Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39636 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pythagoras'spythagoras

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

Puritas changed it: 147 times in 15 works
Consistency: 83.0% (147 of 177)
Reach if approved: ~186 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 177 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (147 changes in 15 works, 83.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 147)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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… call Phyſicks, or Natural Philoſophie: Whereof there are two par…. 1. Contemplative. 2. Active. As for Pythagoras'sPythagoras skill in Contemplative Phyſicks, or Natural Science, it was indeed nothing elſe but the …
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… call Phyſicks, or Natural Philoſophie: Whereof there are two par…. 1. Contemplative. 2. Active. As for Pythagoras'sPythagoras skill in Contemplative Phyſicks, or Natural Science, it was indeed nothing elſe but the …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 162 · Open in the reader
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… reference to their foreign, Demon-worſhip. For the Explication whereof we may remember, that amongſt Pythagoras'sPythagoras Scholars foreign, ipſe dixit, HE SAID IT, i. e. Pythagoras, had the ſame weight and …
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… reference to their foreign, Demon-worſhip. For the Explication whereof we may remember, that amongſt Pythagoras'sPythagoras Scholars foreign, ipſe dixit, HE SAID IT, i. e. Pythagoras, had the ſame weight and …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 3 · p. 164 · Open in the reader
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… this Hiſtorian there gives them; yet I wiſh they would remember at leaſt old Pythagoras'sPythagoras Symbol, Sudorem ferro abſtergere, tetrum facinus. Which Plutarch (as a learned man tells us …
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… this Hiſtorian there gives them; yet I wiſh they would remember at leaſt old Pythagoras'sPythagoras Symbol, Sudorem ferro abſtergere, tetrum facinus. Which Plutarch (as a learned man tells us …
Joseph Hill · The Interest of These United Provinces · Open in the reader
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… much reproached by Lactantius, were all known in Cicero's, if not in Plato's, or Pythagoras'sPythagoras dayes. For this, conſult Cicero. Quaeſt. Acad. l. 2. "Habitari ait Xenophanes in Luna, eamque …
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… much reproached by Lactantius, were all known in Cicero's, if not in Plato's, or Pythagoras'sPythagoras dayes. For this, conſult Cicero. Quaeſt. Acad. l. 2. "Habitari ait Xenophanes in Luna, eamque …
Stephen Lobb · The Glory of Free Grace Displayed · p. x · Open in the reader
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Thirdly, Pythagoras'sPythagoras Stage play is ſoon Acted.
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Thirdly, Pythagoras'sPythagoras Stage play is ſoon Acted.
Christopher Ness · A Spiritual Legacy · p. 47 · Open in the reader
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Pythagoras'sPythagoras Mystick Philosophy revived, or the Mistery of Dreams. Unfolded by Tho. Tryon, Student in …
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Pythagoras'sPythagoras Mystick Philosophy revived, or the Mistery of Dreams. Unfolded by Tho. Tryon, Student in …
Gilbert Rule · A Vindication of the Church of Scotland 2 · Open in the reader
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… not what kind of addreſs to make to him, I muſt leave him to Pythagoras'sPythagoras Sponde's, that could cure a Mad man, foreign, rectifie the errours of his appetite firſt …
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… not what kind of addreſs to make to him, I muſt leave him to Pythagoras'sPythagoras Sponde's, that could cure a Mad man, foreign, rectifie the errours of his appetite firſt …
Henry Hammond · Works Volume 4 · p. 477 · Open in the reader
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… moſt rich Contents; like Gold, containing much value in a ſmall quantity; or like Pythagoras'sPythagoras letter Y, narrow at firſt ſight, but after a while of larger extenſion; or …
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… moſt rich Contents; like Gold, containing much value in a ſmall quantity; or like Pythagoras'sPythagoras letter Y, narrow at firſt ſight, but after a while of larger extenſion; or …
Thomas Hooker · A Treatise of Self Denial · p. 21 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (30)

28 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 are listed here. 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 A41659

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Pythagoras'sPythagoras extract from the Phenicians. 126
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Pythagoras'sPythagoras extract from the Phenicians. 126
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · Open in the reader
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CHAP. VI. Pythagoras'sPythagoras College, and Diſcipline from the Jews.
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CHAP. VI. Pythagoras'sPythagoras College, and Diſcipline from the Jews.
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 136 · Open in the reader
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… Society, or College as an Exoterique, or Probationer; as Iamblichus cap. 20. and Stanly of Pythagoras'sPythagoras Diſcipline chap 2.
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… Society, or College as an Exoterique, or Probationer; as Iamblichus cap. 20. and Stanly of Pythagoras'sPythagoras Diſcipline chap 2.
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 138 · Open in the reader
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§ 6. We have ſpoken of Pythagoras'sPythagoras Diſciples in common, as alſo of thoſe who belonged to his coenebium, or College …
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§ 6. We have ſpoken of Pythagoras'sPythagoras Diſciples in common, as alſo of thoſe who belonged to his coenebium, or College …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 142 · Open in the reader
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… Lyſis, whom Plato makes to be the ſubject of this diſcourſe of friendſhip, was Pythagoras'sPythagoras Scholar) foreign of Friendſhip, proving firſt that foreign Likeneſſe was the ground of all Friendſhip. 2. Thence …
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… Lyſis, whom Plato makes to be the ſubject of this diſcourſe of friendſhip, was Pythagoras'sPythagoras Scholar) foreign of Friendſhip, proving firſt that foreign Likeneſſe was the ground of all Friendſhip. 2. Thence …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 142 · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles Part 3 A41681

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… which was ſtuffed with Dogmes, Inſtitutes, Traditions, and Canons, which al who were of Pythagoras'sPythagoras Church or College ſubmitted unto, as their Canon-Law or Rule of Diſcipline; wherein …
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… which was ſtuffed with Dogmes, Inſtitutes, Traditions, and Canons, which al who were of Pythagoras'sPythagoras Church or College ſubmitted unto, as their Canon-Law or Rule of Diſcipline; wherein …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 3 · p. 164 · Open in the reader

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

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… Well-wiſhers, ſome thought him John Baptiſt revived, as Mat. 14.2. holding the Doctrine of Pythagoras'sPythagoras foreign, or Tranſanimation, others thought him Elias return'd, from the luſtre of his life in …
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… Well-wiſhers, ſome thought him John Baptiſt revived, as Mat. 14.2. holding the Doctrine of Pythagoras'sPythagoras foreign, or Tranſanimation, others thought him Elias return'd, from the luſtre of his life in …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 94 · Open in the reader

Works Volume 4 A70318

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… do ſo, if it be poſſible give one vital ſpring, and if but for Pythagoras'sPythagoras [foreign] for the reverence, (if not the charity) for the honour and awe you owe …
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… do ſo, if it be poſſible give one vital ſpring, and if but for Pythagoras'sPythagoras [foreign] for the reverence, (if not the charity) for the honour and awe you owe …
Henry Hammond · Works Volume 4 · p. 524 · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles A85480

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… or Patriarchs as we have proved in what follows of Thales's Philoſophie. Pherecydes Syrus Pythagoras'sPythagoras maſter aſſerted the ſame touching the ſouls foreign Immortalitie, and future ſtate, which he received …
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… or Patriarchs as we have proved in what follows of Thales's Philoſophie. Pherecydes Syrus Pythagoras'sPythagoras maſter aſſerted the ſame touching the ſouls foreign Immortalitie, and future ſtate, which he received …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles · p. 364 · Open in the reader