Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9493 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

threaten'dthreatened

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

Puritas changed it: 122 times in 63 works
Consistency: 99.1% (122 of 123)
Reach if approved: ~129 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: threatened
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 123 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (122 changes in 63 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 122)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… But they conſider not, that the Puniſhment of Sinners in onother World, is oftner threaten'dthreatened, and more largely deſcrib'd in the New Teſtament, than in the Old. Our Saviour …
With rule
… But they conſider not, that the Puniſhment of Sinners in onother World, is oftner threaten'dthreatened, and more largely deſcrib'd in the New Teſtament, than in the Old. Our Saviour …
John Shower · Heaven and Hell · p. 119 · Open in the reader
Printed
… declaring to us, that if we will receive inſtruction and take warning the evil threaten'dthreatened ſhall not come. For what other reaſon can there be, why God ſhould threaten …
With rule
… declaring to us, that if we will receive inſtruction and take warning the evil threaten'dthreatened ſhall not come. For what other reaſon can there be, why God ſhould threaten …
John Tillotson · Sermons and Discourses Volume 4 · p. 234 · Open in the reader
Printed
That threaten'dthreatened Heavens ne're fear'd a flame so nigh.
With rule
That threaten'dthreatened Heavens ne're fear'd a flame so nigh.
Simon Ford · Three Poems Related to the Destruction of London by Fire · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Heart, inſtead of fainting & ſubſiding, roſe & biggen'd, in proportion to any growing Danger which threaten'dthreatened him. Being ſtrong in Faith; this carry'd him thro' Seas of Difficulties, & kept him …
With rule
… Heart, inſtead of fainting & ſubſiding, roſe & biggen'd, in proportion to any growing Danger which threaten'dthreatened him. Being ſtrong in Faith; this carry'd him thro' Seas of Difficulties, & kept him …
Thomas Foxcroft · Ministers Spiritual Parents · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of dearest earthly Friends, and sometimes when some of their Lives have been imminently threaten'dthreatened; often expressing the Sweetness of the Liberty of having wholly left the World, and …
With rule
… of dearest earthly Friends, and sometimes when some of their Lives have been imminently threaten'dthreatened; often expressing the Sweetness of the Liberty of having wholly left the World, and …
Jonathan Edwards · Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New England · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he had made prize of any of our vessels in that way, as he threaten'dthreatened, we should have righted ourselves so well as we could without injury to himself …
With rule
… he had made prize of any of our vessels in that way, as he threaten'dthreatened, we should have righted ourselves so well as we could without injury to himself …
John Winthrop · Journal of the Settlements of Massachusets and Other Colonies · p. 299 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he reviled not again; and when th…y put him to death, he neither threaten'dthreatened nor menac'd; but, praying for his perſecutors, committed himſelf and his cauſe to God …
With rule
… he reviled not again; and when th…y put him to death, he neither threaten'dthreatened nor menac'd; but, praying for his perſecutors, committed himſelf and his cauſe to God …
Samuel Cradock · The Apostolical History · p. 406 · Open in the reader
Printed
… then by the ſame Rule we muſt ſay, that eternal Death and Ruin is threaten'dthreatened to them, on condition they do not believe. But the Threatnings of this Wo …
With rule
… then by the ſame Rule we muſt ſay, that eternal Death and Ruin is threaten'dthreatened to them, on condition they do not believe. But the Threatnings of this Wo …
Thomas Goodwin · The True Nature of the Gospel · p. 58 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.