Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9625 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

confus'dconfused

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

Puritas changed it: 120 times in 68 works
Consistency: 94.4% (120 of 127)
Reach if approved: ~133 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: confused
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 127 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (120 changes in 68 works, 94.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 120)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Veſſels of Gold and Silver, and thoſe of Wood and Earth; and in this confus'dconfused notion, the Church is the Field, the Floor, the Net, and the Houſe that …
With rule
… Veſſels of Gold and Silver, and thoſe of Wood and Earth; and in this confus'dconfused notion, the Church is the Field, the Floor, the Net, and the Houſe that …
Jean Claude · Historical Defense of the Reformation · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in his own body on the tree &c. Our Saviour did not aſſume a confus'dconfused indigeſted and unſhapen maſs or lump of fleſh (that was not his incarnation), but …
With rule
… in his own body on the tree &c. Our Saviour did not aſſume a confus'dconfused indigeſted and unſhapen maſs or lump of fleſh (that was not his incarnation), but …
Thomas Jacombe · Sermons Preached on Romans 8 · p. 381 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Spaniards, for ſome years laſt paſt, have fill'd all theſe places with the confus'dconfused and blended havock of Fire and Sword? To which unfortunate Pile of Miſeries, if …
With rule
… the Spaniards, for ſome years laſt paſt, have fill'd all theſe places with the confus'dconfused and blended havock of Fire and Sword? To which unfortunate Pile of Miſeries, if …
John Milton · Letters of State · p. 239 · Open in the reader
Printed
III. That T. W's Hypotheſis and Notions of Schiſm are very Erroneous and confus'dconfused — I confeſs 'tis pretty difficult to gather his meaning in this caſe, and I …
With rule
III. That T. W's Hypotheſis and Notions of Schiſm are very Erroneous and confus'dconfused — I confeſs 'tis pretty difficult to gather his meaning in this caſe, and I …
William Tong · Vindication of Brief Inquiry into the Nature of Schism · p. 84 · Open in the reader
Printed
Will force me to a confus'dconfused brevity;
With rule
Will force me to a confus'dconfused brevity;
Anne Bradstreet · The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America · p. 174 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God is become even like one of vs, an arraign'd an accus'd, a seemingly confus'dconfused Malefactor.
With rule
… God is become even like one of vs, an arraign'd an accus'd, a seemingly confus'dconfused Malefactor.
Charles Herle · Contemplations and Devotions · p. 138 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not upon what to fasten his next wish; yet even then he has some confus'dconfused unform'd appetites, and thinks himself miserable because he cannot tell what would make him …
With rule
… not upon what to fasten his next wish; yet even then he has some confus'dconfused unform'd appetites, and thinks himself miserable because he cannot tell what would make him …
Richard Allestree · The Art of Contentment · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
Sentence confus'dconfused! he them as harmleſs tenders,
With rule
Sentence confus'dconfused! he them as harmleſs tenders,
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 25 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Echos from the Sixth Trumpet A66752

Printed
Confus'dConfused enough, that order to beget
With rule
Confus'dConfused enough, that order to beget
George Wither · Echos from the Sixth Trumpet · p. 67 · Open in the reader