Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9521 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

isaacksisaac's

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

Puritas changed it: 178 times in 90 works
Consistency: 100% (178 of 178)
Reach if approved: ~187 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: isaac's
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 178 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (178 changes in 90 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 178)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… as nothing, in compariſon, yea, rather as a paſtime. So in like manner, as IſaacksIsaac's ſporting with Rebecca plainly diſcouered that ſhe was his wife, how cloſely ſoeuer he …
With rule
… as nothing, in compariſon, yea, rather as a paſtime. So in like manner, as IſaacksIsaac's ſporting with Rebecca plainly diſcouered that ſhe was his wife, how cloſely ſoeuer he …
John Carter · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 72 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Gods Altar was, there was Gods Name, and where Gods Name was, there was IsaacksIsaac's Tent. It is good pitching ones Tent where the Altar is. Why so? Gods …
With rule
… Gods Altar was, there was Gods Name, and where Gods Name was, there was IsaacksIsaac's Tent. It is good pitching ones Tent where the Altar is. Why so? Gods …
Jeremiah Dyke · Sermon 28 October 1622 · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
Where are now those IsaacksIsaac's, that meditate while they are young? Those Iacobs that prize and seek the heavenly …
With rule
Where are now those IsaacksIsaac's, that meditate while they are young? Those Iacobs that prize and seek the heavenly …
Samuel Crossman · The Young Mans Monitor · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſlay my brother Jacob, Gen. 27.41. an inſolent as well as a violent reſolution, for IſaacksIsaac's and Iacobs life and his owne likewiſe were all at Gods diſpoſall, as a …
With rule
… ſlay my brother Jacob, Gen. 27.41. an inſolent as well as a violent reſolution, for IſaacksIsaac's and Iacobs life and his owne likewiſe were all at Gods diſpoſall, as a …
John Ley · A Monitor of Mortality · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… flesh, persecuted him which was born after the spirite, for so it was in IsaacksIsaac's time: so sayde S. Paule, it was in his time also: And whether it …
With rule
… flesh, persecuted him which was born after the spirite, for so it was in IsaacksIsaac's time: so sayde S. Paule, it was in his time also: And whether it …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1777 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and ſeruice as worthie of acceptation as Abels: ſcornfull Iſhmael as good, as religious IſaacksIsaac's: prophane Eſaus, as holy Iacobs. For vnbeleeuers are ſo blind, that they iudge the …
With rule
… and ſeruice as worthie of acceptation as Abels: ſcornfull Iſhmael as good, as religious IſaacksIsaac's: prophane Eſaus, as holy Iacobs. For vnbeleeuers are ſo blind, that they iudge the …
Henry Holland · The Christian Exercise of Fasting · p. 95 · Open in the reader
Printed
… actually enioyned him to doe it, yet God intended not the vnnaturall shedding of IsaacksIsaac's blood, but the admirable probate of Abrahams faith: The Niniuites were bound to beleeue …
With rule
… actually enioyned him to doe it, yet God intended not the vnnaturall shedding of IsaacksIsaac's blood, but the admirable probate of Abrahams faith: The Niniuites were bound to beleeue …
William Prynne · The Church of Englands Antithesis to Arminianism · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Seeing it is unprofitable: as what profit had Ismael of his Circumcision, Esau in IsaacksIsaac's family, or Iudas in Christs family, being profane. 4. Seeing to be in the Church …
With rule
… Seeing it is unprofitable: as what profit had Ismael of his Circumcision, Esau in IsaacksIsaac's family, or Iudas in Christs family, being profane. 4. Seeing to be in the Church …
Thomas Taylor · The Progress of Saints to Full Holiness · p. 370 · 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.