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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10439 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

signify'dsignified

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

Puritas changed it
65 times in 32 works
Consistency
100% (65 of 65)
Reach if approved
~68 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: signified
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
65 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (65 changes in 32 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 65)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … difficulty he wrote the Morning after the Fit. Upon another day of Prayer, he ſignify'dsignified in the Morning, that he ſhould be Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, whilſt Two did …
    With rule
    … difficulty he wrote the Morning after the Fit. Upon another day of Prayer, he ſignify'dsignified in the Morning, that he ſhould be Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, whilſt Two did …

    Thomas Jollie · The Surrey Demoniac · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Lassitude of Spirit, shall indispose a People to take Notice, of what may bee signify'dsignified unto them in their own Alterations; and when a People shall Jog on, in …
    With rule
    … Lassitude of Spirit, shall indispose a People to take Notice, of what may bee signify'dsignified unto them in their own Alterations; and when a People shall Jog on, in …

    Cotton Mather · Short History of New England · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … tell us) these Oblations were made: and the Abating of the Sacrifices (say they) signify'dsignified, that there wou'd be a Diminution of those Nations, until all things were brought …
    With rule
    … tell us) these Oblations were made: and the Abating of the Sacrifices (say they) signify'dsignified, that there wou'd be a Diminution of those Nations, until all things were brought …

    Thomas Foxcroft · The Day of a Godly Mans Death Better than the Day of his Birth · p. 98 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … But this happens, becauſe there is not a proper Name by which ſhould be ſignify'dsignified All, and only thoſe Plants to which the Congelation of the Humours and Fall …
    With rule
    … But this happens, becauſe there is not a proper Name by which ſhould be ſignify'dsignified All, and only thoſe Plants to which the Congelation of the Humours and Fall …

    Franco Burgersdijck · Abstract of Logic · p. 107 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … and on such terms, as must have extended it much further; else it had signify'dsignified little. But this must be effected, as is too apparent, not by meer humane …
    With rule
    … and on such terms, as must have extended it much further; else it had signify'dsignified little. But this must be effected, as is too apparent, not by meer humane …

    John Howe · Funeral Sermon for Matthew Mead · p. 54 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … or servants, &c? What will this come to at last, that convictions have hitherto signify'dsignified and served for nothing but increase of guilt?
    With rule
    … or servants, &c? What will this come to at last, that convictions have hitherto signify'dsignified and served for nothing but increase of guilt?

    John Howe · The Redeemers Tears Wept over Lost Souls · p. 131 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … granted to them, and what outward Privileges God promised them afterwards by Moses, 'tis signify'dsignified in divers Places to be upon the Account of the Covenant made with Abraham …
    With rule
    … granted to them, and what outward Privileges God promised them afterwards by Moses, 'tis signify'dsignified in divers Places to be upon the Account of the Covenant made with Abraham …

    Benjamin Keach · The Axe Laid to the Root · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Republick and his Royal Majeſty of Spain, from the time that firſt your Excellency ſignify'dsignified the tendency of his Majeſty's Inclinations that way, and was always ready to ratify …
    With rule
    … Republick and his Royal Majeſty of Spain, from the time that firſt your Excellency ſignify'dsignified the tendency of his Majeſty's Inclinations that way, and was always ready to ratify …

    John Milton · Letters of State · p. 65 · 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.