Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #40197 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fain'dfeigned

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

Puritas changed it: 49 times in 39 works
Consistency: 100% (49 of 49)
Reach if approved: ~53 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: feigned
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 (49 changes in 39 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 49)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Which out of lips fain'dfeigned go not out
With rule
Which out of lips fain'dfeigned go not out
Edward Reynolds · The Divine Penitential Meditations and Vows of His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
For England fain'dfeigned, bearing their flag aloft.
With rule
For England fain'dfeigned, bearing their flag aloft.
Edward Winslow · Good News from New England · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
With ſuch fain'dfeigned Excellencies they bepaint him;
With rule
With ſuch fain'dfeigned Excellencies they bepaint him;
George Wither · Britains Genius · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
His looks fain'dfeigned hopes and his heart griefes supprest.
With rule
His looks fain'dfeigned hopes and his heart griefes supprest.
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 231 · Open in the reader
Printed
I could not thinke, all that might haue been fain'dfeigned,
With rule
I could not thinke, all that might haue been fain'dfeigned,
George Wither · Fidelia Newly Corrected and Augmented · Open in the reader
Printed
… of faith without book. I would you were all as truly ſuch as Orlandine fain'dfeigned and imagin'd him to be. I would you were ſuch as that Antonius of …
With rule
… of faith without book. I would you were all as truly ſuch as Orlandine fain'dfeigned and imagin'd him to be. I would you were ſuch as that Antonius of …
John Hacket · A Century of Sermons · p. 724 · Open in the reader
Printed
… barren hearts with a conſcientious ſlavery, if, as I rather think, it be not fain'dfeigned. Others laſtly of a more delicious and airie ſpirit, retire themſelves knowing no better …
With rule
… barren hearts with a conſcientious ſlavery, if, as I rather think, it be not fain'dfeigned. Others laſtly of a more delicious and airie ſpirit, retire themſelves knowing no better …
John Milton · Poems · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
… lists with him. And yet all this but a mere flourish; a faint and fain'dfeigned bravada: his heart the while in the midst of his belly is as cold …
With rule
… lists with him. And yet all this but a mere flourish; a faint and fain'dfeigned bravada: his heart the while in the midst of his belly is as cold …
Robert Sanderson · Twenty Sermons · p. 382 · 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.