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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40013 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ioshuasjoshua's

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

Puritas changed it
65 times in 30 works
Consistency
100% (65 of 65)
Reach if approved
~68 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: joshua's
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
65 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (65 changes in 30 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 65)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … to fit euery Tribes turne. So that the casting of the Lots should be IoshuasJoshua's work onely; but the fitting of more and fewer with larger or scanter possessions …
    With rule
    … to fit euery Tribes turne. So that the casting of the Lots should be IoshuasJoshua's work onely; but the fitting of more and fewer with larger or scanter possessions …

    Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … so long as Moses held up his hand, God fought for Israel. There was IoshuasJoshua's sword, and Moses his hand or prayer, and upon those Gods blessing, Exod. 17.12, 13. And …
    With rule
    … so long as Moses held up his hand, God fought for Israel. There was IoshuasJoshua's sword, and Moses his hand or prayer, and upon those Gods blessing, Exod. 17.12, 13. And …

    Edward Reynolds · Explication of Psalm 110 · p. 485 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … if the Sunne ſtood ſtill and moved not, what miracle was it then, in IoſhuasJoshua's dayes to make the Sunne to ſtand? Therefore to ſay, that the Sunne mooveth …
    With rule
    … if the Sunne ſtood ſtill and moved not, what miracle was it then, in IoſhuasJoshua's dayes to make the Sunne to ſtand? Therefore to ſay, that the Sunne mooveth …

    John Weemes · Observations Natural and Moral · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … ſo then aboliſhed; and ſo there was no Sabbath in Gods church neuer after IoſhuasJoshua's dayes: yea, if tymes formerly appointed in the Law vvere now changed by ſtanding …
    With rule
    … ſo then aboliſhed; and ſo there was no Sabbath in Gods church neuer after IoſhuasJoshua's dayes: yea, if tymes formerly appointed in the Law vvere now changed by ſtanding …

    Theophilus Brabourne · A Discourse Upon the Sabbath Day · p. 157 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … speciall commandment from God: and that it is not every vvay imitable. And of IoshuasJoshua's, beside that it was also the expresse commandement of God; and that there is …
    With rule
    … speciall commandment from God: and that it is not every vvay imitable. And of IoshuasJoshua's, beside that it was also the expresse commandement of God; and that there is …

    William Ames · Reply to Mortons Defense of Ceremonies · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … and not bound by the oath of the rash swearing Judges and Elders in IoshuasJoshua's time, doth treacherously seduce his own conscience, and falleth upon the off-cutting of …
    With rule
    … and not bound by the oath of the rash swearing Judges and Elders in IoshuasJoshua's time, doth treacherously seduce his own conscience, and falleth upon the off-cutting of …

    David Dickson · Sacred Therapy · p. 432 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … thy meaſures of grace, and how thy devotion, or zeal (which ſhould not like IoſhuasJoshua's ſun ſtand ſtill, but like Davids ſun rather rejoyce as a Gyant to run …
    With rule
    … thy meaſures of grace, and how thy devotion, or zeal (which ſhould not like IoſhuasJoshua's ſun ſtand ſtill, but like Davids ſun rather rejoyce as a Gyant to run …

    William Sclater · A Divine Cordial for a Devout Soul · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … is to the workman, not the inſtrument: Neither did God ſlay them onely with IoſhuasJoshua's ſword, but with his own haile-ſtones; that now the Amorites may ſee both …
    With rule
    … is to the workman, not the inſtrument: Neither did God ſlay them onely with IoſhuasJoshua's ſword, but with his own haile-ſtones; that now the Amorites may ſee both …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 896 · 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.