Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40154 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

socrates'ssocrates

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

Puritas changed it: 54 times in 13 works
Consistency: 96.4% (54 of 56)
Reach if approved: ~59 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
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 (54 changes in 13 works, 96.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 54)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of our notions and contemplations touching God to ſacred Revelations. Then he addes in Socrates'sSocrates name: But truely, as for me, I am no way fit for this ſo …
With rule
… of our notions and contemplations touching God to ſacred Revelations. Then he addes in Socrates'sSocrates name: But truely, as for me, I am no way fit for this ſo …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 297 · Open in the reader
Printed
… feſtival days at all, therefore not this of Eaſter. To this I anſwer, that Socrates'sSocrates words do not at all deny this to have been the practice of the …
With rule
… feſtival days at all, therefore not this of Eaſter. To this I anſwer, that Socrates'sSocrates words do not at all deny this to have been the practice of the …
Henry Hammond · An Account of Cawdrys Triplex Diatribe · p. 244 · Open in the reader
Printed
… neither Memberſhip nor Office out of its own body in another. The Eye in Socrates'sSocrates Head hath no Office, nor is it a Member in Plato's Head, nor can …
With rule
… neither Memberſhip nor Office out of its own body in another. The Eye in Socrates'sSocrates Head hath no Office, nor is it a Member in Plato's Head, nor can …
Nathanael Mather · Lawfulness of a Pastors Acting as Officer in Other Churches · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or any thing that was at hand to ſwear by: not that he approved Socrates'sSocrates fact, but by this means he would inſtruct his hearers, that although neither be …
With rule
… or any thing that was at hand to ſwear by: not that he approved Socrates'sSocrates fact, but by this means he would inſtruct his hearers, that although neither be …
Thomas Young · The Lords Day · p. 234 · Open in the reader
Printed
… underſtands juſt things. Thus again, in his Laches, fol. 188. Plato brings in Laches commending Socrates'sSocrates mode of teaching; and ſhewing, that he was the beſt Praeceptor, whoſe life did …
With rule
… underſtands juſt things. Thus again, in his Laches, fol. 188. Plato brings in Laches commending Socrates'sSocrates mode of teaching; and ſhewing, that he was the beſt Praeceptor, whoſe life did …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles · p. 385 · Open in the reader
Printed
One Paul to me is more then a thouſand Socrates'sSocrates and Seneca's.
With rule
One Paul to me is more then a thouſand Socrates'sSocrates and Seneca's.
Anthony Tuckney · None But Christ · p. 117 · Open in the reader
Printed
… word foreign. Yea, Euſebius ſubſcribed to that alſo, and to the whole, who yet (notwithſtanding Socrates'sSocrates charitable excuſe) is by his own Epiſtle from that Council to his People, plainly …
With rule
… word foreign. Yea, Euſebius ſubſcribed to that alſo, and to the whole, who yet (notwithſtanding Socrates'sSocrates charitable excuſe) is by his own Epiſtle from that Council to his People, plainly …
Richard Baxter · The Nonconformists Plea for Peace · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
3. Antiſthenes another of Socrates'sSocrates Scholars, founded the Cynick Sect. His chief Poſition was, that Virtue was the chiefeſt …
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3. Antiſthenes another of Socrates'sSocrates Scholars, founded the Cynick Sect. His chief Poſition was, that Virtue was the chiefeſt …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 225 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 A41659

Printed
… their own knowledge, & to reduce them to the Knowledge of themſelves. The Forme of Socrates'sSocrates Philoſophie was partly Rhetorical by Ironie, partly Dialectical, by Introduction, and Interrogation, according to …
With rule
… their own knowledge, & to reduce them to the Knowledge of themſelves. The Forme of Socrates'sSocrates Philoſophie was partly Rhetorical by Ironie, partly Dialectical, by Introduction, and Interrogation, according to …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 211 · Open in the reader
Printed
… excelled his Condiſciples: yet counting his own capacitie, & endeavours, with the emprov…ment of Socrates'sSocrates Inſtructions inſufficient for the perfecting of Philoſophie, he travelled far, and near, whereever the …
With rule
… excelled his Condiſciples: yet counting his own capacitie, & endeavours, with the emprov…ment of Socrates'sSocrates Inſtructions inſufficient for the perfecting of Philoſophie, he travelled far, and near, whereever the …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 2 · p. 236 · Open in the reader