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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10520 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

usher'dushered

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

Puritas changed it
109 times in 83 works
Consistency
98.2% (109 of 111)
Reach if approved
~117 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: ushered
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
111 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (109 changes in 83 works, 98.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 109)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    V. Let the reproofs thou doſt miniſter, be uſher'dushered in with prefaces of good will, and mannaged with evidences of love, pity, and …
    With rule
    V. Let the reproofs thou doſt miniſter, be uſher'dushered in with prefaces of good will, and mannaged with evidences of love, pity, and …

    Samuel Cradock · Knowledge and Practice · p. 474 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … a Virgin, a branch of the almost extinguish'd Family of David, born in Bethlehem, usher'dushered in by a forerunner, meek, lowly, just, and a worker of Miracles. Therefore when …
    With rule
    … a Virgin, a branch of the almost extinguish'd Family of David, born in Bethlehem, usher'dushered in by a forerunner, meek, lowly, just, and a worker of Miracles. Therefore when …

    William Bates · The Divinity of the Christian Religion · p. 116 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … freedome from Tyranny and Oppression; the Day wherein our gracious King was at first usher'dushered into the world with a new & miraculous light from Heaven; and the Day wherein …
    With rule
    … freedome from Tyranny and Oppression; the Day wherein our gracious King was at first usher'dushered into the world with a new & miraculous light from Heaven; and the Day wherein …

    Clement Ellis · Sermon Preached 29 May 1661 · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Meditation, and so one helping in another. Those Prayers are most effectual which are usher'dushered in by Meditation; and those Meditations are most successful which are set on and …
    With rule
    … Meditation, and so one helping in another. Those Prayers are most effectual which are usher'dushered in by Meditation; and those Meditations are most successful which are set on and …

    Thomas Horton · Choice and Practical Expositions on Four Select Psalms · p. 586 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … to the ordinary courſe of nature that is here ſpoken of; and therefore 'tis uſher'dushered in with a note of attention, Behold! and 'tis given by God himſelf as …
    With rule
    … to the ordinary courſe of nature that is here ſpoken of; and therefore 'tis uſher'dushered in with a note of attention, Behold! and 'tis given by God himſelf as …

    Richard Mayo · Conference Between a Papist and a Jew 2 · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. This moſt important Doctrin is twice again uſher'dushered in with the ſame aſſeveration, Joh. 3. 3, 5. Verily, verily, except a man be born again …
    With rule
    … not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. This moſt important Doctrin is twice again uſher'dushered in with the ſame aſſeveration, Joh. 3. 3, 5. Verily, verily, except a man be born again …

    Samuel Shaw · Vain Man · p. 2 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … convince any Man that is not contentious; beſides that, in ſome ancient Copies, 'tis uſher'dushered in with this Preface, And he ſpake a Parable to his Diſciples, A certain …
    With rule
    … convince any Man that is not contentious; beſides that, in ſome ancient Copies, 'tis uſher'dushered in with this Preface, And he ſpake a Parable to his Diſciples, A certain …

    John Tillotson · Sermons and Discourses Volume 5 · p. 343 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … But they poured out their ſouls into the boſom of God, Iſa. 56. 7. Their prayers uſher'dushered in their ſervices, and moſt profitably wound up their duties. And in the Concluſion …
    With rule
    … But they poured out their ſouls into the boſom of God, Iſa. 56. 7. Their prayers uſher'dushered in their ſervices, and moſt profitably wound up their duties. And in the Concluſion …

    John Wells · The Practical Sabbatarian · p. 515 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 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.