Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39821 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

reubensreuben's

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

Puritas changed it: 87 times in 43 works
Consistency: 100% (87 of 87)
Reach if approved: ~91 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 87 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (87 changes in 43 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 87)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Gad obtained the third place, as he was ReubensReuben's companion in that famous Proteſtation of retaining the true worſhip of God: and moreover …
With rule
Gad obtained the third place, as he was ReubensReuben's companion in that famous Proteſtation of retaining the true worſhip of God: and moreover …
Joseph Mede · The Key of the Revelation · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
… out of joynt, weak and contemptible: well might there be searchings of heart for ReubensReuben's divisions.
With rule
… out of joynt, weak and contemptible: well might there be searchings of heart for ReubensReuben's divisions.
Samuel Willard · Sermon Upon the Death of Jon Leveret · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
Now ſee ReubensReuben's particular good deeds.
With rule
Now ſee ReubensReuben's particular good deeds.
William Whately · Prototypes · p. 141 · Open in the reader
Printed
… own mother, but thy stepmother: of this incest you may see 1 Cor. 5. 1. it was ReubensReuben's sin, Gen. 35. 22.
With rule
… own mother, but thy stepmother: of this incest you may see 1 Cor. 5. 1. it was ReubensReuben's sin, Gen. 35. 22.
John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader
Printed
… a new faith, and a new religion, every year, if not every Moneth. Remember ReubensReuben's reproach, Gen, 49. 4. unstable as water, thou shall not excell. One sort of the Sectaries …
With rule
… a new faith, and a new religion, every year, if not every Moneth. Remember ReubensReuben's reproach, Gen, 49. 4. unstable as water, thou shall not excell. One sort of the Sectaries …
George Gillespie · Treatise of Miscellaneous Questions · p. 140 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not pity your own unſtable ſouls? Is it nothing to you, to be under ReubensReuben's reproach? Ʋnſtable as water, thou ſhalt not excel. A double minded Man is unſtable …
With rule
… not pity your own unſtable ſouls? Is it nothing to you, to be under ReubensReuben's reproach? Ʋnſtable as water, thou ſhalt not excel. A double minded Man is unſtable …
Thomas Mall · The Axe at the Root of Professors Miscarriages · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is it not therefore that war is in our gates; The ſetting up of ReubensReuben's Altar had preſently ſtirred up war againſt them, if the miſpriſion had not been …
With rule
… is it not therefore that war is in our gates; The ſetting up of ReubensReuben's Altar had preſently ſtirred up war againſt them, if the miſpriſion had not been …
Richard Vines · Sermons · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to lodge, or entertain any ſinfull thoughts in thy mind: Sinful thoughts are the ReubensReuben's, the firſt-born of originall ſin, and the beginning of its ſtrength. They exceedingly …
With rule
… to lodge, or entertain any ſinfull thoughts in thy mind: Sinful thoughts are the ReubensReuben's, the firſt-born of originall ſin, and the beginning of its ſtrength. They exceedingly …
Samuel Cradock · Knowledge and Practice · p. 231 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.