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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39351 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

reduc'dreduced

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

Puritas changed it
264 times in 160 works
Consistency
96.0% (264 of 275)
Reach if approved
~289 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: reduced
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
275 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (264 changes in 160 works, 96.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 264)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … could not answer Abner a word, 2 Sam. 3. 10, 11. The suddain passion stifled his replie, and reduc'dreduced him to a defenceless silence. Now the fear of Death, as 'tis remiss or …
    With rule
    … could not answer Abner a word, 2 Sam. 3. 10, 11. The suddain passion stifled his replie, and reduc'dreduced him to a defenceless silence. Now the fear of Death, as 'tis remiss or …

    William Bates · Sermons Upon Death and Eternal Judgment · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    And thoſe that were ſeduc'd, reduc'dreduced from error.
    With rule
    And thoſe that were ſeduc'd, reduc'dreduced from error.

    Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 68 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Are other men proſperous in the world, and free from trouble, whiles you are reduc'dreduced to a low eſtate, and chaſtened every Morning? Have, perhaps, but an handful of …
    With rule
    Are other men proſperous in the world, and free from trouble, whiles you are reduc'dreduced to a low eſtate, and chaſtened every Morning? Have, perhaps, but an handful of …

    Elisha Coles · A Practical Discourse of Gods Sovereignty · p. 106 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … and in an inſtant tumbling down again. How many perſons do we meet with reduc'dreduced on a ſuddain to beggery, who a little before did flouriſh in all manner …
    With rule
    … and in an inſtant tumbling down again. How many perſons do we meet with reduc'dreduced on a ſuddain to beggery, who a little before did flouriſh in all manner …

    Charles Drelincourt · The Christians Defense Against the Fears of Death · p. 130 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Behold thou hast my days reduc'dreduced
    With rule
    Behold thou hast my days reduc'dreduced

    Matthew Henry · Family-Hymns out of Davids Psalms · p. 59 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    This whole foregoing Context contains Precepts, which reduc'dreduced to practice, afford an eminent Example and Patern of a true Gospel-Preacher: Or …
    With rule
    This whole foregoing Context contains Precepts, which reduc'dreduced to practice, afford an eminent Example and Patern of a true Gospel-Preacher: Or …

    John Howe · Funeral Sermon for Matthew Mead · p. 2 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … to pursue him againe, and was once more by the experience of Davids innocencie reduc'dreduced unto the same acknowledgement. The people in one place would have made Christ a …
    With rule
    … to pursue him againe, and was once more by the experience of Davids innocencie reduc'dreduced unto the same acknowledgement. The people in one place would have made Christ a …

    Edward Reynolds · Explication of Psalm 110 · p. 315 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … from many among us their whole subsistence, so entirely despoil'd them that they were reduc'dreduced to Iobs condition, and connected the two extreme points of Birth and Death, by …
    With rule
    … from many among us their whole subsistence, so entirely despoil'd them that they were reduc'dreduced to Iobs condition, and connected the two extreme points of Birth and Death, by …

    Richard Allestree · The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety · p. 229 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Scripture Line of Time A27623

  • Printed
    2. The Temple, the Altar, and the Worſhippers therein, Reduc'dReduced within cloſe, and confin'd meaſures, is the next given Symbol. And here it is …
    With rule
    2. The Temple, the Altar, and the Worſhippers therein, Reduc'dReduced within cloſe, and confin'd meaſures, is the next given Symbol. And here it is …

    Thomas Beverley · A Scripture Line of Time · p. 49 · Open in the reader

Distressed Zion Relieved A47473

  • Printed
    Reduc'dReduced to fractions) into Atomes pass
    With rule
    Reduc'dReduced to fractions) into Atomes pass

    Benjamin Keach · Distressed Zion Relieved · p. 82 · Open in the reader

Paradise Lost A50919

  • Printed
    Reduc'dReduced thir shapes immense, and were at large,
    With rule
    Reduc'dReduced thir shapes immense, and were at large,

    John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader

A Token for Mariners A58039

  • Printed
    … much difficulty moſt of the People were ſav'd, and ſome Proviſions. Then were they Reduc'dReduced to very great ſtraits formidable to fleſh and blood, a Barren Iſland, no inhabitants …
    With rule
    … much difficulty moſt of the People were ſav'd, and ſome Proviſions. Then were they Reduc'dReduced to very great ſtraits formidable to fleſh and blood, a Barren Iſland, no inhabitants …

    James Janeway · A Token for Mariners · p. 22 · Open in the reader