Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9563 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

deserv'ddeserved

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

Puritas changed it: 390 times in 213 works
Consistency: 97.9% (390 of 398)
Reach if approved: ~418 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: deserved
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 398 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (390 changes in 213 works, 97.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 390)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… would unsheath it, if God do not interpose to hinder, and well we have deserv'ddeserved he should. But if we would endeavour to engage him by Repentance, that will …
With rule
… would unsheath it, if God do not interpose to hinder, and well we have deserv'ddeserved he should. But if we would endeavour to engage him by Repentance, that will …
Richard Allestree · Forty Sermons · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
That could not weep when I deſerv'ddeserved to dye.
With rule
That could not weep when I deſerv'ddeserved to dye.
Richard Baxter · Poetical Fragments · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was it becauſe we deſerv'ddeserved it, or not? If it was not becauſe we deſerv'ddeserved if, it was not in our ſtead; we ſay not that it was in …
With rule
… was it becauſe we deſerv'ddeserved it, or not? If it was not becauſe we deſerv'ddeserved if, it was not in our ſtead; we ſay not that it was in …
Isaac Chauncy · A Fresh Antidote Against Neonomian Bane · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… diſobedience) as b…aſs, and the Ea…th as iron; but we have not deſerv'ddeserved that the Heavens ſhould drop fatneſs, and the Earth yeild her increaſe; this is …
With rule
… diſobedience) as b…aſs, and the Ea…th as iron; but we have not deſerv'ddeserved that the Heavens ſhould drop fatneſs, and the Earth yeild her increaſe; this is …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 35-37 · p. 520 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Interess, especially when the times afforded any whose names in some of those respects deserv'ddeserved to be retain'd in everlasting remembrance.
With rule
… Interess, especially when the times afforded any whose names in some of those respects deserv'ddeserved to be retain'd in everlasting remembrance.
Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſo that I cannot dwell long upon one thing; but this I add; who deſerv'ddeserved theſe joyful news before the Prieſts in the Temple, and the Shepherds in the …
With rule
… ſo that I cannot dwell long upon one thing; but this I add; who deſerv'ddeserved theſe joyful news before the Prieſts in the Temple, and the Shepherds in the …
John Hacket · A Century of Sermons · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… such a people, do understand it (at sometimes more especially) a thing very highly deserv'ddeserved, that God should abhor and reject them.
With rule
… such a people, do understand it (at sometimes more especially) a thing very highly deserv'ddeserved, that God should abhor and reject them.
John Howe · The Right Use of The Name of God in Prayer · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
Nor ere ſaw woman that I thought deſerv'ddeserved
With rule
Nor ere ſaw woman that I thought deſerv'ddeserved
William Gouge · The Saints Sacrifice · 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.

Britains Remembrancer A15627

Printed
Deserv'dDeserved it; and nought else …ut penitence
With rule
Deserv'dDeserved it; and nought else …ut penitence
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · p. 228 · Open in the reader