Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39548 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

abnersabner's

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

Puritas changed it: 148 times in 64 works
Consistency: 100% (148 of 148)
Reach if approved: ~156 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 148 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (148 changes in 64 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 148)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… to David on his behalf? ſaying, Whoſe is the land, &c.] This clauſe in AbnersAbner's meſſage to David, Whoſe is the land? might be meant two ſeverall wayes, to …
With rule
… to David on his behalf? ſaying, Whoſe is the land, &c.] This clauſe in AbnersAbner's meſſage to David, Whoſe is the land? might be meant two ſeverall wayes, to …
Arthur Jackson · Annotations Upon the Historical Books Part 2 · p. 344 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Judges; together with the Catastrophe Magnatum, or King Davids lament…t…on at Prince AbnersAbner's Incineration… by Iames Livesey, Minister of the Gospel at Atherton.
With rule
… Judges; together with the Catastrophe Magnatum, or King Davids lament…t…on at Prince AbnersAbner's Incineration… by Iames Livesey, Minister of the Gospel at Atherton.
George Swinnock · Works · Open in the reader
Printed
… though profitable sorrow, and repentance. In which respect they may fitly be compared to AbnersAbner's play, which began with pleasure, but ended with bitternesse; to Balthasers banquet, which began …
With rule
… though profitable sorrow, and repentance. In which respect they may fitly be compared to AbnersAbner's play, which began with pleasure, but ended with bitternesse; to Balthasers banquet, which began …
John Downame · The Christian Warfare Part 2 · p. 549 · Open in the reader
Printed
… beginning of your Booke; So that I will onely adde two things; They shewed AbnersAbner's neglect, by many petitions unto his Majesty, whereby they desired him not to put …
With rule
… beginning of your Booke; So that I will onely adde two things; They shewed AbnersAbner's neglect, by many petitions unto his Majesty, whereby they desired him not to put …
Charles Herle · Answer t o Doctor Fearne · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
Though AbnersAbner's armie was in good aray
With rule
Though AbnersAbner's armie was in good aray
Zacharie Boyd · The Garden of Zion · p. 163 · Open in the reader
Printed
… then of secret; of vipers that are farther of, then in our bosomes; of AbnersAbner's, though valiant, who professe hostilitie, then of trecherous Ioabs, who pretend amitie. First (in …
With rule
… then of secret; of vipers that are farther of, then in our bosomes; of AbnersAbner's, though valiant, who professe hostilitie, then of trecherous Ioabs, who pretend amitie. First (in …
John Rainolds · The Prophecy of Obadiah Opened and Applied · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… behind them the ſting of ſinne, they will, like the play of Ioab and AbnersAbner's ſouldiers, be bitter in the end, and not bring vnto the mind any laſting …
With rule
… behind them the ſting of ſinne, they will, like the play of Ioab and AbnersAbner's ſouldiers, be bitter in the end, and not bring vnto the mind any laſting …
John Downame · A Guide to Godliness · p. 267 · Open in the reader
Printed
… at Cudgels, especially fighting with sharp Weapons, much like the playing of Ioabs and AbnersAbner's men, who at length killed one another.
With rule
… at Cudgels, especially fighting with sharp Weapons, much like the playing of Ioabs and AbnersAbner's men, who at length killed one another.
Thomas Gouge · Christian Directions · p. 33 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.