Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39727 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mock'dmocked

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

Puritas changed it: 110 times in 84 works
Consistency: 94.8% (110 of 116)
Reach if approved: ~122 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: mocked
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 116 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (110 changes in 84 works, 94.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 110)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of their Fathers, it is said, 2 Chron. 29. 10. They laughed the Messengers to scorn. They mock'dmocked them, what, must we be wiser than our Fathers? See what answer is given …
With rule
… of their Fathers, it is said, 2 Chron. 29. 10. They laughed the Messengers to scorn. They mock'dmocked them, what, must we be wiser than our Fathers? See what answer is given …
John Maynard · A Memento to Young and Old · p. 170 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and so heinously provoked, should spare me to recover Strength? That when I had mock'dmocked him with so many cold and lazy Prayers, he should give me opportunity to …
With rule
… and so heinously provoked, should spare me to recover Strength? That when I had mock'dmocked him with so many cold and lazy Prayers, he should give me opportunity to …
Timothy Rogers · Practical Discourses on Sickness and Recovery · p. 169 · Open in the reader
Printed
… delivers him up to the people; and now he is stripped, and scourged, and mock'dmocked, with a Crown of Thorns, a Scarlet Robe, and a Reed in his hand …
With rule
… delivers him up to the people; and now he is stripped, and scourged, and mock'dmocked, with a Crown of Thorns, a Scarlet Robe, and a Reed in his hand …
Edward Stillingfleet · Six Sermons · p. 222 · Open in the reader
Printed
Laugh'd at and mock'dmocked his drunken fathers ſhame.
With rule
Laugh'd at and mock'dmocked his drunken fathers ſhame.
Edward Buckler · Midnights Meditations of Death · Open in the reader
Printed
… at first; when they discern their wants and expectations too deceived, themselves refus'd and mock'dmocked, find nothing but a Vizard for a Friend: nay, find an Enemy indeed, for …
With rule
… at first; when they discern their wants and expectations too deceived, themselves refus'd and mock'dmocked, find nothing but a Vizard for a Friend: nay, find an Enemy indeed, for …
Richard Allestree · Forty Sermons · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
Where thou ſhalt find thy hopes but mock'dmocked vaine truſt,
With rule
Where thou ſhalt find thy hopes but mock'dmocked vaine truſt,
Edward Calver · Divine Passions Piously and Pathetically Expressed · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
God is not mock'dmocked: fool not thy ſelf to Hell:
With rule
God is not mock'dmocked: fool not thy ſelf to Hell:
John Godolphin · The Holy Arbor · p. 240 · Open in the reader
Printed
… mistaken, deluded one, that makes you think, the God you pray to, will be mock'dmocked or trifl'd with, or that cannot perceive, whether your Heart be with him, or …
With rule
… mistaken, deluded one, that makes you think, the God you pray to, will be mock'dmocked or trifl'd with, or that cannot perceive, whether your Heart be with him, or …
John Howe · An Unconverted Mans Enmity Against God · p. 22 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.