Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40175 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

appli'dapplied

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

Puritas changed it: 50 times in 37 works
Consistency: 100% (50 of 50)
Reach if approved: ~53 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: applied
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 50 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (50 changes in 37 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 50)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… to the text, that our Saviour on ſet purpoſe choſe this word Fornication, improperly appli'dapplied to the lapſe of adultery, that we might not think our ſelvs bound from …
With rule
… to the text, that our Saviour on ſet purpoſe choſe this word Fornication, improperly appli'dapplied to the lapſe of adultery, that we might not think our ſelvs bound from …
John Milton · Exposition Upon Marriage or Nullities of Marriage · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
And ſo much fewell is to them appli'dapplied;
With rule
And ſo much fewell is to them appli'dapplied;
George Wither · A Voice Tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
These being well appli'dapplied in their due season
With rule
These being well appli'dapplied in their due season
George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader
Printed
… great judgment. This is indeed a Catholicon against all: but we find it particularly appli'dapplied by St. Paul to this of judging and despising our Brethren. Why dost thou …
With rule
… great judgment. This is indeed a Catholicon against all: but we find it particularly appli'dapplied by St. Paul to this of judging and despising our Brethren. Why dost thou …
Richard Allestree · The Government of the Tongue · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… once dead, she would never bite. But never prest so home, never so punctually appli'dapplied to the case of Kings, as here I finde it by our Author; of …
With rule
… once dead, she would never bite. But never prest so home, never so punctually appli'dapplied to the case of Kings, as here I finde it by our Author; of …
Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Christ, in the Ministry of the Gospel. This was the Work to which he appli'dapplied himself; and he undertook it, I believe, with as right Thoughts of it, and …
With rule
… Christ, in the Ministry of the Gospel. This was the Work to which he appli'dapplied himself; and he undertook it, I believe, with as right Thoughts of it, and …
Cotton Mather · The Life and Death of John Eliot · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
Put forth, and to a narrow vent appli'dapplied
With rule
Put forth, and to a narrow vent appli'dapplied
John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader
Printed
… of that unhappy Prince. And when he turn'd off from tantalizing of Spain, he appli'dapplied to a Daughter of France: Such a Biggot was ſhe to the Romiſh Religion …
With rule
… of that unhappy Prince. And when he turn'd off from tantalizing of Spain, he appli'dapplied to a Daughter of France: Such a Biggot was ſhe to the Romiſh Religion …
John Woodhouse · Sermon 31 May 1697 · p. 35 · 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.