Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10530 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wash'twashed

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

Puritas changed it: 54 times in 45 works
Consistency: 100% (54 of 54)
Reach if approved: ~57 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: washed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 54 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (54 changes in 45 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 54)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… tácito péde. O… age cometh with a ſilent foot. Pléno ſe prol… auro. Hee waſh'twashed himſelf in a full cup of gold▪ Longo proximus intervallo. The next at a …
With rule
… tácito péde. O… age cometh with a ſilent foot. Pléno ſe prol… auro. Hee waſh'twashed himſelf in a full cup of gold▪ Longo proximus intervallo. The next at a …
Charles Hoole · An Easy Entrance to the Latin Tongue · p. 80 · Open in the reader
Printed
Have waſh'twashed their hands in Marty'd English bloud▪
With rule
Have waſh'twashed their hands in Marty'd English bloud▪
Benjamin Keach · Zion in Distress · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
2. The Effect. This is Three-fold. 1. Our Justification, And hath wash'twashed us in his blood. 2. Sanctification, Hath made us Priests to God his Father. 3. Glorification …
With rule
2. The Effect. This is Three-fold. 1. Our Justification, And hath wash'twashed us in his blood. 2. Sanctification, Hath made us Priests to God his Father. 3. Glorification …
Peter Sterry · The Clouds in Which Christ Comes · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and purifie his Flock, washes away their spots; Christs Sheep they are white, and wash'twashed in the blood of the Lamb.
With rule
… and purifie his Flock, washes away their spots; Christs Sheep they are white, and wash'twashed in the blood of the Lamb.
Thomas Watson · Seven Sermons · p. 131 · Open in the reader
Printed
He waſh'twashed us in that pureſt Flood;
With rule
He waſh'twashed us in that pureſt Flood;
Richard Davis · Hymns on Several Subjects · p. 118 · Open in the reader
Printed
If I have waſh'twashed your feet, afoard
With rule
If I have waſh'twashed your feet, afoard
Faithful Teate · The Doctrine of the Three Sacred Persons · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Blood. That Soul of thine, which sin has made as black as Hell, if wash'twashed in the bloud of Christ, shall be made as white as Snow. Psal. 51. 7. Purge …
With rule
… Blood. That Soul of thine, which sin has made as black as Hell, if wash'twashed in the bloud of Christ, shall be made as white as Snow. Psal. 51. 7. Purge …
Increase Mather · The Greatest Sinners Exhorted and Encouraged · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… death, Rom. 6.21. and leave a ſentence of death upon the ſoul, till it bee waſh'twashed off by the bloud of the Lamb.
With rule
… death, Rom. 6.21. and leave a ſentence of death upon the ſoul, till it bee waſh'twashed off by the bloud of the Lamb.
Thomas Brooks · Apples of Gold · p. 33 · 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.