Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9573 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

spar'dspared

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

Puritas changed it: 239 times in 156 works
Consistency: 99.1% (239 of 241)
Reach if approved: ~253 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: spared
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 241 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (239 changes in 156 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 239)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Parable, by murmuring at the good man of the house: Or if Nineveh be spar'dspared, if all be not executed to whom we have denounc'd destruction, we like Ionah …
With rule
… Parable, by murmuring at the good man of the house: Or if Nineveh be spar'dspared, if all be not executed to whom we have denounc'd destruction, we like Ionah …
Richard Allestree · The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety · p. 206 · Open in the reader
Printed
The Blood that Ahab spar'dspared in Benhadad induc'd a deadly Guilt, as that he spilt of Naboth; as God …
With rule
The Blood that Ahab spar'dspared in Benhadad induc'd a deadly Guilt, as that he spilt of Naboth; as God …
William Bates · A Sure Trial of Uprightness · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
Then if the King had ſpar'dspared me, and augmented
With rule
Then if the King had ſpar'dspared me, and augmented
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 74 · Open in the reader
Printed
… doings ſhall they Judge thee. Ezek. 24.13.14. God will ſpare as little then, as he ſpar'dspared much before. His wrath ſhall be as raging upon them, as the Sea of …
With rule
… doings ſhall they Judge thee. Ezek. 24.13.14. God will ſpare as little then, as he ſpar'dspared much before. His wrath ſhall be as raging upon them, as the Sea of …
Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 817 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Blood be in his ſight; ſo precious, that when it is fitter to be ſpar'dspared than ſpilt, he will certainly preſerve it. Though God can kill or keep alive …
With rule
… Blood be in his ſight; ſo precious, that when it is fitter to be ſpar'dspared than ſpilt, he will certainly preſerve it. Though God can kill or keep alive …
Timothy Cruso · Twenty-Four Sermons · p. 328 · Open in the reader
Printed
… serv'd for Authentick Witnesses, and sufficient evidence to disgrace this Church. Nor have they spar'dspared to look upon this whole businesse as an act of divine Retaliation, in turning …
With rule
… serv'd for Authentick Witnesses, and sufficient evidence to disgrace this Church. Nor have they spar'dspared to look upon this whole businesse as an act of divine Retaliation, in turning …
Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… had there been nothing in them more than this, the merciful Creator would have ſpar'dspared the blood of the poor Creatures, and would have pitch'd upon ſome other courſe …
With rule
… had there been nothing in them more than this, the merciful Creator would have ſpar'dspared the blood of the poor Creatures, and would have pitch'd upon ſome other courſe …
Thomas Jacombe · Sermons Preached on Romans 8 · p. 491 · Open in the reader
Printed
And for whose sakes be …o long spar'dspared thee hath.
With rule
And for whose sakes be …o long spar'dspared thee hath.
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · p. 198 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions A28159

Printed
Spar'dSpared not his ſon, but up to death him gave,
With rule
Spar'dSpared not his ſon, but up to death him gave,
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
Spar'dSpared neither rich nor poor, nor ſex, nor age:
With rule
Spar'dSpared neither rich nor poor, nor ſex, nor age:
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 119 · Open in the reader