Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39566 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ascrib'dascribed

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

Puritas changed it: 148 times in 90 works
Consistency: 96.1% (148 of 154)
Reach if approved: ~162 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ascribed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 154 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 90 works, 96.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 148)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Let all the Glory be aſcrib'dascribed,
With rule
Let all the Glory be aſcrib'dascribed,
Benjamin Keach · Spiritual Songs · p. 72 · Open in the reader
Printed
… old, too much neglected, hath bin our mischief. Yet the cause therof may be ascrib'dascribed with most reason to the frequent disturbances, interruptions and dissolutions which the Parlament hath …
With rule
… old, too much neglected, hath bin our mischief. Yet the cause therof may be ascrib'dascribed with most reason to the frequent disturbances, interruptions and dissolutions which the Parlament hath …
John Milton · The Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the Rest and Happiness of the Righteous: Which however, directly overthrows the Opinion ascrib'dascribed to Origen that the Devils and wicked men shall all be saved at last …
With rule
… of the Rest and Happiness of the Righteous: Which however, directly overthrows the Opinion ascrib'dascribed to Origen that the Devils and wicked men shall all be saved at last …
John Tillotson · Sermon on 7 March 1689 · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
But, have aſcrib'dascribed a kinde of God-head, to them:
With rule
But, have aſcrib'dascribed a kinde of God-head, to them:
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 161 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it, was by his own fault. As the Obliquity of a Line cannot be ascrib'dascribed to the strait Rule, but to the Error of the Hand that draws it …
With rule
… it, was by his own fault. As the Obliquity of a Line cannot be ascrib'dascribed to the strait Rule, but to the Error of the Hand that draws it …
William Bates · The Four Last Things · p. 166 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Men with a falſe ſenſual Religion, their lying or magical and Necromantick Miracles, aſcrib'dascribed to Relicks, Images, and the Idolized Host, nor of their Fornications, allowed Concubinacies and …
With rule
… of Men with a falſe ſenſual Religion, their lying or magical and Necromantick Miracles, aſcrib'dascribed to Relicks, Images, and the Idolized Host, nor of their Fornications, allowed Concubinacies and …
Thomas Beverley · A Scripture Line of Time · p. 157 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of sight there; [He lift up his Eyes]. Bodily Members and sensible Acts are ascrib'dascribed in Scripture to separate Souls, only by way of Allusion, as they are likewise …
With rule
… of sight there; [He lift up his Eyes]. Bodily Members and sensible Acts are ascrib'dascribed in Scripture to separate Souls, only by way of Allusion, as they are likewise …
Timothy Cruso · Discourses Upon the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… well, not a meerly judicious, but complacential approbation: The word, whence comes the foreign often ascrib'dascribed to God in Scripture; which signifies the high satisfaction he takes in all his …
With rule
… well, not a meerly judicious, but complacential approbation: The word, whence comes the foreign often ascrib'dascribed to God in Scripture; which signifies the high satisfaction he takes in all his …
John Howe · Funeral Sermon for Margaret Baxter · p. 3 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Emblems Ancient and Modern A15631

Printed
Aſcrib'dAscribed, for ever, let all Prayſes bee.
With rule
Aſcrib'dAscribed, for ever, let all Prayſes bee.
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 89 · Open in the reader