Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9557 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

restrain'drestrained

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

Puritas changed it: 324 times in 203 works
Consistency: 97.5% (324 of 332)
Reach if approved: ~349 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: restrained
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 332 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (324 changes in 203 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 324)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the Law onely prohibiting, but not quelling sin in me; the more it was restrain'drestrained, the more it wrought all manner of concupiscence in me, especially since there was …
With rule
… the Law onely prohibiting, but not quelling sin in me; the more it was restrain'drestrained, the more it wrought all manner of concupiscence in me, especially since there was …
Richard Allestree · Forty Sermons · p. 134 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Body. In the sorrows of Repentance it supplies tears, in Fastings its appetites are restrain'drestrained, in Thanksgivings the tongue breaks forth into the joyful praises of God. All the …
With rule
… Body. In the sorrows of Repentance it supplies tears, in Fastings its appetites are restrain'drestrained, in Thanksgivings the tongue breaks forth into the joyful praises of God. All the …
William Bates · A Funeral Sermon for Thomas Manton · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
Canſt guide us beſt, for ſleepy we reſtrain'drestrained
With rule
Canſt guide us beſt, for ſleepy we reſtrain'drestrained
Thomas Beverley · An Exposition of the Song of Songs · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… an unexpected judgement fell upon it, for God withheld the ſhowers of rain and reſtrain'drestrained the influence of heaven, and cauſed that it ſhould not rain upon the earth …
With rule
… an unexpected judgement fell upon it, for God withheld the ſhowers of rain and reſtrain'drestrained the influence of heaven, and cauſed that it ſhould not rain upon the earth …
Edward Bury · The Husbandmans Companion · p. 105 · Open in the reader
Printed
… will be glad to catch at. Our Saviours prohibition of idle words, hath been restrain'drestrained to malicious reproaches of Religion, and the means to confirm it; whereby some may …
With rule
… will be glad to catch at. Our Saviours prohibition of idle words, hath been restrain'drestrained to malicious reproaches of Religion, and the means to confirm it; whereby some may …
Timothy Cruso · The Duty and Blessing of a Tender Conscience · p. 133 · Open in the reader
Printed
… mind unto. Now that which could persuade men to be thus tied up and restrain'drestrained, must needs appear to them very reasonable in it self, otherwise they would never …
With rule
… mind unto. Now that which could persuade men to be thus tied up and restrain'drestrained, must needs appear to them very reasonable in it self, otherwise they would never …
Clement Ellis · The Folly of Atheism Demonstrated · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… limited in their Meetings to fours or fives; and yet they ought to be reſtrain'drestrained from Seditious Practices as well as others; and we do by as good Right …
With rule
… limited in their Meetings to fours or fives; and yet they ought to be reſtrain'drestrained from Seditious Practices as well as others; and we do by as good Right …
Thomas Grantham · The Loyal Baptist · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
Two falling out, would fight, but are restrain'drestrained:
With rule
Two falling out, would fight, but are restrain'drestrained:
George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

Printed
… all at once (as the Red Sea did to drown the Egyptians) but, being Reſtrain'dRestrained by the power of God, abated by little and little and brought to their …
With rule
… all at once (as the Red Sea did to drown the Egyptians) but, being Reſtrain'dRestrained by the power of God, abated by little and little and brought to their …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 13 · Open in the reader