Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39770 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

nourish'dnourished

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

Puritas changed it: 98 times in 73 works
Consistency: 97.0% (98 of 101)
Reach if approved: ~106 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: nourished
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 101 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (98 changes in 73 works, 97.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 98)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and draw Blood, but without any harm. Hence the Ancients might ſay, that Crete nouriſh'dnourished no poyſonous Animal.
With rule
… and draw Blood, but without any harm. Hence the Ancients might ſay, that Crete nouriſh'dnourished no poyſonous Animal.
John Ray · A Collection of Curious Travels and Voyages · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to hope for. Conſcience is as natural to them as Reaſon, and ſhould be nouriſh'dnourished up with it, and as we find in all other things, the younger, the …
With rule
… to hope for. Conſcience is as natural to them as Reaſon, and ſhould be nouriſh'dnourished up with it, and as we find in all other things, the younger, the …
Samuel Stodden · The Pastors Charge and the Peoples Duty · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
With ſcorne or ſhame, that him it nouriſh'dnourished not;
With rule
With ſcorne or ſhame, that him it nouriſh'dnourished not;
John Donne · Poems · p. 282 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet my conſtancy of minde to theirs is not inferiour, for wee were all nouriſh'dnourished up together, all together inſtructed, and wee will all die together in the fear …
With rule
… yet my conſtancy of minde to theirs is not inferiour, for wee were all nouriſh'dnourished up together, all together inſtructed, and wee will all die together in the fear …
Thomas White · The Power of Godliness · p. 403 · Open in the reader
Printed
… themſelves are unfruitful to God. The Air which they breathed in, the Food which nouriſh'dnourished them, the Clothes which cover'd them, the Houſes which they dwelt in, the Beaſts …
With rule
… themſelves are unfruitful to God. The Air which they breathed in, the Food which nouriſh'dnourished them, the Clothes which cover'd them, the Houſes which they dwelt in, the Beaſts …
Richard Baxter · Two Treatises to Awaken Secure Sinners · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
As He by him was nouriſh'dnourished being young;
With rule
As He by him was nouriſh'dnourished being young;
Daniel Cudmore · The History of Joseph · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be nouriſhed and ſtrengthened in us; Ex eiſdem nutrimur un de renaſcimur: we are nouriſh'dnourished by the ſame means as we are firſt born. The word of God, it …
With rule
… be nouriſhed and ſtrengthened in us; Ex eiſdem nutrimur un de renaſcimur: we are nouriſh'dnourished by the ſame means as we are firſt born. The word of God, it …
Thomas Horton · One Hundred Select Sermons · p. 101 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they cannot but tremble to think, that their dear lambs, whom they ſo tenderly nouriſh'dnourished and cheriſh'd, are in danger every moment to be caſt into the fire that …
With rule
… they cannot but tremble to think, that their dear lambs, whom they ſo tenderly nouriſh'dnourished and cheriſh'd, are in danger every moment to be caſt into the fire that …
Edward Lawrence · Parents Groans over their Wicked Children · p. 30 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

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

A Complete and Compendious Church History A52804

Printed
… Good nor Bad for Two full Years together, 2 Sam. 13. 22, 23. Yet all this time he Nouriſh'dNourished a Reſolution for Revenge, and onely waited for a fair opportunity to his foul …
With rule
… Good nor Bad for Two full Years together, 2 Sam. 13. 22, 23. Yet all this time he Nouriſh'dNourished a Reſolution for Revenge, and onely waited for a fair opportunity to his foul …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 17 · Open in the reader