Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9387 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ruin'druined

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

Puritas changed it: 605 times in 317 works
Consistency: 95.7% (605 of 632)
Reach if approved: ~664 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ruined
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 632 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (605 changes in 317 works, 95.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 605)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… call them Indifferent: We think them not so: And yet shall Protestant Religion be ruin'druined in all the World, rather than you should not have your will in our …
With rule
… call them Indifferent: We think them not so: And yet shall Protestant Religion be ruin'druined in all the World, rather than you should not have your will in our …
Richard Baxter · Baxters Narrative of His Life and Times · p. 136 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it behind; it is like a fair ſtructure long time a rearing, but quickly ruin'druined; or like a Merchants eſtate, long a getting, but loſt in a moment. And …
With rule
… it behind; it is like a fair ſtructure long time a rearing, but quickly ruin'druined; or like a Merchants eſtate, long a getting, but loſt in a moment. And …
Thomas Brooks · A Cabinet of Choice Jewels · p. 119 · Open in the reader
Printed
… perfect, but not imputed; ſo that indeed, according to their Doctrine, the ſinner is ruin'druined for want of righteouſneſs: Under the New Law is no righteouſneſs, and under the …
With rule
… perfect, but not imputed; ſo that indeed, according to their Doctrine, the ſinner is ruin'druined for want of righteouſneſs: Under the New Law is no righteouſneſs, and under the …
Isaac Chauncy · A Fresh Antidote Against Neonomian Bane · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… my Brethren) the diſtreſs that we are in, how Jeruſalem lyeth waſt, the walls ruin'druined, and the Gates thereof are burnt with fire. Come let us build up the …
With rule
… my Brethren) the diſtreſs that we are in, how Jeruſalem lyeth waſt, the walls ruin'druined, and the Gates thereof are burnt with fire. Come let us build up the …
Samuel Cradock · The History of the Old Testament Methodized · p. 661 · Open in the reader
Printed
And fills the low vale with his ruin'druined sides;
With rule
And fills the low vale with his ruin'druined sides;
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 163 · Open in the reader
Printed
Perhaps, thou hadſt beene ruin'druined quite.
With rule
Perhaps, thou hadſt beene ruin'druined quite.
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 193 · Open in the reader
Printed
… watches and attendances; sins that were not onely like Achans in our Army, and ruin'druined it by bringing the accursed thing into it, but were like Hannibal's Numidians in …
With rule
… watches and attendances; sins that were not onely like Achans in our Army, and ruin'druined it by bringing the accursed thing into it, but were like Hannibal's Numidians in …
Richard Allestree · Eighteen Sermons · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… dull captivity to the sensual Appetites? How often are the strongest Empires dissolv'd and ruin'druined? But the Saints in Heaven, by obeying God, reign triumphantly: no Passions, no Fears …
With rule
… dull captivity to the sensual Appetites? How often are the strongest Empires dissolv'd and ruin'druined? But the Saints in Heaven, by obeying God, reign triumphantly: no Passions, no Fears …
William Bates · The Blessed Place and State of the Saints Above · p. 37 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (27)

11 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 16 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Baxters Narrative of His Life and Times A27006

Printed
… drawing off the people from more private Meetings; if a competent Number of the Ruin'dRuined Cnurches be allowed to such sober Protestants, as will repair them, with the same …
With rule
… drawing off the people from more private Meetings; if a competent Number of the Ruin'dRuined Cnurches be allowed to such sober Protestants, as will repair them, with the same …
Richard Baxter · Baxters Narrative of His Life and Times · p. 24 · Open in the reader

A Memorial Offered to John Williams A43532

Printed
… the reſt, that ſate in the Tranſomes of the Galley. All the Agents were Ruin'dRuined together; for they complain'd both of the Reſiſting Council, and of the aſſiſting Council …
With rule
… the reſt, that ſate in the Tranſomes of the Galley. All the Agents were Ruin'dRuined together; for they complain'd both of the Reſiſting Council, and of the aſſiſting Council …
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 129 · Open in the reader

