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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9568 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

herodsherod's

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

Puritas changed it
1,025 times in 462 works
Consistency
99.7% (1,025 of 1,028)
Reach if approved
~1,080 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,028 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,025 changes in 462 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,025)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … by him might liue with God: he ſuffered ſuche euill entreatie at that Foxe HerodsHerod's handes, leaſt we might be a portion for Foxes, and a pray for woolues …
    With rule
    … by him might liue with God: he ſuffered ſuche euill entreatie at that Foxe HerodsHerod's handes, leaſt we might be a portion for Foxes, and a pray for woolues …

    Andrew Kingsmill · A View of Mans Estate · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … him. The wiſe mē did find ye king Chriſt being newly borne, not in HerodsHerod's court, not among the Princes & prieſts, not at Hieruſalem, in ſo noble and famous …
    With rule
    … him. The wiſe mē did find ye king Chriſt being newly borne, not in HerodsHerod's court, not among the Princes & prieſts, not at Hieruſalem, in ſo noble and famous …

    Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … pinching allowance. The Shunamites husband did eaſily give way unto her, ſo did Chuza HerodsHerod's ſteward to his wife Joanna, ſo did the husband deſcribed in the Proverbs to …
    With rule
    … pinching allowance. The Shunamites husband did eaſily give way unto her, ſo did Chuza HerodsHerod's ſteward to his wife Joanna, ſo did the husband deſcribed in the Proverbs to …

    Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 77 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … This coniecture is mentioned by Beza, who yet rather thinketh that the Herodians were HerodsHerod's courtiers, moued thereto by the Syrian translation, which hath debeth Hiraudis, HerodsHerod's domesticals. Thus …
    With rule
    … This coniecture is mentioned by Beza, who yet rather thinketh that the Herodians were HerodsHerod's courtiers, moued thereto by the Syrian translation, which hath debeth Hiraudis, HerodsHerod's domesticals. Thus …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 128 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ſorrow and repentance. It is a true ſaying; Raſhneſſe doth nothing well, as in HerodsHerod's raſh promiſe and oath is to be ſeene. The like had Dauid done, if …
    With rule
    … ſorrow and repentance. It is a true ſaying; Raſhneſſe doth nothing well, as in HerodsHerod's raſh promiſe and oath is to be ſeene. The like had Dauid done, if …

    Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 575 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … could be from an earthly bondage. So in the beginning of the 33. yeere of HerodsHerod's reigne, was Ieſus borne. After ſixe yeeres lawfull reigne, Herod died miſerably: After whom …
    With rule
    … could be from an earthly bondage. So in the beginning of the 33. yeere of HerodsHerod's reigne, was Ieſus borne. After ſixe yeeres lawfull reigne, Herod died miſerably: After whom …

    Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … traditions of Corban, and the other of the gold of the temple &c. by HerodsHerod's great expectation, and questioning with him of many things, Luke chap. 23. verse 9. by Sadduces …
    With rule
    … traditions of Corban, and the other of the gold of the temple &c. by HerodsHerod's great expectation, and questioning with him of many things, Luke chap. 23. verse 9. by Sadduces …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 750 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … or the Prophets from Ierob…, or the Israelites from Ham…s malice, Peter from HerodsHerod's crueltie, or our Sauiour Christ (for a time) from the conspiracie of the chiefe …
    With rule
    … or the Prophets from Ierob…, or the Israelites from Ham…s malice, Peter from HerodsHerod's crueltie, or our Sauiour Christ (for a time) from the conspiracie of the chiefe …

    Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 82 · 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 Harmony Chronicle and Order of the New Testament A48434

  • Printed
    CHRIST. XLIV CLAVDIVS. IV HERODSHEROD'S death was in the beginning of this year, the fourth of Claudius or neer …
    With rule
    CHRIST. XLIV CLAVDIVS. IV HERODSHEROD'S death was in the beginning of this year, the fourth of Claudius or neer …

    John Lightfoot · The Harmony Chronicle and Order of the New Testament · p. 96 · Open in the reader