Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40091 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

absolv'dabsolved

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

Puritas changed it: 60 times in 44 works
Consistency: 95.2% (60 of 63)
Reach if approved: ~66 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: absolved
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 63 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (60 changes in 44 works, 95.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 60)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… a year complained of to the Pope, that so he may declare his Subjects absolv'dabsolved from their Allegiance, & expose his Lands to be seiz'd by Catholicks; who shall exterminate …
With rule
… a year complained of to the Pope, that so he may declare his Subjects absolv'dabsolved from their Allegiance, & expose his Lands to be seiz'd by Catholicks; who shall exterminate …
Richard Allestree · Eighteen Sermons · p. 176 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in Infidelity or Unbelief, or ſome great Enormity of Practice; and it may be abſolv'dabsolved and finiſhed in ſome Notorious Act of Sin, or may run through the whole …
With rule
… in Infidelity or Unbelief, or ſome great Enormity of Practice; and it may be abſolv'dabsolved and finiſhed in ſome Notorious Act of Sin, or may run through the whole …
Thomas Beverley · The Principle of Protestant Truth and Peace · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
But well fare our Author for all that; who finally hath absolv'dabsolved the Spaniard from this breach, and laid the same upon King Iames, despairing of …
With rule
But well fare our Author for all that; who finally hath absolv'dabsolved the Spaniard from this breach, and laid the same upon King Iames, despairing of …
Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · p. 103 · Open in the reader
Printed
… my ſelfe: But for the ſecond thing ſignified by abſolution, viz. the pronouncing him abſolv'dabsolved in heaven, all that I am obliged to, by duty or in prudence, is …
With rule
… my ſelfe: But for the ſecond thing ſignified by abſolution, viz. the pronouncing him abſolv'dabsolved in heaven, all that I am obliged to, by duty or in prudence, is …
Henry Hammond · Of Sins of Weakness · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of tyrannicall madnes against GOD, for comming into holy ground. At last upon conditions absolv'dabsolved, and after great humiliation approaching to the Altar to offer (as those thrise pure …
With rule
… of tyrannicall madnes against GOD, for comming into holy ground. At last upon conditions absolv'dabsolved, and after great humiliation approaching to the Altar to offer (as those thrise pure …
John Milton · Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline · p. 80 · Open in the reader
Printed
… some other powers unlawfull; then he would dislove most of their Governments, and have absolv'dabsolved us from Allegiance to King Charles long before this Parliament began; by which sort …
With rule
… some other powers unlawfull; then he would dislove most of their Governments, and have absolv'dabsolved us from Allegiance to King Charles long before this Parliament began; by which sort …
Francis Rous · The Bounds and Bonds of Public Obedience · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
May then b' abſolv'dabsolved by thee.
With rule
May then b' abſolv'dabsolved by thee.
Daniel Cudmore · A Prayer-Song · p. 118 · Open in the reader
Printed
… so as that he might judge the lesser part the sounder, and be thereupon absolv'dabsolved from standing to the judgement of the major part; he could then keep himself …
With rule
… so as that he might judge the lesser part the sounder, and be thereupon absolv'dabsolved from standing to the judgement of the major part; he could then keep himself …
Charles Hotham · Corporations Vindicated · p. 40 · 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.

A Pleasant Purge for a Roman Catholic A56191

Printed
By Confeſſe and Abſolv'dAbsolved, ſeemes now control'd.
With rule
By Confeſſe and Abſolv'dAbsolved, ſeemes now control'd.
William Prynne · A Pleasant Purge for a Roman Catholic · p. 70 · Open in the reader