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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40190 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

leaven'dleavened

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

Puritas changed it
51 times in 35 works
Consistency
96.2% (51 of 53)
Reach if approved
~56 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: leavened
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
53 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (51 changes in 35 works, 96.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 51)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … way at his very entrance; for some of the Ministers of Edinburgh, who were leaven'dleavened with pride and error, fearing the presence of so holy and learned a man …
    With rule
    … way at his very entrance; for some of the Ministers of Edinburgh, who were leaven'dleavened with pride and error, fearing the presence of so holy and learned a man …

    Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Oh how hard is it to clear the heart of a good man once leaven'dleavened with Error! and much more hard to separate it from a wicked man
    With rule
    … Oh how hard is it to clear the heart of a good man once leaven'dleavened with Error! and much more hard to separate it from a wicked man

    John Flavel · Discourse of Mental Errors · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … hold faſt your uprightneſs. Be not corrupted by the ungodly practiſes of ſome, nor leaven'dleavened by the unſound opinions of others. Beloved, believe not every ſpirit, but try the …
    With rule
    … hold faſt your uprightneſs. Be not corrupted by the ungodly practiſes of ſome, nor leaven'dleavened by the unſound opinions of others. Beloved, believe not every ſpirit, but try the …

    Richard Mayo · The Life and Death of Edmund Staunton · p. v · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … and destructive to it. One of my Answerers saith, That the Iudaizing Christians were leaven'dleavened with such a corrupt Opinion, as was by no means to be born with …
    With rule
    … and destructive to it. One of my Answerers saith, That the Iudaizing Christians were leaven'dleavened with such a corrupt Opinion, as was by no means to be born with …

    Edward Stillingfleet · The Unreasonableness of Separation · p. 168 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … out of a meer ſpirit of contradiction, that they are poyſoned with Sauls ſpirit, leaven'dleavened with malice and envy, &c. Would not charity have required that you ſhould have …
    With rule
    … out of a meer ſpirit of contradiction, that they are poyſoned with Sauls ſpirit, leaven'dleavened with malice and envy, &c. Would not charity have required that you ſhould have …

    James Wood · A Little Stone Found to be Counterfeit · p. 104 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … to damne us. Yea, and you ſhall finde the hearts of ignorant people generally leaven'dleavened with this proud errour, though we know not ſo much as others, and fall …
    With rule
    … to damne us. Yea, and you ſhall finde the hearts of ignorant people generally leaven'dleavened with this proud errour, though we know not ſo much as others, and fall …

    Obadiah Sedgwick · The Riches of Grace Displayed · p. 54 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … may be taken about the bread of life, which while it hath been over-leaven'dleavened and kneaded, and set into the Oven by unskilful hands, the loaves have run …
    With rule
    … may be taken about the bread of life, which while it hath been over-leaven'dleavened and kneaded, and set into the Oven by unskilful hands, the loaves have run …

    William Nicholson · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Beginning; and to Leaven, hid in three Measures of Meal, 'till the whole was leaven'dleavened, &c.—And the Prophecies in the Epistles concerning the Restoration of the Nation of …
    With rule
    … Beginning; and to Leaven, hid in three Measures of Meal, 'till the whole was leaven'dleavened, &c.—And the Prophecies in the Epistles concerning the Restoration of the Nation of …

    Jonathan Edwards · Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will · p. 107 · 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.