Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40161 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

evinc'devinced

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

Puritas changed it: 53 times in 34 works
Consistency: 96.3% (53 of 55)
Reach if approved: ~58 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: evinced
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 55 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (53 changes in 34 works, 96.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 53)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Name of a Delator or Informer is become odious; but (as might be eaſily evinc'devinced, if it had not been already done) this infamous Title no ways belongs to …
With rule
… Name of a Delator or Informer is become odious; but (as might be eaſily evinc'devinced, if it had not been already done) this infamous Title no ways belongs to …
John Spademan · Sermon 14 November 1698 · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
And thus I have, I Truſt, evinc'devinced the Settlement of the Epoch, or Beginning of theſe Fourty Two Months, both by …
With rule
And thus I have, I Truſt, evinc'devinced the Settlement of the Epoch, or Beginning of theſe Fourty Two Months, both by …
Thomas Beverley · The Voice from Heaven · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Diocesan Church, I need not insist much on this, the great thing to be evinc'devinced is, That a parochial Assembly as in pursuance of Law now formed, is not …
With rule
… Diocesan Church, I need not insist much on this, the great thing to be evinc'devinced is, That a parochial Assembly as in pursuance of Law now formed, is not …
Stephen Lobb · The True Dissenter · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Men, and ordain'd for Men in things pertaining to God. And such discriminations are evinc'devinced by all the expressions of a Church in Scripture. 'Tis call'd the body of …
With rule
… Men, and ordain'd for Men in things pertaining to God. And such discriminations are evinc'devinced by all the expressions of a Church in Scripture. 'Tis call'd the body of …
Richard Allestree · Forty Sermons · p. 215 · Open in the reader
Printed
2. The Necessity of it evinc'devinced from the
With rule
2. The Necessity of it evinc'devinced from the
Edmund Calamy · The Art of Divine Meditation · Open in the reader
Printed
… was ſhewn in the former argument;) the works of unregenerate perſons are from hence evinc'devinced to be ſins. Being ſuch, as though for the ſubſtance of the work, they …
With rule
… was ſhewn in the former argument;) the works of unregenerate perſons are from hence evinc'devinced to be ſins. Being ſuch, as though for the ſubſtance of the work, they …
Thomas Horton · One Hundred Select Sermons · p. 159 · Open in the reader
Printed
But I'll not enlarge any further, having ſufficiently evinc'devinced, that the Opinions of this man, who treats the Diſſenters with ſo much ſcorn …
With rule
But I'll not enlarge any further, having ſufficiently evinc'devinced, that the Opinions of this man, who treats the Diſſenters with ſo much ſcorn …
John Humfrey · A Reply to the Defense of Dr Stillingfleet · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… may be further demonſtrated and the Evil and Sin in their neglect of it evinc'devinced, from the Conſideration of that ſharp reproof, and ſevere Judgments of God, brought againſt …
With rule
… may be further demonſtrated and the Evil and Sin in their neglect of it evinc'devinced, from the Conſideration of that ſharp reproof, and ſevere Judgments of God, brought againſt …
Hanserd Knollys · The Gospel Ministers Maintenance Vindicated · p. 62 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 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.