Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40189 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fool'dfooled

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

Puritas changed it: 52 times in 41 works
Consistency: 94.5% (52 of 55)
Reach if approved: ~58 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: fooled
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 (52 changes in 41 works, 94.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 52)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… heed of diſguiſes and Court-masks, after ſo many blows and bullets, be not fool'dfooled with faire words, and falſe fires. I pray your Majeſty Beleeve your ſelfe a …
With rule
… heed of diſguiſes and Court-masks, after ſo many blows and bullets, be not fool'dfooled with faire words, and falſe fires. I pray your Majeſty Beleeve your ſelfe a …
Nathaniel Ward · Answer to a Declaration of the Commissioners to the General Assembly · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
Old Ariſtippus I have fool'dfooled and made
With rule
Old Ariſtippus I have fool'dfooled and made
William Gouge · The Saints Sacrifice · Open in the reader
Printed
Thus Life is fool'dfooled away, till Death seem near,
With rule
Thus Life is fool'dfooled away, till Death seem near,
Richard Baxter · Additions to the Poetical Fragments of Baxter · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
Be fool'dfooled by theſe no more.
With rule
Be fool'dfooled by theſe no more.
John Bryan · Harvest-Home · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he ſuffers himſelf to be overreach'd and thinks he is generous, when he is fool'dfooled by the meaneſt and unworthieſt of the People, impudent Pedlars, or flattering Hoſts. But …
With rule
… he ſuffers himſelf to be overreach'd and thinks he is generous, when he is fool'dfooled by the meaneſt and unworthieſt of the People, impudent Pedlars, or flattering Hoſts. But …
John Hartcliffe · Treatise of Moral and Intellectual Virtues · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Being, and of all good things; but became vain in their imaginations; foreign, they were fool'dfooled with their own Reaſonings. This he ſpeaks of the Philoſophers, who in thoſe great …
With rule
… Being, and of all good things; but became vain in their imaginations; foreign, they were fool'dfooled with their own Reaſonings. This he ſpeaks of the Philoſophers, who in thoſe great …
John Tillotson · Discourses of the Great Duties of Natural Religion · p. 296 · Open in the reader
Printed
And theſe together, have ſo fool'dfooled and cheated
With rule
And theſe together, have ſo fool'dfooled and cheated
George Wither · Echos from the Sixth Trumpet · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… no greater woe upon earth, to a meer Polititian, then to be baffel'd and fool'dfooled in his deſignes; when God deals thus with them, he pierceth them in the …
With rule
… no greater woe upon earth, to a meer Polititian, then to be baffel'd and fool'dfooled in his deſignes; when God deals thus with them, he pierceth them in the …
Matthew Newcomen · The All-Seeing Unseen Eye of God · p. 30 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.