Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10432 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

shatter'dshattered

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

Puritas changed it: 66 times in 60 works
Consistency: 95.6% (66 of 69)
Reach if approved: ~72 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: shattered
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 69 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (66 changes in 60 works, 95.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 66)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
To toss their shatter'dshattered bones, and serve them in,
With rule
To toss their shatter'dshattered bones, and serve them in,
Thomas Gilbert · Englands Passing-Bell · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reign ſwerved ſtrangely from his former righteouſneſſe. Yea becauſe Solomons kingdome was ſo ſoon ſhatter'dshattered in his ſon Rehoboam, leſt the faith of Gods righteous ſervants, that had heard …
With rule
… reign ſwerved ſtrangely from his former righteouſneſſe. Yea becauſe Solomons kingdome was ſo ſoon ſhatter'dshattered in his ſon Rehoboam, leſt the faith of Gods righteous ſervants, that had heard …
Arthur Jackson · Annotations Upon the Books of Poetry · p. 447 · Open in the reader
Printed
Were ſhatter'dshattered into heaps o're thy falſe head.
With rule
Were ſhatter'dshattered into heaps o're thy falſe head.
John Milton · Poems · p. 119 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Purpoſes inconſtant, and our beſt Reſolutions wavering and unſtedy, and very quickly, very eaſily ſhatter'dshattered by the breath of a ſmall Temptation?
With rule
… Purpoſes inconſtant, and our beſt Reſolutions wavering and unſtedy, and very quickly, very eaſily ſhatter'dshattered by the breath of a ſmall Temptation?
John Shower · The Mourners Companion · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
And when a man's underſtanding is once craz'd and ſhatter'dshattered, how are the fineſt notions and thoughts of the wiſeſt man blunder'd and broken …
With rule
And when a man's underſtanding is once craz'd and ſhatter'dshattered, how are the fineſt notions and thoughts of the wiſeſt man blunder'd and broken …
John Tillotson · Sermon on 27 October · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… on the Glorious Work of Interceding (with God his Father) for him, a poor, ſhatter'dshattered tempted Soul.
With rule
… on the Glorious Work of Interceding (with God his Father) for him, a poor, ſhatter'dshattered tempted Soul.
James Barry · The Only Refuge of a Troubled Soul · p. 101 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whereon we live and the Abyſſe of fire below. And the more this is ſhatter'dshattered and broken by blaſts within, the nearer is the ſinking of the earth, and …
With rule
… whereon we live and the Abyſſe of fire below. And the more this is ſhatter'dshattered and broken by blaſts within, the nearer is the ſinking of the earth, and …
Benjamin Colman · The Judgments of Providence in the Hand of Christ · p. vii · Open in the reader
Printed
… to my self to be retired to this place, as a Vessel rent and shatter'dshattered and torn in the Service, that it come to recruit in the Harbour: And …
With rule
… to my self to be retired to this place, as a Vessel rent and shatter'dshattered and torn in the Service, that it come to recruit in the Harbour: And …
Joseph Alleine · Christian Letters Full of Spiritual Instructions · p. 93 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.