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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9503 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mēsmen's

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

Puritas changed it
246 times in 131 works
Consistency
100% (246 of 246)
Reach if approved
~258 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
246 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (246 changes in 131 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 246)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Q How doth God prepare mēsmen's harts?
    With rule
    Q How doth God prepare mēsmen's harts?

    William Perkins · The Foundation of Christian Religion · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … are infinite, & therfore we neuer go about to number thē. We can number other mēsmen's daies and yeres, & think they wil die ere it be long, if we ſee …
    With rule
    … are infinite, & therfore we neuer go about to number thē. We can number other mēsmen's daies and yeres, & think they wil die ere it be long, if we ſee …

    Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 562 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … commandement and goinge without the bandes that they were compaſſed with / breake into other mēsmen's ground and haue beene ſo bold to prophane the holie charges with ther defiled …
    With rule
    … commandement and goinge without the bandes that they were compaſſed with / breake into other mēsmen's ground and haue beene ſo bold to prophane the holie charges with ther defiled …

    Walter Travers · Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God · p. 71 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Althogh I minde not to ſtand long in the praiſe of theſe worthye mēsmen's factes, who moſte cowardly were of many betrayed, which ſince perchance haue felt ſome …
    With rule
    Althogh I minde not to ſtand long in the praiſe of theſe worthye mēsmen's factes, who moſte cowardly were of many betrayed, which ſince perchance haue felt ſome …

    Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 203 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … vs be born with in this, & beſides it we will mēd any thing. As mēsmen's courſes are many, for the attaining of an Opiniō of religiō, ſo their endes …
    With rule
    … vs be born with in this, & beſides it we will mēd any thing. As mēsmen's courſes are many, for the attaining of an Opiniō of religiō, ſo their endes …

    Samuel Hieron · Truths Purchase · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … without takyng any maner of paines, but liuing altogether by the ſweate of other mēsmen's browes. And what commoditie is engendred of ſloth and ydlenes (ſpecially when it is …
    With rule
    … without takyng any maner of paines, but liuing altogether by the ſweate of other mēsmen's browes. And what commoditie is engendred of ſloth and ydlenes (ſpecially when it is …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … of thē, so yt he may liue pleasātly & wealthely of y• sweat of other mēsmen's browes. Yea & wo be to al thē, which beyng able to healpe y• nede …
    With rule
    … of thē, so yt he may liue pleasātly & wealthely of y• sweat of other mēsmen's browes. Yea & wo be to al thē, which beyng able to healpe y• nede …

    Thomas Becon · The Fortress of the Faithful Against the Cruel Assaults of Poverty and Hunger · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … added, theſe natural knowleges be gods lawe, bycauſe they be diuinly indicted & gyuē to mēsmen's mindes, therfore Paule calleth theſe lawes Rom .i. ye law of God, herby eaſely …
    With rule
    … added, theſe natural knowleges be gods lawe, bycauſe they be diuinly indicted & gyuē to mēsmen's mindes, therfore Paule calleth theſe lawes Rom .i. ye law of God, herby eaſely …

    Philipp Melanchthon · A Civil Nosegay · 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.