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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9423 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

refer'dreferred

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

Puritas changed it
213 times in 124 works
Consistency
98.1% (213 of 217)
Reach if approved
~228 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: referred
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
217 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (213 changes in 124 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 213)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … but it was not finished while the Council sate, and therefore Sess. 25. it was refer'dreferred to the Judgment and Authority of the Pope. I confess therefore it hath not …
    With rule
    … but it was not finished while the Council sate, and therefore Sess. 25. it was refer'dreferred to the Judgment and Authority of the Pope. I confess therefore it hath not …

    Edward Stillingfleet · The Council of Trent Examined and Disproved · p. iv · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … excellent Treatiſe of the Author, call'd The Heavenly Trade; to which the Reader is refer'dreferred.
    With rule
    … excellent Treatiſe of the Author, call'd The Heavenly Trade; to which the Reader is refer'dreferred.

    Bartholomew Ashwood · The Best Treasure · p. 384 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … are not worldly; I do not mean only external ones, for they may be refer'dreferred to that head of the weapons of Chriſt; but we take them under another …
    With rule
    … are not worldly; I do not mean only external ones, for they may be refer'dreferred to that head of the weapons of Chriſt; but we take them under another …

    Jeremiah Burroughs · Gospel Conversation · p. 147 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … do bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. Therefore he still refer'dreferred those that doubted of him, or of his Doctrine, to this Seal of his …
    With rule
    … do bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. Therefore he still refer'dreferred those that doubted of him, or of his Doctrine, to this Seal of his …

    John Flavel · The Fountain of Life · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … refer'dreferred to the Synod, is either compoſed, or huſht up again in ſilence, and refer'dreferred to the National Synod, held once every year. Hither come, not onely the Paſtors …
    With rule
    … refer'dreferred to the Synod, is either compoſed, or huſht up again in ſilence, and refer'dreferred to the National Synod, held once every year. Hither come, not onely the Paſtors …

    John Geree · The Sifters Sieve Broken · p. 88 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … it, let the case be more fully understood; Either this double unwillingness must be refer'dreferred to the same thing, or to divers: If to the same thing, it is …
    With rule
    … it, let the case be more fully understood; Either this double unwillingness must be refer'dreferred to the same thing, or to divers: If to the same thing, it is …

    John Howe · The Vanity of This Mortal Life · p. 156 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … power creating and making we have already ſpoken; the perſons to whom this is refer'dreferred, is our next thing to conſider, who are noted in this terme foreign us.—Who …
    With rule
    … power creating and making we have already ſpoken; the perſons to whom this is refer'dreferred, is our next thing to conſider, who are noted in this terme foreign us.—Who …

    Nicholas Lockyer · Balm for Bleeding England and Ireland · p. 285 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … and to cover his Deſign ſuppreſſeth that Part of the Sentence to which I refer'dreferred; and therefore have little Reaſon to believe his Accuſations of Mr. B. or any …
    With rule
    … and to cover his Deſign ſuppreſſeth that Part of the Sentence to which I refer'dreferred; and therefore have little Reaſon to believe his Accuſations of Mr. B. or any …

    James Owen · Further Vindication of the Dissenters · p. 31 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.