Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39835 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

flatter'dflattered

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

Puritas changed it: 90 times in 73 works
Consistency: 93.7% (90 of 96)
Reach if approved: ~101 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: flattered
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 96 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (90 changes in 73 works, 93.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 90)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… all the World does ſee and muſt acknowledge: He is as much above being flatter'dflattered, as it is beneath an honeſt and a generous mind to flatter.
With rule
… all the World does ſee and muſt acknowledge: He is as much above being flatter'dflattered, as it is beneath an honeſt and a generous mind to flatter.
John Tillotson · Sermons and Discourses Volume 4 · p. 414 · Open in the reader
Printed
… c. though with variety of inſtance, and enlargement of the application. The people there flatter'dflattered themſelves with a conceit that GOD intended to give them peace in poſſeſſing the …
With rule
… c. though with variety of inſtance, and enlargement of the application. The people there flatter'dflattered themſelves with a conceit that GOD intended to give them peace in poſſeſſing the …
Herbert Palmer · The Glass of Gods Providence · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… our Saviours words, that ſuch an irreligious depravement no longer may be ſooth'd and flatter'dflattered through cuſtome, but with all diligence and ſpeed ſolidly refuted, and in the room …
With rule
… our Saviours words, that ſuch an irreligious depravement no longer may be ſooth'd and flatter'dflattered through cuſtome, but with all diligence and ſpeed ſolidly refuted, and in the room …
John Milton · Exposition Upon Marriage or Nullities of Marriage · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… man as much hates to fawn and flatter others, as he loves to be flatter'dflattered himself; yet let his pride but once work the other way, and set him …
With rule
… man as much hates to fawn and flatter others, as he loves to be flatter'dflattered himself; yet let his pride but once work the other way, and set him …
Richard Allestree · The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fatal mischievous consequences which became an astonishment to all. I confess, we are easily flatter'dflattered into irregularities, by fond presumptions that we could presently make all things much better …
With rule
… fatal mischievous consequences which became an astonishment to all. I confess, we are easily flatter'dflattered into irregularities, by fond presumptions that we could presently make all things much better …
Samuel Crossman · Sermon Preached 23 April 1680 · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… praefecturam gubernavit cum maximâ popularitate, ſequentem cum maximâ populatione. So our imperious Maſters were flatter'dflattered at firſt for Popularity, and hated in the end for Depopulation. And to put …
With rule
… praefecturam gubernavit cum maximâ popularitate, ſequentem cum maximâ populatione. So our imperious Maſters were flatter'dflattered at firſt for Popularity, and hated in the end for Depopulation. And to put …
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 191 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Herod thus impiouſly) do take the ready way to deſtroy the perſons ſo blaſphemouſly flatter'dflattered; for the great God will by no means admit of any Corrivals. (2.) No man …
With rule
… Herod thus impiouſly) do take the ready way to deſtroy the perſons ſo blaſphemouſly flatter'dflattered; for the great God will by no means admit of any Corrivals. (2.) No man …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 402 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Fawning Speeches, fit to draw in the weakest, and such as love to be flatter'dflattered; but what is there tending this way in all the Apostles Writings? How sharply …
With rule
… Fawning Speeches, fit to draw in the weakest, and such as love to be flatter'dflattered; but what is there tending this way in all the Apostles Writings? How sharply …
Edward Stillingfleet · Letter to a Deist · p. 32 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Of Christian Prudence A47306

Printed
… Brave Minds, are not in so much danger of being threaten'd and forced, as Flatter'dFlattered and Caress'd out of their integrity; suffering that Shipwrack of a good Conscience, many …
With rule
… Brave Minds, are not in so much danger of being threaten'd and forced, as Flatter'dFlattered and Caress'd out of their integrity; suffering that Shipwrack of a good Conscience, many …
John Kettlewell · Of Christian Prudence · p. 225 · Open in the reader