Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39805 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

perplex'dperplexed

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

Puritas changed it: 94 times in 71 works
Consistency: 95.9% (94 of 98)
Reach if approved: ~103 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: perplexed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 98 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (94 changes in 71 works, 95.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 94)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Cotta perplex'dperplexed with's wife a Cucule bought,
With rule
Cotta perplex'dperplexed with's wife a Cucule bought,
John Owen · Latin Epigrams Englished · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
There was in his Sermons no improper Rhetorick, nor such perplex'dperplexed divisions, as may be said to be like too much light, that so dazles …
With rule
There was in his Sermons no improper Rhetorick, nor such perplex'dperplexed divisions, as may be said to be like too much light, that so dazles …
Robert Sanderson · Thirty-Six Sermons · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… on from D…ledge… to Day, from Weeke to Weeke, ſhall find them ſo perplex'dperplexed and intricate in the en…ledge… that much paines taking will hardly ſ…redge …
With rule
… on from D…ledge… to Day, from Weeke to Weeke, ſhall find them ſo perplex'dperplexed and intricate in the en…ledge… that much paines taking will hardly ſ…redge …
Richard Gove · A Sovereign Salve · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Countenance! Let me live more poor and despicable than patient Iob upon his Dunghill, perplex'dperplexed with Boils, and and in a naked and dejected Deformity, so I may but …
With rule
… Countenance! Let me live more poor and despicable than patient Iob upon his Dunghill, perplex'dperplexed with Boils, and and in a naked and dejected Deformity, so I may but …
Richard Allestree · The Whole Duty of Divine Meditation · p. 83 · Open in the reader
Printed
… have ſaid, with Enſnaring Queſtions; For ſo Things moſt clear, moſt certain may be perplex'dperplexed, but either lay down by the ſame Scripture Contexture a contrary, or different Scheme …
With rule
… have ſaid, with Enſnaring Queſtions; For ſo Things moſt clear, moſt certain may be perplex'dperplexed, but either lay down by the ſame Scripture Contexture a contrary, or different Scheme …
Thomas Beverley · An Appeal by the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ · Open in the reader
Printed
… Wisdom and his Mercy: His Wisdom, when because our straits and entanglements are so perplex'dperplexed and intricate, that we see no way of winding our selves out of them …
With rule
… Wisdom and his Mercy: His Wisdom, when because our straits and entanglements are so perplex'dperplexed and intricate, that we see no way of winding our selves out of them …
John Conant · Sermons Preached on Several Occasions Volume 2 · p. 387 · Open in the reader
Printed
… him it would be ſo indeed, and that His Majeſty was much troubled and perplex'dperplexed about his Oaths. Preſently Town-Reports were Raiſed of great Oppoſition among the Lords …
With rule
… him it would be ſo indeed, and that His Majeſty was much troubled and perplex'dperplexed about his Oaths. Preſently Town-Reports were Raiſed of great Oppoſition among the Lords …
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 141 · Open in the reader
Printed
The World it is perplex'dperplexed;
With rule
The World it is perplex'dperplexed;
Benjamin Keach · Spiritual Melody · p. 357 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.