Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39580 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

emperour'semperor'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 59 works
Consistency: 93.6% (148 of 158)
Reach if approved: ~166 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: emperor's
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 158 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: emperor (10)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (148 changes in 59 works, 93.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 148)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
The Publicans among the Jews, were ſuch as received and gathered up the Roman Emperour'sEmperor's Cuſtomes, Taxes, and Tribute, who were a very abomination to the Jews, they were …
With rule
The Publicans among the Jews, were ſuch as received and gathered up the Roman Emperour'sEmperor's Cuſtomes, Taxes, and Tribute, who were a very abomination to the Jews, they were …
William Gearing · Philadelphia · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Father; for Cyprian's it is not, as the mention of Dioclesian, and of the Emperour'sEmperor's war against the Turk, do fully evidence. Pamelius thinks it to be the work …
With rule
… Father; for Cyprian's it is not, as the mention of Dioclesian, and of the Emperour'sEmperor's war against the Turk, do fully evidence. Pamelius thinks it to be the work …
Jonathan Hanmer · A View of Antiquity Presented · p. 291 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for precedency, did prompt them, among other artifices, to fortify their pretensions by the Emperour'sEmperor's favour and suffrage. However this is very certain, that whether the Emperour'sEmperor's medling was …
With rule
… for precedency, did prompt them, among other artifices, to fortify their pretensions by the Emperour'sEmperor's favour and suffrage. However this is very certain, that whether the Emperour'sEmperor's medling was …
Robert McWard · The True Non-Conformist · p. 484 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Beſides theſe, there are other Schools, wherein the Young Men are Inſtructed in the Emperour'sEmperor's Laws, and thoſe that go on in their Learning, and take it well, are …
With rule
… Beſides theſe, there are other Schools, wherein the Young Men are Inſtructed in the Emperour'sEmperor's Laws, and thoſe that go on in their Learning, and take it well, are …
John Ray · A Collection of Curious Travels and Voyages · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
… himself. Origen and Tertullian tell us, that the Christians refused to swear by the Emperour'sEmperor's Genius; not because it was an Oath, but because they thought it to be …
With rule
… himself. Origen and Tertullian tell us, that the Christians refused to swear by the Emperour'sEmperor's Genius; not because it was an Oath, but because they thought it to be …
John Tillotson · Lawfulness and Obligation of Oaths · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
Balsamon's words of the Emperour'sEmperor's erecting many Metropoles. Of what times to be understood. foreign. Helenopontus. Paphlagonia. Phrygia Capatiana. Cappadocia …
With rule
Balsamon's words of the Emperour'sEmperor's erecting many Metropoles. Of what times to be understood. foreign. Helenopontus. Paphlagonia. Phrygia Capatiana. Cappadocia …
Henry Hammond · The Disarmers Dexterities Examined · p. 169 · Open in the reader
Printed
… renounced their Communion by resolved separation to his death; save that once at the Emperour'sEmperor's desire, he Communicated with them on condition the Emperour would spare the lives of …
With rule
… renounced their Communion by resolved separation to his death; save that once at the Emperour'sEmperor's desire, he Communicated with them on condition the Emperour would spare the lives of …
Richard Baxter · The English Nonconformity Under King Charles II and James II · p. 212 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Pulcheria resuses to let her go, challenging her to be her servant by the Emperour'sEmperor's own order: which he reading, repented of his rashnesse, and was made more wary …
With rule
… Pulcheria resuses to let her go, challenging her to be her servant by the Emperour'sEmperor's own order: which he reading, repented of his rashnesse, and was made more wary …
Samuel Clarke · A Mirror both for Saints and Sinners · p. 508 · 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.