Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9535 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

achabsahab's

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

Puritas changed it: 130 times in 87 works
Consistency: 97.7% (130 of 133)
Reach if approved: ~140 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ahab's
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 133 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (130 changes in 87 works, 97.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 130)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Achab is sick for Naboths vineyard, and Iezabel religious in proclayming a fast for AchabsAhab's sicknes, then let Naboth look to his life. There is nothing but ioyning house …
With rule
… Achab is sick for Naboths vineyard, and Iezabel religious in proclayming a fast for AchabsAhab's sicknes, then let Naboth look to his life. There is nothing but ioyning house …
William Burton · A Sermon Preached 21 December 1589 · Open in the reader
Printed
… self, & other Ministers of the Gospel pleading for the gouernement established, they compare to AchabsAhab's 400. prophets, and such as plead for Baal. Yea but our doctrine tendeth to the …
With rule
… self, & other Ministers of the Gospel pleading for the gouernement established, they compare to AchabsAhab's 400. prophets, and such as plead for Baal. Yea but our doctrine tendeth to the …
George Downame · A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that he tempteth vnto euill. He sent the lying spirite into the mouth of AchabsAhab's Prophets, for a punishment vnto Achab, and them: yet he neither tempted Achab to …
With rule
… that he tempteth vnto euill. He sent the lying spirite into the mouth of AchabsAhab's Prophets, for a punishment vnto Achab, and them: yet he neither tempted Achab to …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 498 · Open in the reader
Printed
… His mother alſo was Athaliah the daughter of Omrie King of Iſraell, who was AchabsAhab's father. 2. Reg. 8. verſe. 26.
With rule
… His mother alſo was Athaliah the daughter of Omrie King of Iſraell, who was AchabsAhab's father. 2. Reg. 8. verſe. 26.
Andrew Kingsmill · A View of Mans Estate · Open in the reader
Printed
… respect of fault and punishment. Here they alleadge the example of the Nineuites, and AchabsAhab's fasting, whereby they turned away the iudgements of God denounced against thē by his …
With rule
… respect of fault and punishment. Here they alleadge the example of the Nineuites, and AchabsAhab's fasting, whereby they turned away the iudgements of God denounced against thē by his …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 980 · Open in the reader
Printed
… againe. There is an accent to be set upon that, that it was in AchabsAhab's time. Hiel would needs build Iericho againe, and why should hee build it? Hiel …
With rule
… againe. There is an accent to be set upon that, that it was in AchabsAhab's time. Hiel would needs build Iericho againe, and why should hee build it? Hiel …
Richard Sibbes · Evangelical Sacrifices · p. 112 · Open in the reader
Printed
… And as the Lord put an impure ſpirit of errour in the mouth of AchabsAhab's falſe Prophets, to entiſe him to goe vp to Ramoch Giliad, that he might …
With rule
… And as the Lord put an impure ſpirit of errour in the mouth of AchabsAhab's falſe Prophets, to entiſe him to goe vp to Ramoch Giliad, that he might …
John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ieroboam, then the word of the Lord. Furthermore, when Iehu had destroyed Iezabell king AchabsAhab's wife and all his posteritie, and therewithall made cleane riddance of all the Priestes …
With rule
… Ieroboam, then the word of the Lord. Furthermore, when Iehu had destroyed Iezabell king AchabsAhab's wife and all his posteritie, and therewithall made cleane riddance of all the Priestes …
Henrich Bullinger · Confutation of the Popes Bull · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.