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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #10560 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

curb'dcurbed

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

Puritas changed it
79 times in 68 works
Consistency
92.9% (79 of 85)
Reach if approved
~89 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: curbed
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
85 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (79 changes in 68 works, 92.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 79)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … to fight for Sion on Earth. The mercileſs nature of the fire hath been curb'dcurbed, to preſerve her children, when ſhe ſeemed to be reduced to a ſmall number …
    With rule
    … to fight for Sion on Earth. The mercileſs nature of the fire hath been curb'dcurbed, to preſerve her children, when ſhe ſeemed to be reduced to a ſmall number …

    Stephen Charnock · A Supplement to the Several Discourses Upon Various Divine Subjects · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … seeing such … preaching break's no bones, much pleased their fancy, and little cross'd or curb'dcurbed their corruptions. Indeed some (but not all) Scripture is capable of such comments, and …
    With rule
    … seeing such … preaching break's no bones, much pleased their fancy, and little cross'd or curb'dcurbed their corruptions. Indeed some (but not all) Scripture is capable of such comments, and …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 230 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Rome were kept under by the Emperors, who kept a strict Eye over them, curb'dcurbed their insolencies, and exorbitances, and at the first appearance nipping their aspiring projects in …
    With rule
    … Rome were kept under by the Emperors, who kept a strict Eye over them, curb'dcurbed their insolencies, and exorbitances, and at the first appearance nipping their aspiring projects in …

    Benjamin Keach · Antichrist Stormed · p. 117 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … there is not room enough for a Man and his Lusts, Nature must be curb'dcurbed, and the Flesh Crucified, and the Body kept under, and self denied. That way …
    With rule
    … there is not room enough for a Man and his Lusts, Nature must be curb'dcurbed, and the Flesh Crucified, and the Body kept under, and self denied. That way …

    Samuel Slater · An Earnest Call to Family Religion · p. 263 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … in the licence of your owne deſires to remoue it. That God, that hath curb'dcurbed in the fury of that vnquiet and foaming element, and ſaid of old, Here …
    With rule
    … in the licence of your owne deſires to remoue it. That God, that hath curb'dcurbed in the fury of that vnquiet and foaming element, and ſaid of old, Here …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 337 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Nations about us have a long time groan'd for it: but it hath been curb'dcurbed and ſtifled by Prerogative and Arbitrary power: It hath been comming to the birth …
    With rule
    … Nations about us have a long time groan'd for it: but it hath been curb'dcurbed and ſtifled by Prerogative and Arbitrary power: It hath been comming to the birth …

    Matthew Barker · Standing and Moving Upon the True Foundation · p. 33 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … corrupt affections which choak the things of God. As an unruly horſe may be curb'dcurbed with a bit and a bridle; ſo the fear of God it is as …
    With rule
    … corrupt affections which choak the things of God. As an unruly horſe may be curb'dcurbed with a bit and a bridle; ſo the fear of God it is as …

    Job Royse · The Spirits Touchstone · p. 282 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … it in a shape and colour farre different from the naturall. Parents oft-times curb'dcurbed by civility from an outward expression of their indiscreet affection, yet in themselues giue …
    With rule
    … it in a shape and colour farre different from the naturall. Parents oft-times curb'dcurbed by civility from an outward expression of their indiscreet affection, yet in themselues giue …

    John Cameron · Examination of those Plausible Appearances in the Romish Church · p. 3 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.