Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40081 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pamper'dpampered

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

Puritas changed it: 59 times in 49 works
Consistency: 98.3% (59 of 60)
Reach if approved: ~63 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pampered
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 60 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (59 changes in 49 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 59)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… that hee dies daily. And sometimes, when the Church enioyed her ease, and was pamper'dpampered with securitie and rest, to excite men to a publicke confession of their Faith …
With rule
… that hee dies daily. And sometimes, when the Church enioyed her ease, and was pamper'dpampered with securitie and rest, to excite men to a publicke confession of their Faith …
John Donne · Pseudo-Martyr · p. 195 · Open in the reader
Printed
They know their pamper'dpampered Flesh will soon be dust.
With rule
They know their pamper'dpampered Flesh will soon be dust.
Richard Baxter · Additions to the Poetical Fragments of Baxter · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
They are but fed, or pamper'dpampered for the wormes:
With rule
They are but fed, or pamper'dpampered for the wormes:
Edward Calver · Passion and Discretion in Youth and Age · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… meet help to the Soul; if it be ſtrong and healthy, then like a pamper'dpampered Beaſt, it grows crank and wanton, ready to throw its rider, which made Saint …
With rule
… meet help to the Soul; if it be ſtrong and healthy, then like a pamper'dpampered Beaſt, it grows crank and wanton, ready to throw its rider, which made Saint …
William Gurnall · The Christians Labor and Reward · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the Scriptures, will be ten times more puzzl'd with the knotty Africanisms, the pamper'dpampered metafors; the intricat, and involv'd sentences of the Fathers; besides the fantastick, and declamatory …
With rule
… of the Scriptures, will be ten times more puzzl'd with the knotty Africanisms, the pamper'dpampered metafors; the intricat, and involv'd sentences of the Fathers; besides the fantastick, and declamatory …
John Milton · Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Companions of Soul and Body. Oh to think that this Body, that is here pamper'dpampered and made ſo much of, ſhould become vile and loathſome in the Grave, laid …
With rule
… Companions of Soul and Body. Oh to think that this Body, that is here pamper'dpampered and made ſo much of, ſhould become vile and loathſome in the Grave, laid …
Nathanael Ranew · Concerning Death and Heaven · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thoſe Nations get not the upper hand; to that purpoſe, that they be not pamper'dpampered and fed too high, till they grow petulant and unruly, that this jumentum hominis …
With rule
… thoſe Nations get not the upper hand; to that purpoſe, that they be not pamper'dpampered and fed too high, till they grow petulant and unruly, that this jumentum hominis …
Henry Hammond · Works Volume 4 · p. 512 · Open in the reader
Printed
Of that which lewdly-pamper'dpampered Luxury
With rule
Of that which lewdly-pamper'dpampered Luxury
John Milton · Poems 2 · p. 109 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

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