Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10462 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

subdu'dsubdued

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

Puritas changed it: 115 times in 79 works
Consistency: 97.4% (115 of 118)
Reach if approved: ~124 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: subdued
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 118 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (115 changes in 79 works, 97.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 115)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… to unite our Affections; which we can never hope to do, till we have subdu'dsubdued them to the Empire of our Reason. But when we come to be under …
With rule
… to unite our Affections; which we can never hope to do, till we have subdu'dsubdued them to the Empire of our Reason. But when we come to be under …
John Scott · The Christian Life Part 3 Volume 4 · p. 333 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Alexander, that he was of a wondrous temperate and abstemious continence, till he had subdu'dsubdued the Persians, who liv'd the most deliciously of any nation under the Sunne: but …
With rule
… Alexander, that he was of a wondrous temperate and abstemious continence, till he had subdu'dsubdued the Persians, who liv'd the most deliciously of any nation under the Sunne: but …
Thomas Taylor · The Theater of Gods Judgments Part 2 · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… way to ſubdue a people, but not to hold them in firm obedience, when ſubdu'dsubdued. Machiavel ſhews the inconvenience that ariſeth to a Prince by holding a people under …
With rule
… way to ſubdue a people, but not to hold them in firm obedience, when ſubdu'dsubdued. Machiavel ſhews the inconvenience that ariſeth to a Prince by holding a people under …
John Corbet · The Interest of England in the Matter of Religion Part 2 · p. 99 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Iesus sake, to whom then, and not till then, all things shall bee absolutely subdu'dsubdued. Seale to our soules now an assurance of thy gracious purpose towards vs in …
With rule
… Iesus sake, to whom then, and not till then, all things shall bee absolutely subdu'dsubdued. Seale to our soules now an assurance of thy gracious purpose towards vs in …
John Donne · Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers Late Wife · Open in the reader
Printed
… One of, viz. the ſixth of its Heads or the Pagan Emperours and Powers ſubdu'dsubdued by the Chriſtian Emperours.
With rule
… One of, viz. the ſixth of its Heads or the Pagan Emperours and Powers ſubdu'dsubdued by the Chriſtian Emperours.
Thomas Beverley · The Command of God to Come Out of Babylon · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that they would take cognizance of the affairs of the Florentines, whom he had ſubdu'dsubdued and ſubjected to the Family of the Medici by force of Arms; or as …
With rule
… that they would take cognizance of the affairs of the Florentines, whom he had ſubdu'dsubdued and ſubjected to the Family of the Medici by force of Arms; or as …
Jean Claude · Historical Defense of the Reformation · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… This is Discipleship to Christ, and the design of the Christian Religion to be subdu'dsubdued in our Spirits, and wrought down into compliance with the divine will, to be …
With rule
… This is Discipleship to Christ, and the design of the Christian Religion to be subdu'dsubdued in our Spirits, and wrought down into compliance with the divine will, to be …
John Howe · The Right Use of The Name of God in Prayer · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
But they subdu'dsubdued the men of conscience in Parlament, back'd and abetted all seditious and schismatical Proposals …
With rule
But they subdu'dsubdued the men of conscience in Parlament, back'd and abetted all seditious and schismatical Proposals …
John Milton · Answer to a Book · p. 35 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions A28159

Printed
Subdu'dSubdued, Joſiah- like, he dy'd in fight:
With rule
Subdu'dSubdued, Joſiah- like, he dy'd in fight:
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 158 · Open in the reader