Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40084 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mephiboshethsmephibosheth's

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

Puritas changed it: 58 times in 49 works
Consistency: 100% (58 of 58)
Reach if approved: ~61 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: mephibosheth's
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 58 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (58 changes in 49 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 58)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… muſt to his members. Jonathan is gone, but he hath left many poor lame MephiboſhethsMephibosheth's behinde him. We muſt love Chriſt in his worky-day clothes. We cannot carry …
With rule
… muſt to his members. Jonathan is gone, but he hath left many poor lame MephiboſhethsMephibosheth's behinde him. We muſt love Chriſt in his worky-day clothes. We cannot carry …
William Jenkyn · Exposition of Jude · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
I ſhall, my Lord, reſume MephiboſhethsMephibosheth's anſwer to David, (after a great Rebellion, and himſelf evil reported of) ſaith he …
With rule
I ſhall, my Lord, reſume MephiboſhethsMephibosheth's anſwer to David, (after a great Rebellion, and himſelf evil reported of) ſaith he …
Archibald Argyll · Edinburgh at the Parliament-House 13 February 1661 · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bone, and flesh of his flesh. Is our Ionathan gone? Yet we have many MephiboshethsMephibosheth's; and he that loves God, for his owne sake, will love his Brother, for …
With rule
… bone, and flesh of his flesh. Is our Ionathan gone? Yet we have many MephiboshethsMephibosheth's; and he that loves God, for his owne sake, will love his Brother, for …
Richard Younge · The Drunkards Character · p. 514 · Open in the reader
Printed
… did other things that were ſinfull, the Numbring of the people, the giuing of MephiboſhethsMephibosheth's Lands to Ziba, why then ſayes the text, ſaue in the matter of Vriah …
With rule
… did other things that were ſinfull, the Numbring of the people, the giuing of MephiboſhethsMephibosheth's Lands to Ziba, why then ſayes the text, ſaue in the matter of Vriah …
Jeremiah Dyke · Two Treatises · p. 142 · Open in the reader
Printed
… up Children. There is a Table prepar'd for the King's Sons, at which his MephiboſhethsMephibosheth's eat, 2 Sam. 9.11. God hath eminently undertaken for their certain and undoubted maintenance; there is …
With rule
… up Children. There is a Table prepar'd for the King's Sons, at which his MephiboſhethsMephibosheth's eat, 2 Sam. 9.11. God hath eminently undertaken for their certain and undoubted maintenance; there is …
Timothy Cruso · Twenty-Four Sermons · p. 255 · Open in the reader
Printed
… him a preſent, in a hard time indeed,) with ſo large, a ſhare in MephiboſhethsMephibosheth's eſtate, When by the Law of God, he was to dye for his falſe …
With rule
… him a preſent, in a hard time indeed,) with ſo large, a ſhare in MephiboſhethsMephibosheth's eſtate, When by the Law of God, he was to dye for his falſe …
Herbert Palmer · Scripture and Reason Pleased for Defensive Arms · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ziba to David, 2 Sam. 16.4. q. d. I had rather have the Kings favour than MephiboſhethsMephibosheth's Lands. David really had rather have Gods love and favour than all this worlds …
With rule
… Ziba to David, 2 Sam. 16.4. q. d. I had rather have the Kings favour than MephiboſhethsMephibosheth's Lands. David really had rather have Gods love and favour than all this worlds …
John Trapp · Commentary on Ezra Nehemiah Ester Job and Psalms · p. 572 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their children in their armes, ready with haste, to let them fall forth, as MephiboshethsMephibosheth's Nurse did him, striving which should first lay downe their lives for Christs sake …
With rule
… their children in their armes, ready with haste, to let them fall forth, as MephiboshethsMephibosheth's Nurse did him, striving which should first lay downe their lives for Christs sake …
John Jackson · The True Evangelical Temper · p. 59 · 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.