Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9590 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

embrac'dembraced

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

Puritas changed it: 162 times in 122 works
Consistency: 94.1% (162 of 172)
Reach if approved: ~181 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: embraced
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 172 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (162 changes in 122 works, 94.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 162)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… you caſt my words behind your back, when the very Clouds have taken up, embrac'dembraced, and fulfilled them? The Clouds will be a ſwift witneſs againſt all thoſe that …
With rule
… you caſt my words behind your back, when the very Clouds have taken up, embrac'dembraced, and fulfilled them? The Clouds will be a ſwift witneſs againſt all thoſe that …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 35-37 · p. 512 · Open in the reader
Printed
… renounce the faith. And ſo Demas, 2 Tim. 4.10. Demas hath forſaken me, ſaith Paul, and embrac'dembraced the preſent world. What forſake Paul that great Apoſtle, brought up at the feet …
With rule
… renounce the faith. And ſo Demas, 2 Tim. 4.10. Demas hath forſaken me, ſaith Paul, and embrac'dembraced the preſent world. What forſake Paul that great Apoſtle, brought up at the feet …
William Greenhill · The Sound-Hearted Christian · p. 278 · Open in the reader
Printed
… varying from the words (for that, above any, when it can, is to be embrac'dembraced) it is ſufficient (I count) in point of Conſcience, for his Aſſent to the …
With rule
… varying from the words (for that, above any, when it can, is to be embrac'dembraced) it is ſufficient (I count) in point of Conſcience, for his Aſſent to the …
John Humfrey · The Two Steps of a Non-Conformist · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
There are ſeveral other things that muſt be practiſed; if the Apocriphal Books be embrac'dembraced as the Rule of manners, unto which the Diſſenters cannot conform. But deſigning to …
With rule
There are ſeveral other things that muſt be practiſed; if the Apocriphal Books be embrac'dembraced as the Rule of manners, unto which the Diſſenters cannot conform. But deſigning to …
Stephen Lobb · The Harmony Between the Old and Present Non-Conformists · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Acts of God, withering thoſe armes, which were reached forth againſt the hands, which embrac'dembraced him in his ſwadling clothes (as the old Father ſpeaks to his Andronicus) and …
With rule
… Acts of God, withering thoſe armes, which were reached forth againſt the hands, which embrac'dembraced him in his ſwadling clothes (as the old Father ſpeaks to his Andronicus) and …
Hezekiah Woodward · A Childs Patrimony · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… turn'd Arians, and Alciatus a Mahometan; and others (as their wild Fancies led them) embrac'dembraced more monstrous and extravagant Opinions. And thus having disturb'd the Peace of the Church …
With rule
… turn'd Arians, and Alciatus a Mahometan; and others (as their wild Fancies led them) embrac'dembraced more monstrous and extravagant Opinions. And thus having disturb'd the Peace of the Church …
Benedictus Aretius · Valentinus Gentilis – The Tritheist Put to Death In Bern · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a great Tranſpoſe of Things; Many poor Perſons, that have feared God, and yet embrac'dembraced Dunghils, who have been forc'd to lye on the Earth, in the Duſt, and …
With rule
… a great Tranſpoſe of Things; Many poor Perſons, that have feared God, and yet embrac'dembraced Dunghils, who have been forc'd to lye on the Earth, in the Duſt, and …
Thomas Beverley · Evangelical Repentance Unto Salvation · p. 127 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the food it ſelf. When the word is propoſed to two perſons, 'tis embrac'dembraced by the one, rejected by the other; is it from the word it ſelf …
With rule
… in the food it ſelf. When the word is propoſed to two perſons, 'tis embrac'dembraced by the one, rejected by the other; is it from the word it ſelf …
Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 534 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

3 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 Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions A28159

Printed
Embrac'dEmbraced grace firſt, retain'd not all this while
With rule
Embrac'dEmbraced grace firſt, retain'd not all this while
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 162 · Open in the reader

Spiritual Melody A47611

Printed
Embrac'dEmbraced are from above.
With rule
Embrac'dEmbraced are from above.
Benjamin Keach · Spiritual Melody · p. 31 · Open in the reader

Practical Commentary of 1 Peter Volume 1 A47642

Printed
… the Love of it, and that Christ preach'd be Entertain'd in the soul, and Embrac'dEmbraced by Faith, and Love.
With rule
… the Love of it, and that Christ preach'd be Entertain'd in the soul, and Embrac'dEmbraced by Faith, and Love.
Robert Leighton · Practical Commentary of 1 Peter Volume 1 · p. 99 · Open in the reader