Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39598 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

simeonssimeon's

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

Puritas changed it: 133 times in 99 works
Consistency: 100% (133 of 133)
Reach if approved: ~140 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: simeon's
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 133 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (133 changes in 99 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 133)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… for those things which in the Gospell are promised. This was the ground of SimeonsSimeon's hope, Luke 2.25. We have no reason to hope for any thing which is not …
With rule
… for those things which in the Gospell are promised. This was the ground of SimeonsSimeon's hope, Luke 2.25. We have no reason to hope for any thing which is not …
Edward Leigh · Treatise of the Divine Promises · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… there Simeonites had certain cities and villages, Josh. 19. 9. And that not so much for SimeonsSimeon's sake, as because Judah had too much. So Simeon was but an Inmate to …
With rule
… there Simeonites had certain cities and villages, Josh. 19. 9. And that not so much for SimeonsSimeon's sake, as because Judah had too much. So Simeon was but an Inmate to …
John Richardson · Observations Upon the Old Testament · Open in the reader
Printed
In theſe words are two things: SimeonsSimeon's ſight, and SimeonsSimeon's ioy: His ſight, Mine eyes haue ſeene thy ſaluation: His ioy, Lord now letteſt …
With rule
In theſe words are two things: SimeonsSimeon's ſight, and SimeonsSimeon's ioy: His ſight, Mine eyes haue ſeene thy ſaluation: His ioy, Lord now letteſt …
John Mayer · A Pattern for Women · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but graced with a starre, and the testimony of Angells: and his circumcision with SimeonsSimeon's. His baptisme performed by Iohn in Iordan, but graced by his Fathers testimony, and …
With rule
… but graced with a starre, and the testimony of Angells: and his circumcision with SimeonsSimeon's. His baptisme performed by Iohn in Iordan, but graced by his Fathers testimony, and …
Thomas Taylor · Christs Combat and Conquest · p. 363 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Lord: In Zacharies Benedictus; Bleſſed be the Lord God of Iſrael; and in SimeonsSimeon's, Nunc dimittis, Lord, now letteſt thou thy ſeruant depart in peace. This world began …
With rule
… the Lord: In Zacharies Benedictus; Bleſſed be the Lord God of Iſrael; and in SimeonsSimeon's, Nunc dimittis, Lord, now letteſt thou thy ſeruant depart in peace. This world began …
John Donne · Five Sermons 1 · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Thus is Iesus Christ (who is the proper subject of the Gospel) according to SimeonsSimeon's Prophesie at his Birth, Luk. 2. 34. Behold (saith he) this childe is set for the …
With rule
… Thus is Iesus Christ (who is the proper subject of the Gospel) according to SimeonsSimeon's Prophesie at his Birth, Luk. 2. 34. Behold (saith he) this childe is set for the …
John Brinsley · Two Treatises 3 · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sweet submission to Gods blessed will; for though none needs to wonder much of SimeonsSimeon's willingnesse to die when he hath gotten Christ in his armes, yet it hath …
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… sweet submission to Gods blessed will; for though none needs to wonder much of SimeonsSimeon's willingnesse to die when he hath gotten Christ in his armes, yet it hath …
James Durham · The Blessedness of the Death of These that Die in the Lord · p. 83 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for they see: (without adding the rest, and your ears, for they hear) and SimeonsSimeon's words, Mine eyes have seen thy salvation, as if forsooth either Simeon or the …
With rule
… for they see: (without adding the rest, and your ears, for they hear) and SimeonsSimeon's words, Mine eyes have seen thy salvation, as if forsooth either Simeon or the …
George Gillespie · Aarons Rod Blossoming · p. 532 · 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.