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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39831 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

receav'dreceived

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

Puritas changed it
85 times in 12 works
Consistency
100% (85 of 85)
Reach if approved
~89 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: received
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
85 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (85 changes in 12 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 85)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … punishment too like that inflicted by the tyrant Mezentius; so little worthy to be receav'dreceived as that remedy of lonelines which God meant us. Since wee know it is …
    With rule
    … punishment too like that inflicted by the tyrant Mezentius; so little worthy to be receav'dreceived as that remedy of lonelines which God meant us. Since wee know it is …

    John Milton · Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … be baptized according to the inſtitution of Chriſt, which Baptiſme, when he hath once receav'dreceived, he cā in no way (as is before ſhewed) be ſayd to be rebaptiz'd …
    With rule
    … be baptized according to the inſtitution of Chriſt, which Baptiſme, when he hath once receav'dreceived, he cā in no way (as is before ſhewed) be ſayd to be rebaptiz'd …

    Henry Lawrence · Of Baptism · p. 342 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſtate of Piſa for their aid at ſea againſt the Normans of Sicily, was receav'dreceived as a rarity not to bee matcht. And although the Gothes, and after them …
    With rule
    … ſtate of Piſa for their aid at ſea againſt the Normans of Sicily, was receav'dreceived as a rarity not to bee matcht. And although the Gothes, and after them …

    John Milton · Exposition Upon Marriage or Nullities of Marriage · p. 89 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … estimation were to be made of Gods Law by their manners, who leaving Aegypt, receav'dreceived it in the Wilderness, it could reap from such an inference as this, nothing …
    With rule
    … estimation were to be made of Gods Law by their manners, who leaving Aegypt, receav'dreceived it in the Wilderness, it could reap from such an inference as this, nothing …

    John Milton · Answer to a Book · p. 156 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … to hide their Slavish approach to Gods behests by them not understood, nor worthily receav'dreceived, but by cloaking their Servile crouching to all Religious Presentments, somtimes lawfull, sometimes Idolatrous …
    With rule
    … to hide their Slavish approach to Gods behests by them not understood, nor worthily receav'dreceived, but by cloaking their Servile crouching to all Religious Presentments, somtimes lawfull, sometimes Idolatrous …

    John Milton · Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    I have receav'dreceived, to answer thy desire
    With rule
    I have receav'dreceived, to answer thy desire

    John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the dissolution of all tyranny. No marvel then if since the faith of Christ receav'dreceived, in purer or impurer times, to depose a King and put him to death …
    With rule
    … the dissolution of all tyranny. No marvel then if since the faith of Christ receav'dreceived, in purer or impurer times, to depose a King and put him to death …

    John Milton · The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … doth not belong to the civil Magistrate. Yet where the Gospel of Christ is receav'dreceived, the laws of Antichrist should be rejected. If therfore Kings and Governours take not …
    With rule
    … doth not belong to the civil Magistrate. Yet where the Gospel of Christ is receav'dreceived, the laws of Antichrist should be rejected. If therfore Kings and Governours take not …

    Martin Bucer · Concerning Divorce · p. 2 · 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.