Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9576 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sanctify'dsanctified

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

Puritas changed it: 101 times in 49 works
Consistency: 72.6% (101 of 139)
Reach if approved: ~146 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sanctified
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 139 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (101 changes in 49 works, 72.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 101)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Now their Afflictions being ſanctify'dsanctified to 'em, they ſerv'd to their Eſtabliſhment and Growth in Grace: which made them …
With rule
Now their Afflictions being ſanctify'dsanctified to 'em, they ſerv'd to their Eſtabliſhment and Growth in Grace: which made them …
Thomas Foxcroft · Observations Historical and Practical on the Rise of New England · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Advantages, it lies in their being Divine Appointments, and wiſely adapted Means, own'd and ſanctify'dsanctified of God, to ſubſerve the bleſſed Purpoſes of his Grace, in regard to the …
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… Advantages, it lies in their being Divine Appointments, and wiſely adapted Means, own'd and ſanctify'dsanctified of God, to ſubſerve the bleſſed Purpoſes of his Grace, in regard to the …
Thomas Foxcroft · Some Seasonable Thoughts on Evangelic Preaching · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Hearts, and committing our Souls into his Hands, to be waſhed with his Blood, ſanctify'dsanctified by his Spirit, juſtify'd in his Name, and preſerved to his heavenly Kingdom. The …
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… Hearts, and committing our Souls into his Hands, to be waſhed with his Blood, ſanctify'dsanctified by his Spirit, juſtify'd in his Name, and preſerved to his heavenly Kingdom. The …
Thomas Foxcroft · Like Precious Faith Obtained through the Righteousness of our God · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it is the Truth according to Godliness, and by which we are to be sanctify'dsanctified, and begotten more and more (as of an Immortal Seed) into the Divine Likeness …
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… it is the Truth according to Godliness, and by which we are to be sanctify'dsanctified, and begotten more and more (as of an Immortal Seed) into the Divine Likeness …
John Howe · The Carnality of Religious Contention · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thus we do while we answer not their proper end, and are not inwardly sanctify'dsanctified by them, we have no other Word, nor other Sacraments to recommend to you …
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… thus we do while we answer not their proper end, and are not inwardly sanctify'dsanctified by them, we have no other Word, nor other Sacraments to recommend to you …
Robert Leighton · Practical Commentary of 1 Peter Volume 2 · p. 240 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the more enraged againſt godlineſs thereby; but the Apoſtle does not ſay, ſhall be ſanctify'dsanctified, as of a thing uncertain, but is ſanctifi'd, as of a thing paſt: thence …
With rule
… the more enraged againſt godlineſs thereby; but the Apoſtle does not ſay, ſhall be ſanctify'dsanctified, as of a thing uncertain, but is ſanctifi'd, as of a thing paſt: thence …
William Strong · A Discourse of the Two Covenants · p. 214 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Accordingly he deſir'd his Friends to ſhew their Love in praying for a progreſſive ſanctify'dsanctified Improvement of his Sufferings, and not for their Removal, and wiſh't 'em comfortably to …
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… Accordingly he deſir'd his Friends to ſhew their Love in praying for a progreſſive ſanctify'dsanctified Improvement of his Sufferings, and not for their Removal, and wiſh't 'em comfortably to …
Edmund Trench · The Life and Death of Reverend Edmund Trench · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of: and yet of ſuch is the Kingdom of Heaven. Multitudes of them are ſanctify'dsanctified and juſtify'd, and taken to Heaven. In ſome proportion it is thus with him …
With rule
… of: and yet of ſuch is the Kingdom of Heaven. Multitudes of them are ſanctify'dsanctified and juſtify'd, and taken to Heaven. In ſome proportion it is thus with him …
Benjamin Colman · Divine Providence in the Early Death of Pious and Lovely Children · p. 19 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (38)

