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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9547 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

luthersluther's

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

Puritas changed it
1,344 times in 571 works
Consistency
99.7% (1,344 of 1,347)
Reach if approved
~1,415 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: luther's
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,347 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,344 changes in 571 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,344)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    LuthersLuther's Predecessours: OR, AN ANSWERE TO THE QVESTION OF THE PAPISTS: Where was your Church …
    With rule
    LuthersLuther's Predecessours: OR, AN ANSWERE TO THE QVESTION OF THE PAPISTS: Where was your Church …

    Thomas Bedford · Luthers Predecessors · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … It hath bin alwaies a Church, and did not first begin to be in LuthersLuther's time: but onely then began to shew it selfe, as hauing bin hid by …
    With rule
    … It hath bin alwaies a Church, and did not first begin to be in LuthersLuther's time: but onely then began to shew it selfe, as hauing bin hid by …

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 1011 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … amongſt them that did profeſſe our Religion (though much obſcured by them) euen before LuthersLuther's time. To the ſecond demand concerning our Fathers that liued in their Church, what …
    With rule
    … amongſt them that did profeſſe our Religion (though much obſcured by them) euen before LuthersLuther's time. To the ſecond demand concerning our Fathers that liued in their Church, what …

    John Randall · Twenty-Nine Lectures · p. 141 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … to that that is good, is onely from the spirit; and the defence of LuthersLuther's, and others that wrote of this freedome is sound, and good, that the will …
    With rule
    … to that that is good, is onely from the spirit; and the defence of LuthersLuther's, and others that wrote of this freedome is sound, and good, that the will …

    Richard Sibbes · The Excellency of the Gospel Above the Law · p. 130 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … farre from them & without their reach. Their lies are so notorious, as that of LuthersLuther's and Caluines death, that vvhole countries can and are ready to testifie the contrary …
    With rule
    … farre from them & without their reach. Their lies are so notorious, as that of LuthersLuther's and Caluines death, that vvhole countries can and are ready to testifie the contrary …

    John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Wherefore if LuthersLuther's calling were altogether extraordinary, (as Papistes can not say, except they deny the calling …
    With rule
    Wherefore if LuthersLuther's calling were altogether extraordinary, (as Papistes can not say, except they deny the calling …

    William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 72 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the Cardinals stoode against it, vrginge especiallye that the sayd bishop was infected with LuthersLuther's heresye: What then quoth the Pope, were it not better for vs by putting …
    With rule
    … the Cardinals stoode against it, vrginge especiallye that the sayd bishop was infected with LuthersLuther's heresye: What then quoth the Pope, were it not better for vs by putting …

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    12. Thus hath this Man of ſinne beene in his wane and declination, euer ſince LuthersLuther's time: but whether his old and decrepit age be yet come, is hard to …
    With rule
    12. Thus hath this Man of ſinne beene in his wane and declination, euer ſince LuthersLuther's time: but whether his old and decrepit age be yet come, is hard to …

    Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 182 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Sum of Christian Religion A64611

  • Printed
    LUthersLuther's foundation and maine ground, at firſt, was thoſe words onely of Chriſt, This is …
    With rule
    LUthersLuther's foundation and maine ground, at firſt, was thoſe words onely of Chriſt, This is …

    Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion · p. 451 · Open in the reader