Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10385 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pinch'dpinched

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

Puritas changed it: 72 times in 61 works
Consistency: 97.3% (72 of 74)
Reach if approved: ~78 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pinched
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 74 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (72 changes in 61 works, 97.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 72)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
15. Protosebastus was taken Prisoner, and was kept some dayes and nights waking, being pinch'dpinched, when once offering to shut his eyes. A torment which we meet not with …
With rule
15. Protosebastus was taken Prisoner, and was kept some dayes and nights waking, being pinch'dpinched, when once offering to shut his eyes. A torment which we meet not with …
Thomas Fuller · The Unfortunate Politician · Open in the reader
Printed
… antecedency of his being in that notion to this his incarnation. SOCINƲS is ſhrewdly pinch'dpinched with this Text, inſomuch that he is fain to fall upon every word in …
With rule
… antecedency of his being in that notion to this his incarnation. SOCINƲS is ſhrewdly pinch'dpinched with this Text, inſomuch that he is fain to fall upon every word in …
Thomas Jacombe · Sermons Preached on Romans 8 · p. 394 · Open in the reader
Printed
How pinch'dpinched and narrow are the moſt enlarged and capacious Souls upon Earth in their Thanks …
With rule
How pinch'dpinched and narrow are the moſt enlarged and capacious Souls upon Earth in their Thanks …
Samuel Shaw · Vain Man · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Preach to such, as could not come to our Churches; yet, when he is pinch'dpinched with the point of Separation, then he declares, That his hearers are the same …
With rule
… Preach to such, as could not come to our Churches; yet, when he is pinch'dpinched with the point of Separation, then he declares, That his hearers are the same …
Edward Stillingfleet · The Unreasonableness of Separation · p. 99 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that ſuffers, but not I; and let them ſuffer (for me) let them be pinch'dpinched and pain'd, and ſtarv'd and die; none of all this ſhall move me: nay …
With rule
… that ſuffers, but not I; and let them ſuffer (for me) let them be pinch'dpinched and pain'd, and ſtarv'd and die; none of all this ſhall move me: nay …
Richard Alleine · A Vindication of Godliness · p. 108 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it is to a Man when his great Fine is paid, though he have pinch'dpinched to pay it.
With rule
… it is to a Man when his great Fine is paid, though he have pinch'dpinched to pay it.
William Thomas · Scriptures Opened and Cases of Conscience Resolved · p. 163 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Distress, Loss and Suffering. How many have been driven to great Straits thereby and pinch'dpinched with hard Necessity, And many have met with Considerable Losses page missingn their Substance and …
With rule
… Distress, Loss and Suffering. How many have been driven to great Straits thereby and pinch'dpinched with hard Necessity, And many have met with Considerable Losses page missingn their Substance and …
Eliphalet Adams · Discourse on the Late Distressing Storm of 20 February 1716 · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Soulquickning Water. This being the onely Soul-quenching Water. Nothing can ſatisfie the ſoul pinch'dpinched with the ſenſe of its owne miſery, but a draught of the Brooks which …
With rule
… Soulquickning Water. This being the onely Soul-quenching Water. Nothing can ſatisfie the ſoul pinch'dpinched with the ſenſe of its owne miſery, but a draught of the Brooks which …
William Bagshawe · Living Water · p. 97 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

The Garden of Zion B01751

Printed
Pinch'dPinched with famine like a pale feeble wig…
With rule
Pinch'dPinched with famine like a pale feeble wig…
Zacharie Boyd · The Garden of Zion · p. 34 · Open in the reader