11 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 27 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
… Worth, both for Wiſdom and Valour) ſo was not call'd unto the Feaſt, nor Sanctify'dSanctified among his other Brethren for it.
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… Worth, both for Wiſdom and Valour) ſo was not call'd unto the Feaſt, nor Sanctify'dSanctified among his other Brethren for it.
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 262 · Open in the reader
Printed
Mark 3. He put the Prieſts and Levites (when Sanctify'dSanctified) upon the Purgation of the Temple, 2 Chron. 29. ver. 12, to 19. They brought forth all Ʋncleanneſs …
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Mark 3. He put the Prieſts and Levites (when Sanctify'dSanctified) upon the Purgation of the Temple, 2 Chron. 29. ver. 12, to 19. They brought forth all Ʋncleanneſs …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 595 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his hard-hearted Country-men, preſſing them to Repentance, Prayer, Patience, together with a Sanctify'dSanctified uſe of all their Sufferings, and a confident expectation of a moſt happy Iſſue …
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… his hard-hearted Country-men, preſſing them to Repentance, Prayer, Patience, together with a Sanctify'dSanctified uſe of all their Sufferings, and a confident expectation of a moſt happy Iſſue …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 633 · Open in the reader

Little Flocks Guarded Against Grievous Wolves B09463

Printed
… can be Justify'd; and (as Keith also elsewhere expresses it) He who is imperfectly Sanctify'dSanctified, cannot, while such, be perfectly Justify'd; and so it seems there is not one …
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… can be Justify'd; and (as Keith also elsewhere expresses it) He who is imperfectly Sanctify'dSanctified, cannot, while such, be perfectly Justify'd; and so it seems there is not one …
Cotton Mather · Little Flocks Guarded Against Grievous Wolves · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his work. Ask them, whether all that the Apostles Baptised, were certainly and inwardly Sanctify'dSanctified? Remember them, that Simon Magus was one of them; and is he a Saint …
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… his work. Ask them, whether all that the Apostles Baptised, were certainly and inwardly Sanctify'dSanctified? Remember them, that Simon Magus was one of them; and is he a Saint …
Cotton Mather · Little Flocks Guarded Against Grievous Wolves · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bear no other sense. Nor is it a tolerable Interpretation, to say, That God Sanctify'dSanctified such a Day, by only determining, that the little people of the Jews, between …
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… bear no other sense. Nor is it a tolerable Interpretation, to say, That God Sanctify'dSanctified such a Day, by only determining, that the little people of the Jews, between …
Cotton Mather · Little Flocks Guarded Against Grievous Wolves · p. 89 · Open in the reader

The Government and Improvement of Mirth N01083

Printed
… on Inſtruments, and in his Pſalms and by his Harp Poetry & Muſick were both Sanctify'dSanctified and Perfected.
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… on Inſtruments, and in his Pſalms and by his Harp Poetry & Muſick were both Sanctify'dSanctified and Perfected.
Benjamin Colman · The Government and Improvement of Mirth · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Seaſons for their Swelling Tides: the Capacious, the Exalted, the Refined Spirit of Man Sanctify'dSanctified cannot fully Conceive of, and much leſs ſpeak its own Spiritual Taſts.
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… Seaſons for their Swelling Tides: the Capacious, the Exalted, the Refined Spirit of Man Sanctify'dSanctified cannot fully Conceive of, and much leſs ſpeak its own Spiritual Taſts.
Benjamin Colman · The Government and Improvement of Mirth · p. 102 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in their higheſt Exaltation. 'Tis the top of Devotion; the Soul whom God has Sanctify'dSanctified rais'd in Meditation, Self-Examination, Prayer and Praiſe. A Heavenly Enjoyment truly, and the …
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… in their higheſt Exaltation. 'Tis the top of Devotion; the Soul whom God has Sanctify'dSanctified rais'd in Meditation, Self-Examination, Prayer and Praiſe. A Heavenly Enjoyment truly, and the …
Benjamin Colman · The Government and Improvement of Mirth · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they be Exalted. The Law is Holy, and therefore pleaſant to them that are Sanctify'dSanctified both in the Contemplation of it, and in the the Practice. The Statutes of …
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… they be Exalted. The Law is Holy, and therefore pleaſant to them that are Sanctify'dSanctified both in the Contemplation of it, and in the the Practice. The Statutes of …
Benjamin Colman · The Government and Improvement of Mirth · p. 133 · Open in the reader

Funeral Sermon for Elizabeth Foxcroft N01872

Printed
Her Parent's Darling's Sanctify'dSanctified;
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Her Parent's Darling's Sanctify'dSanctified;
Thomas Foxcroft · Funeral Sermon for Elizabeth Foxcroft · p. 53 · Open in the reader