Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39228 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

begg'dbeg'd

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

Puritas changed it: 405 times in 286 works
Consistency: 99.7% (405 of 406)
Reach if approved: ~427 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: begged
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 406 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (405 changes in 286 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 405)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… be said, and I doubt often is; but all this while the question is begg'dbeg'd, and a strong affirmation must pass for proof: for I defie all the Doctors …
With rule
… be said, and I doubt often is; but all this while the question is begg'dbeg'd, and a strong affirmation must pass for proof: for I defie all the Doctors …
Richard Allestree · The Ladys Calling · p. 88 · Open in the reader
Printed
… extraordinary Commission, continued Governor of that Province. To him Gentilis made his Application, and begg'dbeg'd of him the Favour of a Publick Disputation: The Governour's Answer was, He should …
With rule
… extraordinary Commission, continued Governor of that Province. To him Gentilis made his Application, and begg'dbeg'd of him the Favour of a Publick Disputation: The Governour's Answer was, He should …
Benedictus Aretius · Valentinus Gentilis – The Tritheist Put to Death In Bern · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to be Future before it's put into a Proposition, &c.] As if you still begg'dbeg'd the Question, and took Futurity extra mentem & signa, to be something ex parte rei …
With rule
… to be Future before it's put into a Proposition, &c.] As if you still begg'dbeg'd the Question, and took Futurity extra mentem & signa, to be something ex parte rei …
Richard Baxter · An End of Doctrinal Controversies · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
Anſw. 1. It was leave that I deſired, but I never ſaid, I begg'dbeg'd it on my knees: but that I would gladly do it, could that prevail.
With rule
Anſw. 1. It was leave that I deſired, but I never ſaid, I begg'dbeg'd it on my knees: but that I would gladly do it, could that prevail.
Richard Baxter · A Third Defense of Peace · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for our purpoſe more remarkable then both the former. He had accuſed, bought and begg'dbeg'd of King Ahaſhuerus the whole Nation of the Jewes; his pretence was, becauſe they …
With rule
… for our purpoſe more remarkable then both the former. He had accuſed, bought and begg'dbeg'd of King Ahaſhuerus the whole Nation of the Jewes; his pretence was, becauſe they …
John Bond · A Door of Hope · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… offer it, when he was not Petition'd for it eſpecially: Yet if he had begg'dbeg'd it, God having before furniſh'd him ſufficiently, might by the right of his Soveraign …
With rule
… offer it, when he was not Petition'd for it eſpecially: Yet if he had begg'dbeg'd it, God having before furniſh'd him ſufficiently, might by the right of his Soveraign …
Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 526 · Open in the reader
Printed
… when we were about to ſell him, and how earneſtly he beſeeched us, and begg'dbeg'd of us that we would not do it; but we would not hear him …
With rule
… when we were about to ſell him, and how earneſtly he beſeeched us, and begg'dbeg'd of us that we would not do it; but we would not hear him …
Samuel Cradock · The History of the Old Testament Methodized · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which without paine and labour hee could not commit. We see Dives in hell begg'dbeg'd for but a drop of water to coole his tongue in that mightie flame …
With rule
… which without paine and labour hee could not commit. We see Dives in hell begg'dbeg'd for but a drop of water to coole his tongue in that mightie flame …
Edward Reynolds · Explication of Psalm 110 · p. 106 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The True Christians T est A59607

Printed
… come out and ſay, It has been their greateſt Relief, and that they had Begg'dBeg'd, if it had not been for Borrowing. In ſome reſpect it is an higher …
With rule
… come out and ſay, It has been their greateſt Relief, and that they had Begg'dBeg'd, if it had not been for Borrowing. In ſome reſpect it is an higher …
Samuel Shaw · The True Christians T est · p. 319 · Open in the reader