Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39730 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

excus'dexcused

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

Puritas changed it: 108 times in 84 works
Consistency: 95.5% (108 of 113)
Reach if approved: ~119 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: excused
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 113 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (108 changes in 84 works, 95.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 108)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… implied, though not intended, what is it but that they can very hardly be excus'dexcused from Idolatry?
With rule
… implied, though not intended, what is it but that they can very hardly be excus'dexcused from Idolatry?
Charles Drelincourt · Notes Upon Texts of Scripture and Popish Errors · p. 74 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a day of payment, ſhould, after he hath enjoy'd and ſpent the Commodity, be excus'dexcused from paying the price of it by pretending it was not really worth ſo …
With rule
… a day of payment, ſhould, after he hath enjoy'd and ſpent the Commodity, be excus'dexcused from paying the price of it by pretending it was not really worth ſo …
Henry Hammond · Judgment Worthy of God · p. 132 · Open in the reader
Printed
… natural Enemy, such an onset might in the rigor of Military Law have bin excus'dexcused, while Armes were not yet by agreement suspended, yet by a King, who seem'd …
With rule
… natural Enemy, such an onset might in the rigor of Military Law have bin excus'dexcused, while Armes were not yet by agreement suspended, yet by a King, who seem'd …
John Milton · Answer to a Book · p. 158 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sudden innovations, & questionlesse those who thus attempt the change of goverment may not be excus'dexcused from distaste at the governours, though never so much cloaked with the pretence of …
With rule
… sudden innovations, & questionlesse those who thus attempt the change of goverment may not be excus'dexcused from distaste at the governours, though never so much cloaked with the pretence of …
Edward Reynolds · Great Britains Distractions · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… intended to worſhip God and not a Creature; for ſo the Perſians might be excus'dexcused from Idolatry in worſhipping the Sun, becauſe they intend to worſhip God and not …
With rule
… intended to worſhip God and not a Creature; for ſo the Perſians might be excus'dexcused from Idolatry in worſhipping the Sun, becauſe they intend to worſhip God and not …
John Tillotson · Sermons and Discourses Volume 3 · p. 360 · Open in the reader
Printed
In humane Reaſon you may be excuſ'dexcused,
With rule
In humane Reaſon you may be excuſ'dexcused,
George Wither · Verses to the Kings Majesty · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Rareness of her features and pureness of complection: Being asked the reason, he thus excus'dexcused it; Mundi Crea orem admirabar; si enim rebus creatis tantum est formae, ipse opifex …
With rule
… Rareness of her features and pureness of complection: Being asked the reason, he thus excus'dexcused it; Mundi Crea orem admirabar; si enim rebus creatis tantum est formae, ipse opifex …
Robert Dingley · Divine Optics · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is an inseparable Faculty of the Soul, and even in the Heathen accus'd or excus'dexcused, as their Actions were exorbitant or regular according to the internal Law, and consequently …
With rule
… is an inseparable Faculty of the Soul, and even in the Heathen accus'd or excus'dexcused, as their Actions were exorbitant or regular according to the internal Law, and consequently …
William Bates · A Sure Trial of Uprightness · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

4 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.

The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama A15137

Printed
Excus'dExcused his ignorance, and ſharp reproofe,
With rule
Excus'dExcused his ignorance, and ſharp reproofe,
Nathaniel Whiting · The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama · p. 144 · Open in the reader

Invitations to the Gospel Feast N01506

Printed
… As theſe Objections againſt going to the Feaſt when Invited, or Deſires to be Excus'dExcused from going, may intimate the Unbelief of the generality of the Jews, they Rejected …
With rule
… As theſe Objections againſt going to the Feaſt when Invited, or Deſires to be Excus'dExcused from going, may intimate the Unbelief of the generality of the Jews, they Rejected …
Benjamin Wadsworth · Invitations to the Gospel Feast · p. 91 · Open in the reader
Printed
… me, ſhe gave me of the Tree, and I did eat. The Woman alſo Excus'dExcused her ſelf ſaying, v. 13. The Serpent beguiled me and I did eat. Tho' both …
With rule
… me, ſhe gave me of the Tree, and I did eat. The Woman alſo Excus'dExcused her ſelf ſaying, v. 13. The Serpent beguiled me and I did eat. Tho' both …
Benjamin Wadsworth · Invitations to the Gospel Feast · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Excuſes for their Sins, or the Neglect of their Duties. p. 111. Some would be Excus'dExcused from coming to Chriſt and Living to Him,
With rule
… Excuſes for their Sins, or the Neglect of their Duties. p. 111. Some would be Excus'dExcused from coming to Chriſt and Living to Him,
Benjamin Wadsworth · Invitations to the Gospel Feast · Open in the reader