Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39892 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vriahsuriah'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 59 works
Consistency: 100% (77 of 77)
Reach if approved: ~81 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: uriah's
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 59 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 77)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the life of Pharao. Dauid committed adulterie often, because he tooke vnto him Bathsheba, VriahsUriah's wife, and also kept sixe wiues, and ten concubines. Gods will is, that men …
With rule
… the life of Pharao. Dauid committed adulterie often, because he tooke vnto him Bathsheba, VriahsUriah's wife, and also kept sixe wiues, and ten concubines. Gods will is, that men …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 661 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wiues, as they did before the flood: which was Dauids great offence in taking VriahsUriah's wife. Pellic. in Deut. 17. If this were the meaning, then Salomon in the great …
With rule
… wiues, as they did before the flood: which was Dauids great offence in taking VriahsUriah's wife. Pellic. in Deut. 17. If this were the meaning, then Salomon in the great …
Andrew Willet · Harmony Upon 1 Samuel · p. 284 · Open in the reader
Printed
… NATHAN, vvho shoulde be father after the flesh to the ſonne of God. For VriahsUriah's vvife and lyfe: Satan ſtirred griefe in Thamar deflovvred, Amnon killed after tvvo yeres …
With rule
… NATHAN, vvho shoulde be father after the flesh to the ſonne of God. For VriahsUriah's vvife and lyfe: Satan ſtirred griefe in Thamar deflovvred, Amnon killed after tvvo yeres …
Hugh Broughton · A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… a man of blood, at that time Dauid had not embrued his hands in VriahsUriah's blood; nor ſhed any blood, but lawfully in iuſt warres; yet euen that made …
With rule
… a man of blood, at that time Dauid had not embrued his hands in VriahsUriah's blood; nor ſhed any blood, but lawfully in iuſt warres; yet euen that made …
John Donne · Five Sermons 2 · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not red in his brothers bloud, out of Gods hands; nor David red with VriahsUriah's bloud; nor Achitophel with his own; nor Iudas with Christs, or his owne. That …
With rule
… not red in his brothers bloud, out of Gods hands; nor David red with VriahsUriah's bloud; nor Achitophel with his own; nor Iudas with Christs, or his owne. That …
John Donne · Fifty Sermons · p. 248 · Open in the reader
Printed
… due proportion between the sin, and the punishment: his sin was to cut off VriahsUriah's house out of Israel, God sendeth the sword against his house all his dayes …
With rule
… due proportion between the sin, and the punishment: his sin was to cut off VriahsUriah's house out of Israel, God sendeth the sword against his house all his dayes …
Samuel Rutherford · The Trial and Triumph of Faith · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… may think conceiued, that it should neuer haue been reuealed, concerning the defiling of VriahsUriah's wife and the slaughter of her husband his faithful subiect: for assuredly hee dealt …
With rule
… may think conceiued, that it should neuer haue been reuealed, concerning the defiling of VriahsUriah's wife and the slaughter of her husband his faithful subiect: for assuredly hee dealt …
Oliver Pigg · Sermons Upon Psalm 101 · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wickedneſſe end? Dauid will now procure the ſin of another, to hide his owne; VriahsUriah's drunkenneſſe is more Dauids offence, then his. It is weakly yeelded to of the …
With rule
… wickedneſſe end? Dauid will now procure the ſin of another, to hide his owne; VriahsUriah's drunkenneſſe is more Dauids offence, then his. It is weakly yeelded to of the …
Joseph Hall · History of the Old Testament Volume 5 · p. 249 · 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.