Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9463 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

esausesau's

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

Puritas changed it: 676 times in 317 works
Consistency: 100% (676 of 676)
Reach if approved: ~710 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: esa's
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 676 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (676 changes in 317 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 676)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… preſent honour and proſperity, they will hazard heauen, and the eternall Paradiſe. Such profane EſausEsau's will ſell their future hopes for a preſent meaſe of pottage: if euer ſuch …
With rule
… preſent honour and proſperity, they will hazard heauen, and the eternall Paradiſe. Such profane EſausEsau's will ſell their future hopes for a preſent meaſe of pottage: if euer ſuch …
Richard Bernard · A Weeks Work and a Work for Every Week · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
This was EsausEsau's sinne, and the sinne of the Gadarens, Math. 8. who preferred worldly goods before spirituall …
With rule
This was EsausEsau's sinne, and the sinne of the Gadarens, Math. 8. who preferred worldly goods before spirituall …
William Perkins · The Reformation of Covetousness · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to haue them ſcaled; yet ſo long as our Chams continue their ſcoffing; our EſausEsau's their prophaning; our Senacheribs their blaſpheming; our Achans their theeuing; our Nabals their coueting …
With rule
… to haue them ſcaled; yet ſo long as our Chams continue their ſcoffing; our EſausEsau's their prophaning; our Senacheribs their blaſpheming; our Achans their theeuing; our Nabals their coueting …
Nehemiah Rogers · A Strange Vineyard in Palestine · p. 241 · Open in the reader
Printed
… gotten of God by prayer, God, that makes even of enemies friends, hee turned EsausEsau's heart, of an enemie to bee a friend. And God put into Iacobs heart …
With rule
… gotten of God by prayer, God, that makes even of enemies friends, hee turned EsausEsau's heart, of an enemie to bee a friend. And God put into Iacobs heart …
Richard Sibbes · The Spiritual Favorite at the Throne of Grace · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… diſſembling, lying, couſonage in bargayning, inſnarings (called ale-houſe bargaines) waſting your good, like EſausEsau's: then is it ſuch like as S. Peter ſpeakes of, 1 Pet. 4. 3. 4. It's like the …
With rule
… diſſembling, lying, couſonage in bargayning, inſnarings (called ale-houſe bargaines) waſting your good, like EſausEsau's: then is it ſuch like as S. Peter ſpeakes of, 1 Pet. 4. 3. 4. It's like the …
Thomas Granger · Pauls Crown of Rejoicing · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… maketh no conſcience of ſinne, is but a diſſembler. Hee hath Iacobs voice, but EſausEsau's hands . His words are the words of bleſſing, but his deeds are full of …
With rule
… maketh no conſcience of ſinne, is but a diſſembler. Hee hath Iacobs voice, but EſausEsau's hands . His words are the words of bleſſing, but his deeds are full of …
Samuel Hieron · The Abridgment of the Gospel · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… would not be iudged ſuch, muſt eate to liue to God. There are many EſausEsau's now, and their number is without number that hunt all for the belly in …
With rule
… would not be iudged ſuch, muſt eate to liue to God. There are many EſausEsau's now, and their number is without number that hunt all for the belly in …
Robert Horne · Of the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fully to kyll hys brother. But Iacob prayed to the Lord / and so mollifyed EsausEsau's harte / in so muche that when Iacob thought / that both he and hys shoulde …
With rule
… fully to kyll hys brother. But Iacob prayed to the Lord / and so mollifyed EsausEsau's harte / in so muche that when Iacob thought / that both he and hys shoulde …
Thomas Becon · A Comfortable Epistle to Gods Faithful People in England · 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.