Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39655 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

defin'ddefined

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

Puritas changed it: 120 times in 75 works
Consistency: 97.5% (120 of 123)
Reach if approved: ~129 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: defined
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 123 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (120 changes in 75 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 120)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… birthright, and seeing that from hence Aristotle and the best of Political writers have defin'ddefined a King, him who governs to the good and profit of his people, and …
With rule
… birthright, and seeing that from hence Aristotle and the best of Political writers have defin'ddefined a King, him who governs to the good and profit of his people, and …
John Milton · The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the wisdom of our Law-givers, who seem to think otherwise. Tradition is already defin'ddefined to us, a delivery down from hand to hand, of the sense and faith …
With rule
… the wisdom of our Law-givers, who seem to think otherwise. Tradition is already defin'ddefined to us, a delivery down from hand to hand, of the sense and faith …
John Tillotson · The Rule of Faith · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
And there you have the vertues all defin'ddefined.
With rule
And there you have the vertues all defin'ddefined.
Simeon Ashe · Living Loves Betwixt Christ and Dying Christians · p. 77 · Open in the reader
Printed
Her name defin'ddefined thee, gaue thee forme and frame,
With rule
Her name defin'ddefined thee, gaue thee forme and frame,
John Donne · The First Anniversary · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… equal parts and a Half part of Time are ſtill moſt clearly, and peremptorily defin'ddefined, that we may thereby be moſt aſſuredly guided in the Calculation, or Computation of …
With rule
… equal parts and a Half part of Time are ſtill moſt clearly, and peremptorily defin'ddefined, that we may thereby be moſt aſſuredly guided in the Calculation, or Computation of …
Thomas Beverley · The Kingdom of Jesus Christ Entering at 1697 · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… unconverted Babes, ſo uncapable of regeneration, as Jam. 1.18. 1 Pet. 1.23. Joh. 1.12, 13. And as ſo well defin'ddefined by Dr. Owen in his Theo. l. 6. c. 4 p. 480. viz. To be a Renovation …
With rule
… unconverted Babes, ſo uncapable of regeneration, as Jam. 1.18. 1 Pet. 1.23. Joh. 1.12, 13. And as ſo well defin'ddefined by Dr. Owen in his Theo. l. 6. c. 4 p. 480. viz. To be a Renovation …
Henry Danvers · Baptism · p. 257 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to preach. Afterward ſome years were abated for taking Prieſthood, yet peremptorily it was defin'ddefined (and never recalled, that I know, by any other Council) that none ſhould be …
With rule
… to preach. Afterward ſome years were abated for taking Prieſthood, yet peremptorily it was defin'ddefined (and never recalled, that I know, by any other Council) that none ſhould be …
John Hacket · A Century of Sermons · p. 150 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be too tame. This is that which we uſually call Virtue, and may be defin'ddefined Moderatrix Paſſionum; for this Definition ſufficiently opens the Nature and Condition of it: But …
With rule
… be too tame. This is that which we uſually call Virtue, and may be defin'ddefined Moderatrix Paſſionum; for this Definition ſufficiently opens the Nature and Condition of it: But …
John Hartcliffe · Treatise of Moral and Intellectual Virtues · p. 18 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

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

Abstract of Logic A30233

Printed
… are the ſame in Number, viz. 1. Synonymous Words, as Sword and Rapier. 2. Definition, and Defin'dDefined, as Man, and Rational Animal. 3. Subject and its Propriety, as Man and Riſible. 4. Subject …
With rule
… are the ſame in Number, viz. 1. Synonymous Words, as Sword and Rapier. 2. Definition, and Defin'dDefined, as Man, and Rational Animal. 3. Subject and its Propriety, as Man and Riſible. 4. Subject …
Franco Burgersdijck · Abstract of Logic · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Nature of the Dividend refuſes a Dichotomy, or Bimembrous Diviſion. The Diviſion of Whole, Defin'dDefined and Compos'd, muſt always be bimember'd. Diviſion of Genus, the fewer the better; but …
With rule
… Nature of the Dividend refuſes a Dichotomy, or Bimembrous Diviſion. The Diviſion of Whole, Defin'dDefined and Compos'd, muſt always be bimember'd. Diviſion of Genus, the fewer the better; but …
Franco Burgersdijck · Abstract of Logic · p. 19 · Open in the reader