Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40039 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pluck'tplucked

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

Puritas changed it: 65 times in 55 works
Consistency: 95.5% (65 of 68)
Reach if approved: ~71 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: plucked
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 68 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: pluckit (3)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (65 changes in 55 works, 95.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 65)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and had married ſtrange wives, and curſed them, and ſmote certain of them, and pluck'tplucked off their haire , he being a Magiſtrate, and their Governour: the patience of the …
With rule
… and had married ſtrange wives, and curſed them, and ſmote certain of them, and pluck'tplucked off their haire , he being a Magiſtrate, and their Governour: the patience of the …
Samuel Crook · Divine Characters in Two Parts · p. 437 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thoſe Favours, in paſſing their ill-fram'd Bills, which he verily thought would be pluck'tplucked up by the Roots, when the Day of the Lord ſhould come to redeem …
With rule
… thoſe Favours, in paſſing their ill-fram'd Bills, which he verily thought would be pluck'tplucked up by the Roots, when the Day of the Lord ſhould come to redeem …
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 191 · Open in the reader
Printed
… can ſcarce ſpeak a ſentence without their Dammee's and Sinkmee's? Whoſe tongues, were they pluck'tplucked out by the Roots, it was a puniſhment no way ſuited to the heinouſneſſe …
With rule
… can ſcarce ſpeak a ſentence without their Dammee's and Sinkmee's? Whoſe tongues, were they pluck'tplucked out by the Roots, it was a puniſhment no way ſuited to the heinouſneſſe …
Matthew Mead · Solomons Prescription for the Removal of Pestilence · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… from Heaven to conſume thee; but …hat thou might'ſt be as a fire-brand pluck'tplucked out …f the burning. O that, though we are ſtrug…ng together here, in …
With rule
… from Heaven to conſume thee; but …hat thou might'ſt be as a fire-brand pluck'tplucked out …f the burning. O that, though we are ſtrug…ng together here, in …
Samuel Stodden · The Voice of the Rod · p. 257 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is coming, and now is, that all coverings ſhall be removed and the vails pluck'tplucked from off all faces, and lamentation and woe will be to all them who …
With rule
… is coming, and now is, that all coverings ſhall be removed and the vails pluck'tplucked from off all faces, and lamentation and woe will be to all them who …
William Thomas · Railing Rebuked · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… only in an allegory, and in order to my wearing a Vizard, which he pluck'tplucked off. 3. That since he did only so, let me but acknowledge that he found …
With rule
… only in an allegory, and in order to my wearing a Vizard, which he pluck'tplucked off. 3. That since he did only so, let me but acknowledge that he found …
Henry Hammond · Brief Account of One Suggestion of the Romanist · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the Hedge, it would ſoon fall to the ground, for when theſe are pluck'tplucked up what would uphold the Hedge? They do nothing honeſtly towards the worlds continuance …
With rule
… in the Hedge, it would ſoon fall to the ground, for when theſe are pluck'tplucked up what would uphold the Hedge? They do nothing honeſtly towards the worlds continuance …
John Cotton · A Meet Help · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
And shall we pluck'tplucked from dungeons, filth, and mire
With rule
And shall we pluck'tplucked from dungeons, filth, and mire
George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · 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.