Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39436 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stop'dstopped

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

Puritas changed it: 196 times in 123 works
Consistency: 98.9% (196 of 198)
Reach if approved: ~208 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stopped
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 198 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (196 changes in 123 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 196)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… asserting the necessity of holding on their spiritual Ministrations, and not yielding to be stop'dstopped thereof by any State-deprivations.
With rule
… asserting the necessity of holding on their spiritual Ministrations, and not yielding to be stop'dstopped thereof by any State-deprivations.
John Kettlewell · Of Christian Communion · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Antonio's falling out among themſelves, the Parlament Decreed that the ſaid Goods ſhould be ſtop'dstopped till the Law ſhould decide to which of the two they were to be …
With rule
… Antonio's falling out among themſelves, the Parlament Decreed that the ſaid Goods ſhould be ſtop'dstopped till the Law ſhould decide to which of the two they were to be …
John Milton · Letters of State · p. 270 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſaith Peter Martyr) that 1. He could not cry out [Murder] when his Mouth was ſtop'dstopped with this cloath: And 2. There appear'd no wound upon Benhadad's Body▪ only his Breath …
With rule
… ſaith Peter Martyr) that 1. He could not cry out [Murder] when his Mouth was ſtop'dstopped with this cloath: And 2. There appear'd no wound upon Benhadad's Body▪ only his Breath …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 551 · Open in the reader
Printed
3. If evil thoughts ſtill preſſe in upon thee, if they will not be ſtop'dstopped nor diverted, break them off with ſome violence; if they be unreaſonable and juſtle …
With rule
3. If evil thoughts ſtill preſſe in upon thee, if they will not be ſtop'dstopped nor diverted, break them off with ſome violence; if they be unreaſonable and juſtle …
John Angel · The Right Government of Thoughts · p. 93 · Open in the reader
Printed
… two; for if it had proceeded to more than two, and had not been ſtop'dstopped or cut off, as the Hebrew ſignificantly, It had been three Times.
With rule
… two; for if it had proceeded to more than two, and had not been ſtop'dstopped or cut off, as the Hebrew ſignificantly, It had been three Times.
Thomas Beverley · A Scripture Line of Time · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… see it more, but in a new and living way, for the old is stop'dstopped up: all we have (our Food and raiment) is but lent us, we are …
With rule
… see it more, but in a new and living way, for the old is stop'dstopped up: all we have (our Food and raiment) is but lent us, we are …
Edmund Calamy · Saints Memorials · p. 249 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the Deane and Prebends, who filled their purses with that which should have stop'dstopped the chi…ks in the Wals, he sent a peremptory summons for all the …
With rule
… of the Deane and Prebends, who filled their purses with that which should have stop'dstopped the chi…ks in the Wals, he sent a peremptory summons for all the …
Thomas Fuller · The Dead Yet Speaking · p. 548 · Open in the reader
Printed
… And though one of them, about the ſtrict Keeping of the Sabbath, was then ſtop'dstopped, the Name of Sabbath being unſatisfactory to the King's Mind, yet Amends were made …
With rule
… And though one of them, about the ſtrict Keeping of the Sabbath, was then ſtop'dstopped, the Name of Sabbath being unſatisfactory to the King's Mind, yet Amends were made …
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 200 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.