Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9617 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

alter'daltered

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

Puritas changed it: 298 times in 187 works
Consistency: 99.6% (298 of 299)
Reach if approved: ~314 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: altered
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 299 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (298 changes in 187 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 298)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… rich to the world but are not rich to God. The caſe is ſtrangely alter'daltered with them, over what it was here. When the wicked ſpring as the graſſe …
With rule
… rich to the world but are not rich to God. The caſe is ſtrangely alter'daltered with them, over what it was here. When the wicked ſpring as the graſſe …
Thomas Horton · The Unrighteous Mammon Exchanged for the True Riches · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… And conſequently his ſeparation thereby becoming ſinful, proves Schiſm: But if the Scene be alter'daltered, and thoſe ſeparate Aſſemblies made legal; the Schiſm in reference to the national upon …
With rule
… And conſequently his ſeparation thereby becoming ſinful, proves Schiſm: But if the Scene be alter'daltered, and thoſe ſeparate Aſſemblies made legal; the Schiſm in reference to the national upon …
John Humfrey · The Peaceable Design · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
And sudden alter'daltered his first kinde of fight,
With rule
And sudden alter'daltered his first kinde of fight,
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 162 · Open in the reader
Printed
… speaking thus unto us,— Hen quantum mutatus ab illo! Alas, how hath this fit alter'daltered you from what you were in your health! for how are your lips grown …
With rule
… speaking thus unto us,— Hen quantum mutatus ab illo! Alas, how hath this fit alter'daltered you from what you were in your health! for how are your lips grown …
Richard Allestree · The Vanity of the Creature · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Contents and Paper Combates about Hierarchy, Liturgies, Ceremonies, viz. what ſhould be abated or alter'daltered, are even Ridiculous Things before it.
With rule
… Contents and Paper Combates about Hierarchy, Liturgies, Ceremonies, viz. what ſhould be abated or alter'daltered, are even Ridiculous Things before it.
Thomas Beverley · The Pattern of the Divine Temple Sanctuary · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he requires of us; and therefore, though this Will of his Precept should be alter'daltered and chang'd a thousand times, yet it argues not any Change in God. But …
With rule
… he requires of us; and therefore, though this Will of his Precept should be alter'daltered and chang'd a thousand times, yet it argues not any Change in God. But …
John Conant · Sermons Preached on Several Occasions Volume 2 · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
Till when my alter'daltered Calender shall b…
With rule
Till when my alter'daltered Calender shall b…
Clement Ellis · An Elegy on the Death of George Pitt · Open in the reader
Printed
… worthy Perſons (who were as firmly reſolv'd that the old Goſpel ſhould not be alter'daltered, as we Engliſh are zealous that our old Fundamental Laws be not chang'd) preſently …
With rule
… worthy Perſons (who were as firmly reſolv'd that the old Goſpel ſhould not be alter'daltered, as we Engliſh are zealous that our old Fundamental Laws be not chang'd) preſently …
Thomas Goodwin · The True Nature of the Gospel · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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 Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

Printed
… words in Hanian's Decree, Chap. 3.13. that all Men might know the King's Mind was Alter'dAltered in giving Mordecai as large a Commiſſion to ſave the Jews, as ever Haman's …
With rule
… words in Hanian's Decree, Chap. 3.13. that all Men might know the King's Mind was Alter'dAltered in giving Mordecai as large a Commiſſion to ſave the Jews, as ever Haman's …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 686 · Open in the reader