Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39467 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

disturb'ddisturbed

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

Puritas changed it: 183 times in 119 works
Consistency: 97.3% (183 of 188)
Reach if approved: ~198 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: disturbed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 188 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (183 changes in 119 works, 97.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 183)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… not be put into doubts and scruples with i…, since their state is not disturb'ddisturbed, nor their Souls at all endanger'd by it.
With rule
… not be put into doubts and scruples with i…, since their state is not disturb'ddisturbed, nor their Souls at all endanger'd by it.
John Kettlewell · Worthy Communicating · p. 298 · Open in the reader
Printed
Yet ſtay, be not diſturb'ddisturbed, now I bethink me,
With rule
Yet ſtay, be not diſturb'ddisturbed, now I bethink me,
John Milton · Poems · p. 120 · Open in the reader
Printed
… praesage by breaking his command. And as the Oeconomical order and peace is thus disturb'ddisturbed, so if he that misses quiet at home should seek for it abroad, he …
With rule
… praesage by breaking his command. And as the Oeconomical order and peace is thus disturb'ddisturbed, so if he that misses quiet at home should seek for it abroad, he …
Richard Allestree · The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety · p. 315 · Open in the reader
Printed
… themselves by a voluntary easy Death, and fall into a sleep never to be disturb'ddisturbed; so that they would be esteem'd the only happy persons.
With rule
… themselves by a voluntary easy Death, and fall into a sleep never to be disturb'ddisturbed; so that they would be esteem'd the only happy persons.
William Bates · The Existence of God and the Immortality of the Soul · p. 207 · Open in the reader
Printed
Yet ill-diſpoſed men the Peace diſturb'ddisturbed;
With rule
Yet ill-diſpoſed men the Peace diſturb'ddisturbed;
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… look towards thee, nor regard thee. Having ſaid thus, and finding his ſpirit ſomething diſturb'ddisturbed at the thoughts of Jehoram's Idolatry, he calls for a Minſtril, that is, one …
With rule
… look towards thee, nor regard thee. Having ſaid thus, and finding his ſpirit ſomething diſturb'ddisturbed at the thoughts of Jehoram's Idolatry, he calls for a Minſtril, that is, one …
Samuel Cradock · The History of the Old Testament Methodized · p. 551 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not be let to run at random upon other things, it must not be disturb'ddisturbed by any Passion, nor confounded with any throng of Business, but there must be …
With rule
… not be let to run at random upon other things, it must not be disturb'ddisturbed by any Passion, nor confounded with any throng of Business, but there must be …
Clement Ellis · The Necessity of Serious Consideration and Speedy Repentance · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
I Perceive your Mind is disturb'ddisturbed, which my Friendship with you can no more let me be unconcern'd for, than …
With rule
I Perceive your Mind is disturb'ddisturbed, which my Friendship with you can no more let me be unconcern'd for, than …
John Howe · Answer to Stillingfleets Mischief of Separation · p. 1 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

3 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.

Letters of State A50909

Printed
… no ſmall grief, That ſeveral Proteſtant Churches in Provence, were ſo maliciouſly Affronted and Diſturb'dDisturbed by a certain turbulent Humouriſt, that the Magiſtrates at Grenoble, who are the proper …
With rule
… no ſmall grief, That ſeveral Proteſtant Churches in Provence, were ſo maliciouſly Affronted and Diſturb'dDisturbed by a certain turbulent Humouriſt, that the Magiſtrates at Grenoble, who are the proper …
John Milton · Letters of State · p. 329 · Open in the reader

Paradise Regained A50931

Printed
Disturb'dDisturbed his sleep; and either Tropic now
With rule
Disturb'dDisturbed his sleep; and either Tropic now
John Milton · Paradise Regained · p. 99 · Open in the reader

Improvement of Imprisonment A66756

Printed
Diſturb'dDisturbed, by ſome of thoſe, who were brought in
With rule
Diſturb'dDisturbed, by ſome of thoſe, who were brought in
George Wither · Improvement of Imprisonment · p. 37 · Open in the reader