Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39720 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

samuel'ssamuel

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

Puritas changed it: 151 times in 60 works
Consistency: 69.9% (151 of 216)
Reach if approved: ~227 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 216 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (151 changes in 60 works, 69.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 151)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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… neſt, or as Prodigals from our Fathers houſe, but now, now at length by Samuel'sSamuel Prophecy we are throughly informed that God is the true God, that this his …
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… neſt, or as Prodigals from our Fathers houſe, but now, now at length by Samuel'sSamuel Prophecy we are throughly informed that God is the true God, that this his …
Oliver Heywood · Israels Lamentation After the Lord · p. 26 · Open in the reader
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Chiefly this concerneth Ministers for their Charge; they should be of Samuel'sSamuel temper, tho he had received Affronts from Israel; God forbid that I should sin …
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Chiefly this concerneth Ministers for their Charge; they should be of Samuel'sSamuel temper, tho he had received Affronts from Israel; God forbid that I should sin …
Thomas Manton · Sermons Volume 2 · p. 104 · Open in the reader
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… paint… HOlineſs: he is ſeemingly good, that he may be really b…d. In Samuel'sSamuel Mantle he plays the Devil therefore the ſame word in the Original ſignifies to …
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… paint… HOlineſs: he is ſeemingly good, that he may be really b…d. In Samuel'sSamuel Mantle he plays the Devil therefore the ſame word in the Original ſignifies to …
Simon Patrick · Friendly Debate with Non-Conformist · p. 22 · Open in the reader
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Like Samuel'sSamuel Stone, erst Eben-Ezer hight;
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Like Samuel'sSamuel Stone, erst Eben-Ezer hight;
Samuel Stone · A Congregational Church · Open in the reader
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Queſtionleſs all Scripture is precious, and the Lord would let none of Samuel'sSamuel words, much leſs would he let any of his own words fall to the …
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Queſtionleſs all Scripture is precious, and the Lord would let none of Samuel'sSamuel words, much leſs would he let any of his own words fall to the …
Dean Henry Wilkinson · Counsels and Comforts for Troubled Consciences · p. 39 · Open in the reader
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… their heads, he deſired not their ruine: for (queſtionleſſe) he was better acquainted with Samuel'sSamuel Rule (if he had not too much (through paſſion) forgot himſelf), 1 Sam. 12.23. God forbid …
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… their heads, he deſired not their ruine: for (queſtionleſſe) he was better acquainted with Samuel'sSamuel Rule (if he had not too much (through paſſion) forgot himſelf), 1 Sam. 12.23. God forbid …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Figless Fig Tree · p. 348 · Open in the reader
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… assume larget pretences of Sanctity, appearing like the Devil at Endor, in the Prophet Samuel'sSamuel Mantle, performing some things externally good, whereby they may atchieve some greater Evil. Even …
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… assume larget pretences of Sanctity, appearing like the Devil at Endor, in the Prophet Samuel'sSamuel Mantle, performing some things externally good, whereby they may atchieve some greater Evil. Even …
Richard Allestree · The Government of the Thoughts · p. 44 · Open in the reader
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… came under from time to time, in Moſes time at Horeb, Joſhua's, the Judges, Samuel'sSamuel, eſpecially, David's, and the reſt of the Reforming Kings, remarkably by Joſiah, and after …
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… came under from time to time, in Moſes time at Horeb, Joſhua's, the Judges, Samuel'sSamuel, eſpecially, David's, and the reſt of the Reforming Kings, remarkably by Joſiah, and after …
Isaac Chauncy · A Plain and Familiar Christian Conference · p. 46 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (65)

22 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 17 are listed here. 43 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Treatise of Original Sin A30247

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… hath not the colour (at leaſt) of ſome good. As the Devil appeared in Samuel'sSamuel cloaths, and ſo was believed to be Samuel; Thus doth all the evil in …
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… hath not the colour (at leaſt) of ſome good. As the Devil appeared in Samuel'sSamuel cloaths, and ſo was believed to be Samuel; Thus doth all the evil in …
Anthony Burgess · A Treatise of Original Sin · p. 273 · Open in the reader

Defense of the People of England A50893

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… Government, as beſt and moſt proper for that people; what ſhall we ſay to Samuel'sSamuel oppoſing it, and God's own acting, as if himſelf were againſt it? How do …
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… Government, as beſt and moſt proper for that people; what ſhall we ſay to Samuel'sSamuel oppoſing it, and God's own acting, as if himſelf were againſt it? How do …
John Milton · Defense of the People of England · p. 43 · Open in the reader
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… impiety againſt God, he endeavours to diſentangle himſelf. We muſt conſider, ſays he That Samuel'sSamuel own Sons then Judged the people, and the people rejected them becauſe of their …
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… impiety againſt God, he endeavours to diſentangle himſelf. We muſt conſider, ſays he That Samuel'sSamuel own Sons then Judged the people, and the people rejected them becauſe of their …
John Milton · Defense of the People of England · p. 43 · Open in the reader

