Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9551 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

temper'dtempered

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

Puritas changed it: 218 times in 152 works
Consistency: 95.6% (218 of 228)
Reach if approved: ~240 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: tempered
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 228 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (218 changes in 152 works, 95.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 218)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… other; the very phrase is more florid and rhetorical, rising to a certain well temper'dtempered gravity mixed with sweetness. Such was the Attick Dialect: Atticorum aures teretes ad quas …
With rule
… other; the very phrase is more florid and rhetorical, rising to a certain well temper'dtempered gravity mixed with sweetness. Such was the Attick Dialect: Atticorum aures teretes ad quas …
Jonathan Hanmer · A View of Antiquity Presented · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Patrons thereof, his Soul came not into their secret. And therefore if any ill-temper'dtempered persons, men of wild Principles and Practices, should abuse his name to the countenancing …
With rule
… Patrons thereof, his Soul came not into their secret. And therefore if any ill-temper'dtempered persons, men of wild Principles and Practices, should abuse his name to the countenancing …
Joseph Mede · Works · p. X · Open in the reader
Printed
Light-hearted, healthy, stout, well-temper'dtempered, strong,
With rule
Light-hearted, healthy, stout, well-temper'dtempered, strong,
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · Open in the reader
Printed
… and agreeing to every tast, and serving to the appetite of the eater, it temper'dtempered it self to every man's liking, and what could they fansy more? the latitude …
With rule
… and agreeing to every tast, and serving to the appetite of the eater, it temper'dtempered it self to every man's liking, and what could they fansy more? the latitude …
Richard Allestree · A Sermon Preached 17 November 1667 · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… guilty Passions that ferment and rage in Adversity, are more pernicious, and more hardly temper'dtempered and subdued, than the Luxurious Appetites that are fomented and drawn forth by Prosperity …
With rule
… guilty Passions that ferment and rage in Adversity, are more pernicious, and more hardly temper'dtempered and subdued, than the Luxurious Appetites that are fomented and drawn forth by Prosperity …
William Bates · The Great Duty of Resignation to the Divine Will · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… requires of all that would enjoy the benefit of Redemption. His Wiſdom hath ſo temper'dtempered all the Conditions of it, that the Honour of his Holineſs is as much …
With rule
… requires of all that would enjoy the benefit of Redemption. His Wiſdom hath ſo temper'dtempered all the Conditions of it, that the Honour of his Holineſs is as much …
Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 515 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Trenches, every where it finds the weakneſs of our Armour, and through the beſt temper'dtempered Breaſtplates it ſtrikes the proudeſt Hearts. In the darkeſt Dungeons it finds us out …
With rule
… Trenches, every where it finds the weakneſs of our Armour, and through the beſt temper'dtempered Breaſtplates it ſtrikes the proudeſt Hearts. In the darkeſt Dungeons it finds us out …
Charles Drelincourt · The Christians Defense Against the Fears of Death · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… tryeth words, as the mouth taſteth meat, Job 34.3. Now, as a good and well temper'dtempered Palate reliſhes good and wholſom Food, which it is ſupplyed withal, ſo a Gracious …
With rule
… tryeth words, as the mouth taſteth meat, Job 34.3. Now, as a good and well temper'dtempered Palate reliſhes good and wholſom Food, which it is ſupplyed withal, ſo a Gracious …
Thomas Horton · One Hundred Select Sermons · p. 224 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Purple Island A00977

Printed
Temper'dTempered with lies, and false philosophie:
With rule
Temper'dTempered with lies, and false philosophie:
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 101 · Open in the reader

Paradise Lost A50919

Printed
Temper'dTempered … Tunings, intermixt with Voice
With rule
Temper'dTempered … Tunings, intermixt with Voice
John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader

Poems A50938

Printed
Temper'dTempered to th' Oaten Flute,
With rule
Temper'dTempered to th' Oaten Flute,
John Milton · Poems · p. 76 · Open in the reader

Sermons Volume 4 A51840

Printed
… much follow the Constitution of the Body, and therefore some are better Natured and Temper'dTempered than others: So that there may be Amiable Qualities in them, and yet without …
With rule
… much follow the Constitution of the Body, and therefore some are better Natured and Temper'dTempered than others: So that there may be Amiable Qualities in them, and yet without …
Thomas Manton · Sermons Volume 4 · p. 323 · Open in the reader

Poems 2 A89149

Printed
Temper'dTempered to th'Oaten Flute,
With rule
Temper'dTempered to th'Oaten Flute,
John Milton · Poems 2 · p. 58 · Open in the reader

Two Treatises A96524

Printed
… well temper'dtempered, and regular Zeal, which (as Luther uſed to ſay) When it's well Temper'dTempered, it's the beſt gift of God. Here's a Critical Diſtinction of Zeal (which is …
With rule
… well temper'dtempered, and regular Zeal, which (as Luther uſed to ſay) When it's well Temper'dTempered, it's the beſt gift of God. Here's a Critical Diſtinction of Zeal (which is …
Dean Henry Wilkinson · Two Treatises · p. 87 · Open in the reader