Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9533 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

scatter'dscattered

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

Puritas changed it: 315 times in 208 works
Consistency: 95.7% (315 of 329)
Reach if approved: ~346 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: scattered
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 329 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (315 changes in 208 works, 95.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 315)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Though ſcatter'dscattered for a while, deſign'd to meet again.
With rule
Though ſcatter'dscattered for a while, deſign'd to meet again.
John Allison · Upon the Late Lamentable Fire in London · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… if He had never felt any Grief till then: His former Afflictions were like scatter'dscattered drops of Rain; But as in the Deluge All the Fountains beneath, and all …
With rule
… if He had never felt any Grief till then: His former Afflictions were like scatter'dscattered drops of Rain; But as in the Deluge All the Fountains beneath, and all …
William Bates · The Harmony of the Divine Attributes in Mans Redemption · p. 172 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Church hath thereby a Reſidence in it; and much more than thoſe fore-mentioned ſcatter'dscattered Jews a Holy Nation, as it is Nationally reſign'd up to God in the …
With rule
… Church hath thereby a Reſidence in it; and much more than thoſe fore-mentioned ſcatter'dscattered Jews a Holy Nation, as it is Nationally reſign'd up to God in the …
Thomas Beverley · The Principle of Protestant Truth and Peace · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Men, Lissa, Gradiska, Buman, Novigrad, and Sisseg, or Sisseck, with others of lesser Note, scatter'dscattered throughout the Provinces, which are partly in the Hands of the Turks, and partly …
With rule
… Men, Lissa, Gradiska, Buman, Novigrad, and Sisseg, or Sisseck, with others of lesser Note, scatter'dscattered throughout the Provinces, which are partly in the Hands of the Turks, and partly …
Samuel Clarke · A New Description of the World · p. 80 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be carried into Heaven, all theſe Miſts ſhall be diſpell'd; theſe Clouds ſhall be ſcatter'dscattered; this dark and gloomy Day ſhall end in a bright and glorious Sunſhine for …
With rule
… be carried into Heaven, all theſe Miſts ſhall be diſpell'd; theſe Clouds ſhall be ſcatter'dscattered; this dark and gloomy Day ſhall end in a bright and glorious Sunſhine for …
Thomas Doolittle · The Saints Convoy to Heaven · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… made Christs bowels to yearn and roll within him, when he saw the multitude scatter'dscattered as sheep having no shepherd, Matth. 9.36.
With rule
… made Christs bowels to yearn and roll within him, when he saw the multitude scatter'dscattered as sheep having no shepherd, Matth. 9.36.
John Flavel · The Soul of Man · p. 389 · Open in the reader
Printed
… dayes were many Lyons, and they roar'd terribly upon the mountains of Iſrael; they ſcatter'dscattered, toar, and devoured the Flocks of the Lord which were feeding upon thoſe mountaines …
With rule
… dayes were many Lyons, and they roar'd terribly upon the mountains of Iſrael; they ſcatter'dscattered, toar, and devoured the Flocks of the Lord which were feeding upon thoſe mountaines …
William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 · p. 603 · Open in the reader
Printed
… loos'd into the Worlds vanities, but gathered vp and contracted in his station. Not scatter'dscattered into many pieces of businesses, but that one course he takes, goes thorough with …
With rule
… loos'd into the Worlds vanities, but gathered vp and contracted in his station. Not scatter'dscattered into many pieces of businesses, but that one course he takes, goes thorough with …
John Earle · Micro-Cosmography · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

9 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Gentile Sinner A39252

Printed
… hewen; and to the pit, whence you were digged. Search your Pedigrees; Collect the Scatter'dScattered Monuments and Histories of your Ancestors: and observe by what steps your worthy Progenitors …
With rule
… hewen; and to the pit, whence you were digged. Search your Pedigrees; Collect the Scatter'dScattered Monuments and Histories of your Ancestors: and observe by what steps your worthy Progenitors …
Clement Ellis · The Gentile Sinner · Open in the reader

Of Christian Communion A47305

Printed
… Ministrations, for Strengthning the Diseased, or for Healing the Sick, or for Reducing the Scatter'dScattered, or Recovering the Lost, as the needs of the Flock shall require, Ezek. 34. 2, 3. 4. 10.
With rule
… Ministrations, for Strengthning the Diseased, or for Healing the Sick, or for Reducing the Scatter'dScattered, or Recovering the Lost, as the needs of the Flock shall require, Ezek. 34. 2, 3. 4. 10.
John Kettlewell · Of Christian Communion · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
Thus God blames the Shepheards of Israel, because, when the Flocks were Scatter'dScattered, none did search or seek after them; when any were driven away, none sought …
With rule
Thus God blames the Shepheards of Israel, because, when the Flocks were Scatter'dScattered, none did search or seek after them; when any were driven away, none sought …
John Kettlewell · Of Christian Communion · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… This Gathering, and Keeping them together, God takes notice of in Shepheards. He that Scatter'dScattered Israel, will gather him, as a Shepheard doth his Flock, Jer. 31. 10. When he carries …
With rule
… This Gathering, and Keeping them together, God takes notice of in Shepheards. He that Scatter'dScattered Israel, will gather him, as a Shepheard doth his Flock, Jer. 31. 10. When he carries …
John Kettlewell · Of Christian Communion · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Lost, to recover it again; if any, by the Fright, were driven away, or Scatter'dScattered, he endeavours to bring it back. He Strengthens, what was Diseased; and Heals, what …
With rule
… Lost, to recover it again; if any, by the Fright, were driven away, or Scatter'dScattered, he endeavours to bring it back. He Strengthens, what was Diseased; and Heals, what …
John Kettlewell · Of Christian Communion · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Seducers, nor to keep them together, when they are in Danger to be Scatter'dScattered; nor to bring them back, when they are straying from the Fold? Or, that …
With rule
… and Seducers, nor to keep them together, when they are in Danger to be Scatter'dScattered; nor to bring them back, when they are straying from the Fold? Or, that …
John Kettlewell · Of Christian Communion · p. 53 · Open in the reader

A Complete and Compendious Church History A52804

Printed
… Jews, calling them a certain People, as if they had not been worth Nameing, Scatter'dScattered abroad, as if that had been their Fault, not their Miſery, Diſperſed among the …
With rule
… Jews, calling them a certain People, as if they had not been worth Nameing, Scatter'dScattered abroad, as if that had been their Fault, not their Miſery, Diſperſed among the …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 262 · Open in the reader
Printed
… onely, as before, but) upon the whole Church, Act. 8. 1. ſo that they were all Scatter'dScattered abroad; and Satan had Saul, a fit Tool to effect this by, who (1) was …
With rule
… onely, as before, but) upon the whole Church, Act. 8. 1. ſo that they were all Scatter'dScattered abroad; and Satan had Saul, a fit Tool to effect this by, who (1) was …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 376 · Open in the reader

Three Poems Related to the Destruction of London by Fire B23054

Printed
Scatter'dScattered by Winds too farre to tell.
With rule
Scatter'dScattered by Winds too farre to tell.
Simon Ford · Three Poems Related to the Destruction of London by Fire · p. 3 · Open in the reader