Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40082 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

repli'dreplied

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

Puritas changed it: 59 times in 22 works
Consistency: 98.3% (59 of 60)
Reach if approved: ~63 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: replied
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 22 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 59)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
What's that to Me, thus Titius repli'dreplied,
With rule
What's that to Me, thus Titius repli'dreplied,
John Owen · Latin Epigrams Englished · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to the Law, when it was ſaid to him, Revileſt thou Gods high Prieſt; repli'dreplied, I wiſt not that he was the high Prieſt, for it is written, Thou …
With rule
… to the Law, when it was ſaid to him, Revileſt thou Gods high Prieſt; repli'dreplied, I wiſt not that he was the high Prieſt, for it is written, Thou …
Samuel Rolle · Loyalty and Peace · p. 172 · Open in the reader
Printed
Phoebus repli'dreplied, and touch'd my trembling ears;
With rule
Phoebus repli'dreplied, and touch'd my trembling ears;
John Milton · Poems 2 · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
… so honest, and the consequence so strange, that I shall not pass it. He repli'dreplied, sith your Reverence acknowledgeth that I must confess my self of it, you also …
With rule
… so honest, and the consequence so strange, that I shall not pass it. He repli'dreplied, sith your Reverence acknowledgeth that I must confess my self of it, you also …
Richard Allestree · Forty Sermons · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all your talk of Factions and Cabals ſignifies nothing. That does not follow neither (repli'dreplied Mr. Claude) for notwithſtanding there appear not any thing to weaken a mans Preſumptions …
With rule
… all your talk of Factions and Cabals ſignifies nothing. That does not follow neither (repli'dreplied Mr. Claude) for notwithſtanding there appear not any thing to weaken a mans Preſumptions …
Jean Claude · Answer to De Meauxs Book · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
To which Speech of the said Speaker, the Lord Keeper, without any long pausing, repli'dreplied again in manner and form following.
With rule
To which Speech of the said Speaker, the Lord Keeper, without any long pausing, repli'dreplied again in manner and form following.
Simonds D Ewes · The Journals of Parliaments · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Enemy's Camp. When Antipater ſent to them, demanding fifty Children for Hoſtages, they repli'dreplied, They had rather give him twice as many men at their ripeſt years. How …
With rule
… the Enemy's Camp. When Antipater ſent to them, demanding fifty Children for Hoſtages, they repli'dreplied, They had rather give him twice as many men at their ripeſt years. How …
Thomas Jacombe · Holy Dedication Both Personal and Domestic · p. 186 · Open in the reader
Printed
To whom thus Adam fervently repli'dreplied.
With rule
To whom thus Adam fervently repli'dreplied.
John Milton · Paradise Lost · 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.