The Design and Nature of Historical Mistakes Found in Stillingfleet A45143

Printed
… Enemy, the Papiſts; The Union of Proteſtants being the moſt proper Mean, they are Ruin'dRuined if they do not vnite when they may. Propoſe any Terms, how difficult ſoever …
With rule
… Enemy, the Papiſts; The Union of Proteſtants being the moſt proper Mean, they are Ruin'dRuined if they do not vnite when they may. Propoſe any Terms, how difficult ſoever …
John Humfrey · The Design and Nature of Historical Mistakes Found in Stillingfleet · p. 27 · Open in the reader

A Reply to the Defense of Dr Stillingfleet A45154

Printed
… will not be ſatisfied, unleſs ſome notice be taken of thoſe that once already Ruin'dRuined King and Kingdom, &c. I will out of Dr. Heylin's Life of Laud, a …
With rule
… will not be ſatisfied, unleſs ſome notice be taken of thoſe that once already Ruin'dRuined King and Kingdom, &c. I will out of Dr. Heylin's Life of Laud, a …
John Humfrey · A Reply to the Defense of Dr Stillingfleet · p. 4 · Open in the reader

Distressed Zion Relieved A47473

Printed
Ruin'dRuined the Monarchy, and increast my fears;
With rule
Ruin'dRuined the Monarchy, and increast my fears;
Benjamin Keach · Distressed Zion Relieved · p. 103 · Open in the reader

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

Printed
… this Jeſus (whom he ſaw ſtanding) might receive his Soul when his Body was Ruin'dRuined, imitating his Lord herein, Luke 23.46. So after that his Martyrers might be pardoned: He …
With rule
… this Jeſus (whom he ſaw ſtanding) might receive his Soul when his Body was Ruin'dRuined, imitating his Lord herein, Luke 23.46. So after that his Martyrers might be pardoned: He …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 352 · Open in the reader

The Person and Period of the Antichrist A52810

Printed
… it is commonly known, that Antichriſt did not Riſe before the Pagan Empire was Ruin'dRuined: For that was the (foreign) that letted him from appearing, 2 Theſſ. 2.6.7. there was no Room …
With rule
… it is commonly known, that Antichriſt did not Riſe before the Pagan Empire was Ruin'dRuined: For that was the (foreign) that letted him from appearing, 2 Theſſ. 2.6.7. there was no Room …
Christopher Ness · The Person and Period of the Antichrist · p. 138 · Open in the reader

Divine Comforts A59579

Printed
… teaches, real quiet and reſt, both when the wicked Reigns, and when he is Ruin'dRuined. So that I make it a privilege and part of Bleſſedneſs granted by ſpecial …
With rule
… teaches, real quiet and reſt, both when the wicked Reigns, and when he is Ruin'dRuined. So that I make it a privilege and part of Bleſſedneſs granted by ſpecial …
Thomas Sharpe · Divine Comforts · p. 126 · Open in the reader

Exhortation to Repentance and Union Among Protestants A60131

Printed
… good joyn with the Papiſts, who promiſe us our Liberty, than adventure to be Ruin'dRuined by Proteſtants. That there is not now much ground to fear it, and therefore …
With rule
… good joyn with the Papiſts, who promiſe us our Liberty, than adventure to be Ruin'dRuined by Proteſtants. That there is not now much ground to fear it, and therefore …
John Shower · Exhortation to Repentance and Union Among Protestants · p. 53 · Open in the reader

Twelve Single Sermons N01630

Printed
… Company been carried away to Folly, and drawn into groſs Abominations? Ill Company has Ruin'dRuined Multitudes. Therefore, If ſinners intice thee, conſent thou not, Prov. 1.10. When vain Companions come …
With rule
… Company been carried away to Folly, and drawn into groſs Abominations? Ill Company has Ruin'dRuined Multitudes. Therefore, If ſinners intice thee, conſent thou not, Prov. 1.10. When vain Companions come …
Benjamin Wadsworth · Twelve Single Sermons · p. 101 · Open in the reader

The Doctrine of Original Sin N06399

Printed
… other Way of Salvation, but by LAW; WHICH IF WE ONCE TRANSGRESS, WE ARE RUIN'DRUINED FOR EVER. FOR WHO THEN FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD COULD BE SAVED …
With rule
… other Way of Salvation, but by LAW; WHICH IF WE ONCE TRANSGRESS, WE ARE RUIN'DRUINED FOR EVER. FOR WHO THEN FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD COULD BE SAVED …
Jonathan Edwards · The Doctrine of Original Sin · p. 12 · Open in the reader