A Complete and Compendious Church History A52804

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… the Church in Old Eli's Male-Adminiſtration, he Loſt it All again in Young Samuel'sSamuel Godly Reformation. So that here again Divine Diſpenſations towards the Church (concerning Sorrows and …
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… the Church in Old Eli's Male-Adminiſtration, he Loſt it All again in Young Samuel'sSamuel Godly Reformation. So that here again Divine Diſpenſations towards the Church (concerning Sorrows and …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 112 · Open in the reader
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… Phinehas (Two Prieſts had not done, 1 Sam. 2. 12. This was (no doubt) The Fruit of Samuel'sSamuel Pray'r, (in whom the Lord Reſtored the loſt Spirit of Prophecy; hence is he …
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… Phinehas (Two Prieſts had not done, 1 Sam. 2. 12. This was (no doubt) The Fruit of Samuel'sSamuel Pray'r, (in whom the Lord Reſtored the loſt Spirit of Prophecy; hence is he …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 122 · Open in the reader

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

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CHapter The Third, is, a Narrative of Samuel'sSamuel Divine Call to his Prophetical Office. Wherein,
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CHapter The Third, is, a Narrative of Samuel'sSamuel Divine Call to his Prophetical Office. Wherein,
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 223 · Open in the reader
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… praying for themſelves, but begs Samuel to ſave them from Death. (2.) They call themſelves Samuel'sSamuel Servants, when they had deſerted his ſervice, and betaken themſelves to a New, and …
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… praying for themſelves, but begs Samuel to ſave them from Death. (2.) They call themſelves Samuel'sSamuel Servants, when they had deſerted his ſervice, and betaken themſelves to a New, and …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 248 · Open in the reader
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… Sacrificed to the Lord [thy] not [my] God;] not doubting, but Saul's reſpect to Samuel'sSamuel God, would be very pleaſing to him; thus Piety is pretended oft-times for …
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… Sacrificed to the Lord [thy] not [my] God;] not doubting, but Saul's reſpect to Samuel'sSamuel God, would be very pleaſing to him; thus Piety is pretended oft-times for …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 258 · Open in the reader
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… ſo blinded Saul's Eyes for his greater condemnation, that he verily believed Satan (in Samuel'sSamuel Shape, and Garb, and Acting his Part,) was the very real Samuel raiſed from …
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… ſo blinded Saul's Eyes for his greater condemnation, that he verily believed Satan (in Samuel'sSamuel Shape, and Garb, and Acting his Part,) was the very real Samuel raiſed from …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 325 · Open in the reader
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… horrible Butchery of the Lord's holy Prieſts; Nor would they take any warning at Samuel'sSamuel Sermon▪ ſaying to them, [If you do wickedly ſtill, ye ſhall be conſumed both …
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… horrible Butchery of the Lord's holy Prieſts; Nor would they take any warning at Samuel'sSamuel Sermon▪ ſaying to them, [If you do wickedly ſtill, ye ſhall be conſumed both …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 332 · Open in the reader

Saul and David Compared A61680

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… God of Daniel, D…n. 6. 20; but Saul alſo (a common Iſraelite) doth call him Samuel'sSamuel God, in a way of Diſtinction from himſelf, 1 Sam. 15. 15. And though others may have …
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… God of Daniel, D…n. 6. 20; but Saul alſo (a common Iſraelite) doth call him Samuel'sSamuel God, in a way of Diſtinction from himſelf, 1 Sam. 15. 15. And though others may have …
Benjamin Stonham · Saul and David Compared · p. 169 · Open in the reader

Thirty-Six Sermons A62128

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… Samuel for his Precedent; no colour to shroud his miscarriages under the authority of Samuel'sSamuel Example.
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… Samuel for his Precedent; no colour to shroud his miscarriages under the authority of Samuel'sSamuel Example.
Robert Sanderson · Thirty-Six Sermons · p. 639 · Open in the reader
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19. Thus much of Samuel'sSamuel confidence. See we next, what the things are he doth with so much confidence …
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19. Thus much of Samuel'sSamuel confidence. See we next, what the things are he doth with so much confidence …
Robert Sanderson · Thirty-Six Sermons · p. 641 · Open in the reader
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25. It ought to be the care of every private Man, thus far to follow Samuel'sSamuel example, that he keep himself from doing any Man wrong. But Men that are …
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25. It ought to be the care of every private Man, thus far to follow Samuel'sSamuel example, that he keep himself from doing any Man wrong. But Men that are …
Robert Sanderson · Thirty-Six Sermons · p. 643 · Open in the reader
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… by my Agents, Titus or any other that I sent unto you. Much like Samuel'sSamuel challenge here. Whom have I defraud?
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… by my Agents, Titus or any other that I sent unto you. Much like Samuel'sSamuel challenge here. Whom have I defraud?
Robert Sanderson · Thirty-Six Sermons · p. 644 · Open in the reader
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… spoken to from the Text, and that but in a word or two, is Samuel'sSamuel Equity, in offering, in case any thing should be truly charged against him in …
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… spoken to from the Text, and that but in a word or two, is Samuel'sSamuel Equity, in offering, in case any thing should be truly charged against him in …
Robert Sanderson · Thirty-Six Sermons · p. 650 · Open in the reader

Works Volume 4 A70318

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… in the buſineſs of Coreh, the plague was ſtayed. A third 1 Sam. 7. where upon Samuel'sSamuel burnt-offering v. 9. and prayer v. 5. and crying importunately and conſtantly to God for …
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… in the buſineſs of Coreh, the plague was ſtayed. A third 1 Sam. 7. where upon Samuel'sSamuel burnt-offering v. 9. and prayer v. 5. and crying importunately and conſtantly to God for …
Henry Hammond · Works Volume 4 · p. 280 · Open in the reader