Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39890 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

melancthonsmelanchthon's

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

Puritas changed it: 77 times in 49 works
Consistency: 100% (77 of 77)
Reach if approved: ~81 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 77 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (77 changes in 49 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 77)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Of these MelancthonsMelanchthon's Distich is memorable.
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Of these MelancthonsMelanchthon's Distich is memorable.
Edward Leigh · Treatise of Religion and Learning · p. 236 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they that know what was Luthers vehemency and pertinacy on the one side, and MelancthonsMelanchthon's timerousnesse on the other side, may well conceive, …hat as in the businesse of …
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… they that know what was Luthers vehemency and pertinacy on the one side, and MelancthonsMelanchthon's timerousnesse on the other side, may well conceive, …hat as in the businesse of …
John Tombes · Examination of Marshalls Sermon About Infant Baptism · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… man is too high to give thanks to the Higheſt: Wee will thinke on MelancthonsMelanchthon's words, when wee make a feaſt or partake of it: we muſt be thankefull …
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… man is too high to give thanks to the Higheſt: Wee will thinke on MelancthonsMelanchthon's words, when wee make a feaſt or partake of it: we muſt be thankefull …
Hezekiah Woodward · A Light to Grammar and All Other Arts and Sciences · p. 89 · Open in the reader
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… in his little finger, then all wee have in our bodies. He read over MelancthonsMelanchthon's common places; All Tullies works: the greatest part of Livies History: the choicest Orations …
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… in his little finger, then all wee have in our bodies. He read over MelancthonsMelanchthon's common places; All Tullies works: the greatest part of Livies History: the choicest Orations …
Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History Part 2 · p. 173 · Open in the reader
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… of the heretike Stancarus, preferring the Maister of the sentence, before so many Luthers, MelancthonsMelanchthon's, Caluines, &c. we esteeme as much as the barking of a dogge against the …
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… of the heretike Stancarus, preferring the Maister of the sentence, before so many Luthers, MelancthonsMelanchthon's, Caluines, &c. we esteeme as much as the barking of a dogge against the …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 324 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of two honeſt and learned men (ye may well imagine his owne, and Philip MelancthonsMelanchthon's) if they come together in Chriſts name, then he did of all generall Councels …
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… of two honeſt and learned men (ye may well imagine his owne, and Philip MelancthonsMelanchthon's) if they come together in Chriſts name, then he did of all generall Councels …
William Whitaker · Answer to Campian the Jesuit · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… necessaria ad salutem: Bona opera officiunt saluti: Nova obedientia non est necessaria. When even MelancthonsMelanchthon's credit is blasted, for being too great a friend to good Works, though he …
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… necessaria ad salutem: Bona opera officiunt saluti: Nova obedientia non est necessaria. When even MelancthonsMelanchthon's credit is blasted, for being too great a friend to good Works, though he …
Richard Baxter · Aphorisms of Justification · p. 211 · Open in the reader
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Hereupon hee asked MelancthonsMelanchthon's advice, who much encouraged him to accept of the place, saying, Quantum solatium est …
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Hereupon hee asked MelancthonsMelanchthon's advice, who much encouraged him to accept of the place, saying, Quantum solatium est …
Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Ecclesiastical History · p. 772 · Open in the reader

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