Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39785 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

transferr'dtransferred

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

Puritas changed it: 98 times in 65 works
Consistency: 94.2% (98 of 104)
Reach if approved: ~109 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: transferred
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 104 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 65 works, 94.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 98)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and groan of in-dwelling Sin? as Rom. 7. If Sin it self be so transferr'dtransferred from them to Christ? Sure, unless Men will dare to say, the same Acts …
With rule
… and groan of in-dwelling Sin? as Rom. 7. If Sin it self be so transferr'dtransferred from them to Christ? Sure, unless Men will dare to say, the same Acts …
John Flavel · Discourse of Mental Errors · p. 833 · Open in the reader
Printed
… unwarrantable and injuririous that a word of that import should be so misapplied and transferr'dtransferred from the substance, to signifie nothing but the shadow, rather, of Being. And that …
With rule
… unwarrantable and injuririous that a word of that import should be so misapplied and transferr'dtransferred from the substance, to signifie nothing but the shadow, rather, of Being. And that …
John Howe · The Living Temple · p. 174 · Open in the reader
Printed
… given to no People but the People of Iſrael: That the Moral Law is transferr'dtransferred from Moſes into the Hand of Chriſt as Mediator.
With rule
… given to no People but the People of Iſrael: That the Moral Law is transferr'dtransferred from Moſes into the Hand of Chriſt as Mediator.
Benjamin Keach · The Jewish Sabbath Abrogated · p. 125 · Open in the reader
Printed
Full weight must be transferr'dtransferred upon my head.
With rule
Full weight must be transferr'dtransferred upon my head.
John Milton · Paradise Regained · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… selling, giving, exchanging, and the like, wherein the right and property of things is transferr'dtransferred from one Man to another, by delivering and taking (foreign) what were it else, but …
With rule
… selling, giving, exchanging, and the like, wherein the right and property of things is transferr'dtransferred from one Man to another, by delivering and taking (foreign) what were it else, but …
Robert Sanderson · Thirty-Six Sermons · p. 641 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhews ingenuity and acuteneſſe of wit ſo to compoſe a diſcourſe, therefore it is transferr'dtransferred to expreſſe the ſubtilty of Satan in laying of his plots and ſtratagems, in …
With rule
… ſhews ingenuity and acuteneſſe of wit ſo to compoſe a diſcourſe, therefore it is transferr'dtransferred to expreſſe the ſubtilty of Satan in laying of his plots and ſtratagems, in …
William Gurnall · The Christians in Complete Armor · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ergo what an abſurdity ariſeth out of frée-wil? therfore if I had not tranſferr'dtransferred the whole intereſt of things ere now to the Diuine prouidence of God, yet …
With rule
… Ergo what an abſurdity ariſeth out of frée-wil? therfore if I had not tranſferr'dtransferred the whole intereſt of things ere now to the Diuine prouidence of God, yet …
Arthur Dent · The Opening of Heaven Gates · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a criminal, whom he had a mind to deliver from a deſerv'd puniſhment. God transferr'dtransferred the ſins of men upon Chriſt, and inflicted on him a puniſhment for them …
With rule
… a criminal, whom he had a mind to deliver from a deſerv'd puniſhment. God transferr'dtransferred the ſins of men upon Chriſt, and inflicted on him a puniſhment for them …
Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 750 · 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.