Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39894 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bewail'dbewailed

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

Puritas changed it: 83 times in 68 works
Consistency: 92.2% (83 of 90)
Reach if approved: ~95 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bewailed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 90 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (83 changes in 68 works, 92.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 83)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… put to death, howſoever the people lamented it, were ſorry for him, and ſorely bewail'dbewailed his death; yet were they all puniſhed: and why ſo? becauſe when they were …
With rule
… put to death, howſoever the people lamented it, were ſorry for him, and ſorely bewail'dbewailed his death; yet were they all puniſhed: and why ſo? becauſe when they were …
John Canne · The golden Rule · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
We might have now for them, not Thee bewail'dbewailed:
With rule
We might have now for them, not Thee bewail'dbewailed:
Samuel Slater · A Rhetorical Rapture · Open in the reader
Printed
… Friends: nor was it without Reason, that they should account those fit to be bewail'dbewailed, who are launching forth into the Tempestuous Sea of this World, and attend them …
With rule
… Friends: nor was it without Reason, that they should account those fit to be bewail'dbewailed, who are launching forth into the Tempestuous Sea of this World, and attend them …
Richard Allestree · The Whole Duty of Mourning and Preparing Ourselves for Death · p. 150 · Open in the reader
Printed
… affrighted Malichus that he betook himſelf to his old Trade of diſſembling, and openly bewail'dbewailed with Tears the death of Antipater as his great Friend. So that for that …
With rule
… affrighted Malichus that he betook himſelf to his old Trade of diſſembling, and openly bewail'dbewailed with Tears the death of Antipater as his great Friend. So that for that …
Samuel Cradock · The History of the Old Testament Methodized · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… man, I need not, hee was known well enough in England, his death is bewail'dbewailed by thouſands, and his name precious with many godly. I was once drawn away …
With rule
… man, I need not, hee was known well enough in England, his death is bewail'dbewailed by thouſands, and his name precious with many godly. I was once drawn away …
Ralph Farmer · The Quakers Throne of Truth Satans Seat of Lies · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
… such was her humble and self-condemning Temper, that she to her very last bewail'dbewailed her not Improvement of her last Days Mercies, as she thought she ought. Her …
With rule
… such was her humble and self-condemning Temper, that she to her very last bewail'dbewailed her not Improvement of her last Days Mercies, as she thought she ought. Her …
Thomas Manton · Advice to Mourners Under the Loss of Dear Relations · p. xvi · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet there may be ſome in the vallies; 'Tis indeed a thing to be bewail'dbewailed, that there ſhould be ſuch multitudes of men and women, in the world, and …
With rule
… yet there may be ſome in the vallies; 'Tis indeed a thing to be bewail'dbewailed, that there ſhould be ſuch multitudes of men and women, in the world, and …
Joseph Symonds · Saints Like Christ · p. 109 · Open in the reader
Printed
… trivial Thoughts of this Original Corruption, that is thus abominable. It's oft confess'd, seldom bewail'dbewailed, as it is by St. Paul, Rom. 7. 14, 15, 16, 17, 24, &c.
With rule
… trivial Thoughts of this Original Corruption, that is thus abominable. It's oft confess'd, seldom bewail'dbewailed, as it is by St. Paul, Rom. 7. 14, 15, 16, 17, 24, &c.
John Woodhouse · A Catalogue of Sins · p. 3 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons A33330

Printed
He liv'd Belov'd, and Di'd Bewail'dBewailed, and such
With rule
He liv'd Belov'd, and Di'd Bewail'dBewailed, and such
Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons · p. 185 · Open in the reader