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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40106 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wickliffswycliffe's

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

Puritas changed it
56 times in 32 works
Consistency
100% (56 of 56)
Reach if approved
~59 places (estimated)
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Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
56 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (56 changes in 32 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 56)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Firſt, do not you affirm p. 45. Vind. that Walden ſheweth from WickliffsWycliffe's works that he was for Infants Baptiſm; whereas he abundantly ſaith the quite contrary …
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    Firſt, do not you affirm p. 45. Vind. that Walden ſheweth from WickliffsWycliffe's works that he was for Infants Baptiſm; whereas he abundantly ſaith the quite contrary …

    Henry Danvers · Rejoinder to Mr Wills on Infant Baptism · p. 72 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … thus render it; In (not at) the name, And all English Translations too; (as WickliffsWycliffe's, Purvi…s, Tyndalls, Coverdalls, Mathewes, The Bishops Bible, sett forth in the 2. Yeare of …
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    … thus render it; In (not at) the name, And all English Translations too; (as WickliffsWycliffe's, Purvi…s, Tyndalls, Coverdalls, Mathewes, The Bishops Bible, sett forth in the 2. Yeare of …

    William Prynne · Queries Propounded to the Bowers · p. 2 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … And the Engliſh Nonconformiſts too? 3. But in very deed, Mr. D.'s falſhood and WickliffsWycliffe's opinion for Infant-baptiſm, may very probably be gathered from that (not fifteenth as …
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    … And the Engliſh Nonconformiſts too? 3. But in very deed, Mr. D.'s falſhood and WickliffsWycliffe's opinion for Infant-baptiſm, may very probably be gathered from that (not fifteenth as …

    Richard Baxter · More Proofs of Infants Church Membership and Right to Baptism · p. 369 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Wickliff, the thing charged upon Mr. Danvers, was, That he made Walden ſay, that WickliffsWycliffe's Doctrine was very agreeable to the Doctrine of former Hereticks, as Pelagius, &c. App …
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    … Wickliff, the thing charged upon Mr. Danvers, was, That he made Walden ſay, that WickliffsWycliffe's Doctrine was very agreeable to the Doctrine of former Hereticks, as Pelagius, &c. App …

    Thomas De Laune · Truth Defended · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Inquiſitors appointed to ſearch out for Hereticks, with all WickliffsWycliffe's Books 123
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    Inquiſitors appointed to ſearch out for Hereticks, with all WickliffsWycliffe's Books 123

    William Gearing · The History of the Church of Great Britain · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … half the Chancel scattered abroad. In Bohemia, John Huss standing up in defence of WickliffsWycliffe's Doctrine, no small Commotions were occasioned thereby. But that which most amazed the World …
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    … half the Chancel scattered abroad. In Bohemia, John Huss standing up in defence of WickliffsWycliffe's Doctrine, no small Commotions were occasioned thereby. But that which most amazed the World …

    Increase Mather · Concerning Comets · p. 85 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … this was certainly so, because Mr. Danvers is so free as to give us WickliffsWycliffe's own words, which he subjoyns to his translation. But it thereby appears he hath …
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    … this was certainly so, because Mr. Danvers is so free as to give us WickliffsWycliffe's own words, which he subjoyns to his translation. But it thereby appears he hath …

    Obadiah Wills · Vindication of a Late Treatise on Infant Baptism · p. 108 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … meate. And in Queen Maryes dayes, they ſpared neither the Living nor the Dead. WickliffsWycliffe's bones muſt be digged up forty one yeares after his Death and condemned to …
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    … meate. And in Queen Maryes dayes, they ſpared neither the Living nor the Dead. WickliffsWycliffe's bones muſt be digged up forty one yeares after his Death and condemned to …

    Nehemiah Rogers · The Fast Friend · p. 277 · 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.