Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39937 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

virgilsvirgil's

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

Puritas changed it: 73 times in 54 works
Consistency: 100% (73 of 73)
Reach if approved: ~77 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: virgils
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 73 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (73 changes in 54 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 73)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
In Latine, hoc facite, which the Papists expound sacrifice, this according to VirgilsVirgil's verse,
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In Latine, hoc facite, which the Papists expound sacrifice, this according to VirgilsVirgil's verse,
Thomas Fuller · Josephs Party-Colored Coat · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… perfunctory and tottering content. And therefore Seneca is bold to find an impropriety in VirgilsVirgil's Epithite, Mala Gaudia, Ioyes which issue from a polluted fountaine; as not having in …
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… perfunctory and tottering content. And therefore Seneca is bold to find an impropriety in VirgilsVirgil's Epithite, Mala Gaudia, Ioyes which issue from a polluted fountaine; as not having in …
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 198 · Open in the reader
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… if it were held a thing vnlawfull among the very Gentiles? See the Poet VirgilsVirgil's iudgement of it. When Aeneas came downe to hell, as the Poet there doth …
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… if it were held a thing vnlawfull among the very Gentiles? See the Poet VirgilsVirgil's iudgement of it. When Aeneas came downe to hell, as the Poet there doth …
Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 129 · Open in the reader
Printed
About the beginning of Monkery, ſee Polidore VirgilsVirgil's confeſſ. lib. 7. cap 1. pag. 414.415.416. And that [Monachi primo omnium introduxerunt in Eccleſiant Dei vota …
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About the beginning of Monkery, ſee Polidore VirgilsVirgil's confeſſ. lib. 7. cap 1. pag. 414.415.416. And that [Monachi primo omnium introduxerunt in Eccleſiant Dei vota …
Richard Baxter · The Safe Religion · p. 112 · Open in the reader
Printed
… place seems to be the Elisian Fields, taken out of the sixth book of VirgilsVirgil's Aeneiods.
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… place seems to be the Elisian Fields, taken out of the sixth book of VirgilsVirgil's Aeneiods.
David Dickson · Truths Victory Over Error · p. 332 · Open in the reader
Printed
… intended. And indeed even amongſt Pagan writers we find the like phraſe, as in VirgilsVirgil's Animamque ſepulchro Condimus. But however, that it cannot be meant of Chriſts ſoul being …
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… intended. And indeed even amongſt Pagan writers we find the like phraſe, as in VirgilsVirgil's Animamque ſepulchro Condimus. But however, that it cannot be meant of Chriſts ſoul being …
Arthur Jackson · Annotations Upon the Books of Poetry · p. 351 · Open in the reader
Printed
What VirgilsVirgil's was, is now Physicians act.
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What VirgilsVirgil's was, is now Physicians act.
John Owen · Latin Epigrams Englished · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… endangering them, with which ye ſhall have many taken off to no ſmall damage: VirgilsVirgil's care for this is to open a vein between the Claws of the Feet …
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… endangering them, with which ye ſhall have many taken off to no ſmall damage: VirgilsVirgil's care for this is to open a vein between the Claws of the Feet …
James Wood · Shepherdy Spiritualized · p. 132 · 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.