Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9458 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tho'tsthoughts

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

Puritas changed it: 230 times in 69 works
Consistency: 100% (230 of 230)
Reach if approved: ~247 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 235 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (230 changes in 69 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 230)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… their greateſt burden, and dwelling with Chriſt their ſupreme delight, has wonderfully reconciled their tho'tsthoughts to a dying hour, and changed the dark valley of the ſhadow of death …
With rule
… their greateſt burden, and dwelling with Chriſt their ſupreme delight, has wonderfully reconciled their tho'tsthoughts to a dying hour, and changed the dark valley of the ſhadow of death …
Ebenezer Pemberton · Sermon on the Death of John Nicoll · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Viſit one another oft'ner, and be more Open and very ſafe in Communicating our Tho'tsThoughts to one another. We ſhou'd tenderly Sympathize with one another under Difficulties, and be …
With rule
… Viſit one another oft'ner, and be more Open and very ſafe in Communicating our Tho'tsThoughts to one another. We ſhou'd tenderly Sympathize with one another under Difficulties, and be …
Benjamin Colman · The Piety and Duty of Rulers to Comfort and Encourage the Ministry of Christ · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it ſelf will ſupply the Reader with a more labour'd and regular Train of tho'tsthoughts to this end. That which remains now for me to add is ſome Apology …
With rule
… it ſelf will ſupply the Reader with a more labour'd and regular Train of tho'tsthoughts to this end. That which remains now for me to add is ſome Apology …
William Williams · The Great Salvation Revealed and Offered · p. vi · Open in the reader
Printed
… Heart, while their heart is really cruel and deceitful. They have divers Setts of Tho'tsThoughts, and ſpeak according to the Company they're with. Such double-minded Men, don't make …
With rule
… Heart, while their heart is really cruel and deceitful. They have divers Setts of Tho'tsThoughts, and ſpeak according to the Company they're with. Such double-minded Men, don't make …
Thomas Symmes · Good Soldiers Described and Animated · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Consolations that are not small, & refresh their Spirits, in the multitude of their perplexed tho'tsthoughts within them. That he would give them Patience to submit to his Holy Will …
With rule
… Consolations that are not small, & refresh their Spirits, in the multitude of their perplexed tho'tsthoughts within them. That he would give them Patience to submit to his Holy Will …
Thomas Symmes · Lovewell Lamented · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… long in Bed. But let GOD and our Souls have the firſt and freſh Tho'tsThoughts of the Morning. Let us not ſtay to do a good part of the …
With rule
… long in Bed. But let GOD and our Souls have the firſt and freſh Tho'tsThoughts of the Morning. Let us not ſtay to do a good part of the …
Benjamin Colman · The Great and Important Duty of Family Worship · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
In ſweeteſt Numbers you your Tho'tsThoughts expreſs,
With rule
In ſweeteſt Numbers you your Tho'tsThoughts expreſs,
Benjamin Colman · The Fathers Tears over his Daughters Remains · p. 83 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Adherence were in a damnable. Condition. I anſwered, Such a Thing never enter'd my Tho'tsThoughts; I only ſaid, A Faith of Adherence was not to be reſted in, but …
With rule
… Adherence were in a damnable. Condition. I anſwered, Such a Thing never enter'd my Tho'tsThoughts; I only ſaid, A Faith of Adherence was not to be reſted in, but …
George Whitefield · Continuation of Journal from Arrival at Georgia to Return from Pennsylvania · p. 73 · 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.