Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10502 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

throng'dthronged

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

Puritas changed it: 62 times in 49 works
Consistency: 98.4% (62 of 63)
Reach if approved: ~66 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: thronged
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 63 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (62 changes in 49 works, 98.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 62)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… locally near us, and yet vertually far from us, ſo may evill; The multitude throng'dthronged Chriſt in the Goſpel, and yet but one toucht him, ſo as to receive …
With rule
… locally near us, and yet vertually far from us, ſo may evill; The multitude throng'dthronged Chriſt in the Goſpel, and yet but one toucht him, ſo as to receive …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 4-7 · p. 350 · Open in the reader
Printed
… go back, becauſe it was raſhly malign'd by them that walk'd in Pauls, or throng'dthronged together in the Markets. There was nothing like a halt in the Treaty of …
With rule
… go back, becauſe it was raſhly malign'd by them that walk'd in Pauls, or throng'dthronged together in the Markets. There was nothing like a halt in the Treaty of …
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 113 · Open in the reader
Printed
Of rigid Spears, and Helmets throng'dthronged, and Shields
With rule
Of rigid Spears, and Helmets throng'dthronged, and Shields
John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader
Printed
… which might have given him ſome ſatisfaction. For whenſoever a crowd of little occaſions throng'dthronged in upon him and would not be denyed his company; then he began to …
With rule
… which might have given him ſome ſatisfaction. For whenſoever a crowd of little occaſions throng'dthronged in upon him and would not be denyed his company; then he began to …
Simon Patrick · The Parable of the Pilgrim · p. 336 · Open in the reader
Printed
… give a particular Account of our Reception here, would be too tedious; the Streets throng'dthronged with People we could scarce enter, all endeavouring to manifest their Joy at his …
With rule
… give a particular Account of our Reception here, would be too tedious; the Streets throng'dthronged with People we could scarce enter, all endeavouring to manifest their Joy at his …
John Tutchin · A New Martyrology · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
Came behinde him] It's like, becauſe the Multitude throng'dthronged him that ſhe could not come before him.
With rule
Came behinde him] It's like, becauſe the Multitude throng'dthronged him that ſhe could not come before him.
Christopher Blackwood · Expositions Upon Matthew 1-10 · p. 702 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Day's hearing, were more Grievous to us than the Substance; for we were all throng'dthronged so miserably in that strait Room before the Bar, by Reason, that the whole …
With rule
… Day's hearing, were more Grievous to us than the Substance; for we were all throng'dthronged so miserably in that strait Room before the Bar, by Reason, that the whole …
Joseph Hall · Fanatic Moderation Exemplified · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Dined at the Secretary's, and preached in the Afternoon at Dr. Sewal's to a throng'dthronged Congregation; and exhorted and prayed as uſual at my own Lodgings; at neither Place …
With rule
… Dined at the Secretary's, and preached in the Afternoon at Dr. Sewal's to a throng'dthronged Congregation; and exhorted and prayed as uſual at my own Lodgings; at neither Place …
George Whitefield · Continuation of Journal from Arrival at Savannah to Leaving Stanford · p. 70 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.