Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40022 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

groan'dgroaned

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

Puritas changed it: 67 times in 53 works
Consistency: 95.7% (67 of 70)
Reach if approved: ~74 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: groaned
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 70 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (67 changes in 53 works, 95.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 67)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… whole Creation was under ſuch a load of wrath, that ever ſince it hath groan'dgroaned under it: Rom. 8.22. But there we read alſo that the creature groans under an …
With rule
… whole Creation was under ſuch a load of wrath, that ever ſince it hath groan'dgroaned under it: Rom. 8.22. But there we read alſo that the creature groans under an …
Richard Eedes · Great Salvation by Jesus Christ · p. 172 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they at all endeavour the removal of the unsupportable Burdens and Slavery the Church groan'dgroaned under? And should it not have been a great benefite to the Church, or …
With rule
… they at all endeavour the removal of the unsupportable Burdens and Slavery the Church groan'dgroaned under? And should it not have been a great benefite to the Church, or …
William Jameson · The Fundamentals of the Hierarchy Examined and Disproved · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and tread in his Steps. For this their Loftineſs and triumphing Arrogance, his Heart groan'dgroaned out the double, How long? ver. 3. Words of Lamentation. Indeed when men are deſpis'd …
With rule
… and tread in his Steps. For this their Loftineſs and triumphing Arrogance, his Heart groan'dgroaned out the double, How long? ver. 3. Words of Lamentation. Indeed when men are deſpis'd …
Thomas Sharpe · Divine Comforts · p. 164 · Open in the reader
Printed
But Heaven his Death in Thunder groan'dgroaned aloud.
With rule
But Heaven his Death in Thunder groan'dgroaned aloud.
John Tutchin · A New Martyrology · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he did not groan over the maid, nor over the young-man, but he groan'dgroaned over Lazarus, to ſhew the difficulty of raiſing a poor ſinner from the dead …
With rule
… he did not groan over the maid, nor over the young-man, but he groan'dgroaned over Lazarus, to ſhew the difficulty of raiſing a poor ſinner from the dead …
William Bridge · The Works of William Bridge Volume 3 · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… have perfected reformation even to a beautifullneſſe; you might have made Antichriſt to have groan'dgroaned like a dying man, you might have made all the reformed Churches in Chriſtendome …
With rule
… have perfected reformation even to a beautifullneſſe; you might have made Antichriſt to have groan'dgroaned like a dying man, you might have made all the reformed Churches in Chriſtendome …
William Jenkyn · A Sleeping Sickness · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… us of our ſins, as a heavy burthen, too heavy to be born; it groan'dgroaned and travailed in pain, as wanting to be delivered.
With rule
… us of our ſins, as a heavy burthen, too heavy to be born; it groan'dgroaned and travailed in pain, as wanting to be delivered.
Benjamin Colman · The Judgments of Providence in the Hand of Christ · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reconcile or abate Differences, and retrench the miſchievous Effects the World hath ſo long groan'dgroaned under by ſo many Religions of Nations, Names of Churches, and Perſons propagating their …
With rule
… reconcile or abate Differences, and retrench the miſchievous Effects the World hath ſo long groan'dgroaned under by ſo many Religions of Nations, Names of Churches, and Perſons propagating their …
Thomas Beverley · A Catholic Catechism · p. 20 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Divine Comforts A59579

Printed
… with multitudes of Fears, Troubles, Torments, Sorrows? Can a Man that hath felt this, Groan'dGroaned under, been Cruſh'd, and Crucifi'd, and Rack'd, and Rent in pieces with it, and …
With rule
… with multitudes of Fears, Troubles, Torments, Sorrows? Can a Man that hath felt this, Groan'dGroaned under, been Cruſh'd, and Crucifi'd, and Rack'd, and Rent in pieces with it, and …
Thomas Sharpe · Divine Comforts · p. 96 · Open in the reader