, Acts 3.13. But PilatsPilate's good purpose and desire was counterfeit, and such as yeelded him no comfort, because …
    With rule
    … Luke 23.20. Hee was determined to let him goe, saith the Apostle Peter, Acts 3.13. But PilatsPilate's good purpose and desire was counterfeit, and such as yeelded him no comfort, because …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 444 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … yet vvas not accepted because it cāe frō an vncleane beast: so Caines offering, PilatsPilate's vvashing, the Sichemits circūcision, the pharisces praier, and fasts, & alms, vver as fair as …
    With rule
    … yet vvas not accepted because it cāe frō an vncleane beast: so Caines offering, PilatsPilate's vvashing, the Sichemits circūcision, the pharisces praier, and fasts, & alms, vver as fair as …

    Henry Smith · The Christians Sacrifice Seen and Allowed · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … GOD guideth men alſo by dreames and viſions: So by a dreame hee counſelled PilatsPilate's Wife to counſell her husband not to trouble …eſus: when he was ſet downe …
    With rule
    … GOD guideth men alſo by dreames and viſions: So by a dreame hee counſelled PilatsPilate's Wife to counſell her husband not to trouble …eſus: when he was ſet downe …

    Zacharie Boyd · Two Oriental Pearls · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … perfection, so we told you that it imports, his eternity and unchangeablenesse, you know PilatsPilate's speech, what I have written I have written, wherein he meant, that he would …
    With rule
    … perfection, so we told you that it imports, his eternity and unchangeablenesse, you know PilatsPilate's speech, what I have written I have written, wherein he meant, that he would …

    Hugh Binning · The Common Principles of the Christian Religion · p. 93 · 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.