Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10506 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tortur'dtortured

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

Puritas changed it: 97 times in 75 works
Consistency: 95.1% (97 of 102)
Reach if approved: ~107 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: tortured
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 102 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (97 changes in 75 works, 95.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 97)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… sweeten the sence of their Sufferings. Judgments are tempered with Mercies. No Man is tortur'dtortured with all Diseases, nor forsaken of all Friends, nor utterly without Comfort. And when …
With rule
… sweeten the sence of their Sufferings. Judgments are tempered with Mercies. No Man is tortur'dtortured with all Diseases, nor forsaken of all Friends, nor utterly without Comfort. And when …
William Bates · The Sovereign and Final Happiness of Man with Means to Obtain it · p. 240 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Streams of burning Brimſtone. You ſhall drink your Tears, and feed on your own tortur'dtortured Fleſh in endleſs and never-ceaſing Miſery. Now, the flame of your Luſt is …
With rule
… Streams of burning Brimſtone. You ſhall drink your Tears, and feed on your own tortur'dtortured Fleſh in endleſs and never-ceaſing Miſery. Now, the flame of your Luſt is …
Richard Davis · Sermon at Funeral of John Bigg · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for compaſſing all Earthly Delights: Who, many years ſifted out the fineſt Flour, and tortur'dtortured Nature to extract the moſt exquiſite Spirits, the pureſt Quinteſſence, which all the Varieties …
With rule
… for compaſſing all Earthly Delights: Who, many years ſifted out the fineſt Flour, and tortur'dtortured Nature to extract the moſt exquiſite Spirits, the pureſt Quinteſſence, which all the Varieties …
Thomas Gregory · Discourses Upon Several Divine Subjects · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they durst not sin against him; therefore they durst be imprison'd, and impoverish'd, and tortur'dtortured, and dye for him. Thus the Prophet I say sets carnall, and godly fear …
With rule
… they durst not sin against him; therefore they durst be imprison'd, and impoverish'd, and tortur'dtortured, and dye for him. Thus the Prophet I say sets carnall, and godly fear …
Robert Leighton · Practical Commentary of 1 Peter Volume 1 · p. 162 · Open in the reader
Printed
… if he knew he muſt at the end of that time be rackt and tortur'dtortured to Death, and finiſh his Days in Exquiſite Torments? And what is this in …
With rule
… if he knew he muſt at the end of that time be rackt and tortur'dtortured to Death, and finiſh his Days in Exquiſite Torments? And what is this in …
John Shower · Heaven and Hell · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the gates of Hell, and a damned Spirit that has been for ſome time tortur'dtortured in the ſlames there; and was once well known to this ſtupid Sinner, ſhould …
With rule
… the gates of Hell, and a damned Spirit that has been for ſome time tortur'dtortured in the ſlames there; and was once well known to this ſtupid Sinner, ſhould …
Nathanael Vincent · The Conversion of the Soul · p. 240 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be more wretched then to have a mind thus agitated and toſt, rackt and tortur'dtortured; eſpecially when thro all theſe clouds it ſees a glimpſe of the eternal Tophet …
With rule
… be more wretched then to have a mind thus agitated and toſt, rackt and tortur'dtortured; eſpecially when thro all theſe clouds it ſees a glimpſe of the eternal Tophet …
Richard Allestree · The Lively Oracles Given to Us · p. 105 · Open in the reader
Printed
Then to be tortur'dtortured by my Fantasie.
With rule
Then to be tortur'dtortured by my Fantasie.
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

2 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.

Distressed Zion Relieved A47473

Printed
Were Tortur'dTortured, Murther'd, Burnt or Massacred,
With rule
Were Tortur'dTortured, Murther'd, Burnt or Massacred,
Benjamin Keach · Distressed Zion Relieved · p. 140 · Open in the reader
Printed
Tortur'dTortured to death, and dying cannot die;
With rule
Tortur'dTortured to death, and dying cannot die;
Benjamin Keach · Distressed Zion Relieved · p. 142 · Open in the reader