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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39873 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wickliffeswycliffe's

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

Puritas changed it
79 times in 29 works
Consistency
100% (79 of 79)
Reach if approved
~83 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: wickliff's
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
79 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (79 changes in 29 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 79)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Next unto WickliffesWycliffe's Translation, was that of Iohn Trevisa, who undertooke and finished the Translation of the …
    With rule
    Next unto WickliffesWycliffe's Translation, was that of Iohn Trevisa, who undertooke and finished the Translation of the …

    John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … whole body of that Univerſity gave a glorious teſtimony under their publick ſeal of WickliffesWycliffe's religious life, profound learning, Orthodox opinions, exquiſite writings, all furtheſt from any ſtain of …
    With rule
    … whole body of that Univerſity gave a glorious teſtimony under their publick ſeal of WickliffesWycliffe's religious life, profound learning, Orthodox opinions, exquiſite writings, all furtheſt from any ſtain of …

    John Trapp · Commentary on Prov Ecc SoS Isa Jer Lam Eze Dan · p. 356 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſaith he) did make a complaint to the Parliament (which he ſets down in WickliffesWycliffe's words, Ah Lord God that people ſhould be conſtrained to find a worldly Prieſt …
    With rule
    … ſaith he) did make a complaint to the Parliament (which he ſets down in WickliffesWycliffe's words, Ah Lord God that people ſhould be conſtrained to find a worldly Prieſt …

    Immanuel Bourne · Defense and Justification of Tithes and Infant Baptism · p. 109 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Prayer ſhall be converting and regenerating, but onely confirming Ordinances▪ Since in Melanchtons and WickliffesWycliffe's opinions (to omit… others) they are and may be called Sacraments as well as …
    With rule
    … Prayer ſhall be converting and regenerating, but onely confirming Ordinances▪ Since in Melanchtons and WickliffesWycliffe's opinions (to omit… others) they are and may be called Sacraments as well as …

    William Prynne · Suspension Suspended · p. 33 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … them, in wreaking their malice againſt the profeſſors of the truth, both digged up WickliffesWycliffe's and Peter Martyrs wives, and Paulus Fagius their bones after they had been long …
    With rule
    … them, in wreaking their malice againſt the profeſſors of the truth, both digged up WickliffesWycliffe's and Peter Martyrs wives, and Paulus Fagius their bones after they had been long …

    Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 830 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … vs vnknowne. Neither was the myſterie of iniquity growne to that height till about WickliffesWycliffe's time, and the dayes of the ſucceeding Worthies, ſo that the Romane religion was …
    With rule
    … vs vnknowne. Neither was the myſterie of iniquity growne to that height till about WickliffesWycliffe's time, and the dayes of the ſucceeding Worthies, ſo that the Romane religion was …

    John Mayer · Antidote Against Popery · p. 69 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … quotation. I meruaile you bee not ashamed to sende vs for the report of WickliffesWycliffe's doctrine, to his so deadly enimies: one of the testimonies is fetched but from …
    With rule
    … quotation. I meruaile you bee not ashamed to sende vs for the report of WickliffesWycliffe's doctrine, to his so deadly enimies: one of the testimonies is fetched but from …

    Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Bucer ſcript. Anglic. pag. 254, 255, 259, 291. & ſequ. & Pet. Martyr. Loc. Commu. Claſ. 4. Loc. 1. ſect. 23 pag. 849. And WickliffesWycliffe's Arguments in Waldenſis Paſſim. And your own Caſſander Conſult. Artic. 14. ſaith [It is agreed …
    With rule
    … Bucer ſcript. Anglic. pag. 254, 255, 259, 291. & ſequ. & Pet. Martyr. Loc. Commu. Claſ. 4. Loc. 1. ſect. 23 pag. 849. And WickliffesWycliffe's Arguments in Waldenſis Paſſim. And your own Caſſander Conſult. Artic. 14. ſaith [It is agreed …

    Richard Baxter · A Key for Catholics · p. 211 · 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.