Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39125 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

constantinesconstantine's

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

Puritas changed it: 646 times in 322 works
Consistency: 99.0% (646 of 652)
Reach if approved: ~685 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 652 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (646 changes in 322 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 646)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… captiuities of Egypt and Babylon. Rayſe vp ſome Ioſuahs, and Eſdras, ſome Nehemiahs and ConſtantinesConstantine's, which may reare againe thy raſed palaces, taking pitie on our ruines and ſackinges …
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… captiuities of Egypt and Babylon. Rayſe vp ſome Ioſuahs, and Eſdras, ſome Nehemiahs and ConſtantinesConstantine's, which may reare againe thy raſed palaces, taking pitie on our ruines and ſackinges …
Theodore Beza · Meditations Upon Eight Psalms · Open in the reader
Printed
… their kingdomes to the Beast? why then the Pope of Rome need not pretend ConstantinesConstantine's donation, that he 300. yeares after Christ gave unto them many territories about Rome: But …
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… their kingdomes to the Beast? why then the Pope of Rome need not pretend ConstantinesConstantine's donation, that he 300. yeares after Christ gave unto them many territories about Rome: But …
Richard Sibbes · Evangelical Sacrifices · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Princes, they ſhould then haue continued about 300. yeares longer then they did, euen to ConstantinesConstantine's time. Nay then they ſhould haue bene alwayes ſuch to this day, and ſhalbe …
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… Princes, they ſhould then haue continued about 300. yeares longer then they did, euen to ConstantinesConstantine's time. Nay then they ſhould haue bene alwayes ſuch to this day, and ſhalbe …
Walter Travers · Defense of the Ecclesiastical Discipline · p. 177 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the Septuag. from the beginning of the world: and Lactantius who liued in ConstantinesConstantine's time, thought that there were but 200. yeares remayning of the sixe thousand: In their …
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… of the Septuag. from the beginning of the world: and Lactantius who liued in ConstantinesConstantine's time, thought that there were but 200. yeares remayning of the sixe thousand: In their …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 229 · Open in the reader
Printed
… baptise. Yes I haue read it, but I spake of an elder Church then ConstantinesConstantine's time, in which such pompe was not vsed. And yet that robe is lewdly …
With rule
… baptise. Yes I haue read it, but I spake of an elder Church then ConstantinesConstantine's time, in which such pompe was not vsed. And yet that robe is lewdly …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 285 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God curseth vs. Wee shall find in that Emperiall state of Rome, that till ConstantinesConstantine's time almost euery Emperour dyed by treason or massacre: after the receiuing of the …
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… God curseth vs. Wee shall find in that Emperiall state of Rome, that till ConstantinesConstantine's time almost euery Emperour dyed by treason or massacre: after the receiuing of the …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
… never finde that any Churches vſed the meanes and power of Synodes till about ConstantinesConstantine's time for almoſt 300. yeares ſpace. Which if it had ben an ordināce Divine for …
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… never finde that any Churches vſed the meanes and power of Synodes till about ConstantinesConstantine's time for almoſt 300. yeares ſpace. Which if it had ben an ordināce Divine for …
Henry Jacob · Necessity of Reforming Our Churches · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Metropolitans, &c. the Starre called Worm-wood, to the reuiuing of Arrianiſme after ConſtantinesConstantine's time, and the darkning of the third part of the Sunne, &c. to the …
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… and Metropolitans, &c. the Starre called Worm-wood, to the reuiuing of Arrianiſme after ConſtantinesConstantine's time, and the darkning of the third part of the Sunne, &c. to the …
John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 339 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

5 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.

History of the First Ten Persecutions A13296

Printed
… the eight persecuting Emperour. But the first Councill of Carthage, that was kept in CONSTANTINESCONSTANTINE'S dayes, was that Councill whereinto the Donatistes condemned Caecil…anus Bishop of Carthage, whose …
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… the eight persecuting Emperour. But the first Councill of Carthage, that was kept in CONSTANTINESCONSTANTINE'S dayes, was that Councill whereinto the Donatistes condemned Caecil…anus Bishop of Carthage, whose …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and body, and meete for great workes, as EVSEBIVS witne…eth, who liued in CONSTANTINESCONSTANTINE'S time, and was familiarly acquainted with him. Neither was hee baptized by SILVESTER in …
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… and body, and meete for great workes, as EVSEBIVS witne…eth, who liued in CONSTANTINESCONSTANTINE'S time, and was familiarly acquainted with him. Neither was hee baptized by SILVESTER in …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and body, and meete for great workes, as EVSEBIVS witne…seth, who liued in CONSTANTINESCONSTANTINE'S time, and was familiarly acquainted with him. Neither was hee baptized by SILVESTER in …
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… and body, and meete for great workes, as EVSEBIVS witne…seth, who liued in CONSTANTINESCONSTANTINE'S time, and was familiarly acquainted with him. Neither was hee baptized by SILVESTER in …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 47 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Revelation A55917

Printed
… little, through the ambition and contention of Prieſts declined from Apoſtolicall ſincerity: But after CONSTANTINESCONSTANTINE'S time, ſaith JEROM, ſhee became greater indeed in wealth, but leſſe in vertues.
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… little, through the ambition and contention of Prieſts declined from Apoſtolicall ſincerity: But after CONSTANTINESCONSTANTINE'S time, ſaith JEROM, ſhee became greater indeed in wealth, but leſſe in vertues.
David Pareus · Commentary on Revelation · p. 10 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

Printed
… I would praiſe God for him, not praiſe him to himſelfe. A Preacher in CONSTANTINESCONSTANTINE'S time, ſaith Euſebius (auſus est Imperatorem in os beatum dicere) preſumed to call CONSTANTINE …
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… I would praiſe God for him, not praiſe him to himſelfe. A Preacher in CONSTANTINESCONSTANTINE'S time, ſaith Euſebius (auſus est Imperatorem in os beatum dicere) preſumed to call CONSTANTINE …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 479 · Open in the reader