Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40194 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

inforc'denforced

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

Puritas changed it: 50 times in 46 works
Consistency: 98.0% (50 of 51)
Reach if approved: ~56 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: enforced
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 (50 changes in 46 works, 98.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 50)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Law, or Law of Love, (which is the perpetual Law of God, and re-inforc'denforced by Chriſt, and requires us to love God above all, and our Neighbour as …
With rule
… Law, or Law of Love, (which is the perpetual Law of God, and re-inforc'denforced by Chriſt, and requires us to love God above all, and our Neighbour as …
Samuel Cradock · The Apostolical History · p. 168 · Open in the reader
Printed
Theſe things I have been inforc'denforced to publiſh for vindication of the Colledges repute from thoſe ſcandals endeavuor'd to be …
With rule
Theſe things I have been inforc'denforced to publiſh for vindication of the Colledges repute from thoſe ſcandals endeavuor'd to be …
Charles Hotham · The Petition and Argument of Mr Hotham · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Omen from us) then when the Inhabitants, to avoid insufferable grievances at home, are inforc'denforced by heaps to forsake their native Country. Now wheras the only remedy, and amends …
With rule
… Omen from us) then when the Inhabitants, to avoid insufferable grievances at home, are inforc'denforced by heaps to forsake their native Country. Now wheras the only remedy, and amends …
John Milton · Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… demonstrated by innumerable Instances out of Ecclesiastical History; for they not only made Laws inforc'denforced with temporal Penalties for the regulation of the Clergy, as well as Laity, not …
With rule
… demonstrated by innumerable Instances out of Ecclesiastical History; for they not only made Laws inforc'denforced with temporal Penalties for the regulation of the Clergy, as well as Laity, not …
John Scott · The Christian Life Part 2 Volume 2 · p. 379 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Judgement▪ there were none ſuch: Lot could have no Juſtice from them, and that inforc'denforced God to execute Juſtice on them.
With rule
… Judgement▪ there were none ſuch: Lot could have no Juſtice from them, and that inforc'denforced God to execute Juſtice on them.
William Greenhill · The Axe at the Root · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
If this condition needs muſt be inforc'denforced,
With rule
If this condition needs muſt be inforc'denforced,
William Strode · The Floating Island · Open in the reader
Printed
… their own Government for upwards of Sixty Years; they have often Reviſed and Re-inforc'denforced the Eſtabliſhment, both as the Principles of their Conſociation and Union in General, and …
With rule
… their own Government for upwards of Sixty Years; they have often Reviſed and Re-inforc'denforced the Eſtabliſhment, both as the Principles of their Conſociation and Union in General, and …
John Wise · The Churchs Quarrel Espoused · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
And ſay thy braine inforc'denforced thy tongue to raue.
With rule
And ſay thy braine inforc'denforced thy tongue to raue.
John Andrewes · The Anatomy of Baseness · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.