Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9629 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

deriv'dderived

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

Puritas changed it: 263 times in 124 works
Consistency: 95.9% (263 of 274)
Reach if approved: ~288 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: derived
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 274 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (263 changes in 124 works, 95.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 263)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
That rather Greece from us these Arts deriv'dderived;
With rule
That rather Greece from us these Arts deriv'dderived;
John Milton · Paradise Regained · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of half the estate David had given him, yet upon a reflexion that he deriv'dderived it all from his good plesure, disputed not the sentence, but cherefully resign'd the …
With rule
… of half the estate David had given him, yet upon a reflexion that he deriv'dderived it all from his good plesure, disputed not the sentence, but cherefully resign'd the …
Richard Allestree · The Art of Contentment · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… They are led by vain respects to their Progenitors from whom their Religion is deriv'dderived; and what they receive at first without discerning, they never distrust; As if the …
With rule
… They are led by vain respects to their Progenitors from whom their Religion is deriv'dderived; and what they receive at first without discerning, they never distrust; As if the …
William Bates · The Divinity of the Christian Religion · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Saints, of Martyrs, as in Honour of God, and of Chriſt, and ſo deriv'dderived on Images; And whoever does not worſhip thus, is Anathematiz'd, as Prophane, Sacrilegious, Blaſphemous …
With rule
… of Saints, of Martyrs, as in Honour of God, and of Chriſt, and ſo deriv'dderived on Images; And whoever does not worſhip thus, is Anathematiz'd, as Prophane, Sacrilegious, Blaſphemous …
Thomas Beverley · The Kingdom of Jesus Christ Entering at 1697 · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… from the Order of the Law, ſo the confirming power of the Sacrament is deriv'dderived from the Inſtitution of God. As the Oyl wherewith Kings were anointed, did not …
With rule
… from the Order of the Law, ſo the confirming power of the Sacrament is deriv'dderived from the Inſtitution of God. As the Oyl wherewith Kings were anointed, did not …
Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 640 · Open in the reader
Printed
Nothing in Her was granted, nought deriv'dderived,
With rule
Nothing in Her was granted, nought deriv'dderived,
Simon Ford · A Christians Acquiescence in Divine Providence · p. 205 · Open in the reader
Printed
… only called CANONS or RULES, nor had they any Compulſive Authority, but what was deriv'dderived from the Civil Sanction.
With rule
… only called CANONS or RULES, nor had they any Compulſive Authority, but what was deriv'dderived from the Civil Sanction.
John Humfrey · A Reply to the Defense of Dr Stillingfleet · Open in the reader
Printed
Of Christal Living ſtreams, deriv'dderived from thence:
With rule
Of Christal Living ſtreams, deriv'dderived from thence:
Edward Bagshaw · The Life and Death of Vavasor Powell · p. 197 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

An Exposition of the Lords Prayer A27600

Printed
… God to it is the Trueſt Honour of it. And if we have ſo Deriv'dDerived from it, and Related to it in our Prayers; the Concluſion of our Prayers …
With rule
… God to it is the Trueſt Honour of it. And if we have ſo Deriv'dDerived from it, and Related to it in our Prayers; the Concluſion of our Prayers …
Thomas Beverley · An Exposition of the Lords Prayer · p. 64 · Open in the reader

The Infancy of the World A76717

Printed
Deriv'dDerived of any but of God and me,
With rule
Deriv'dDerived of any but of God and me,
Nicolas Billingsley · The Infancy of the World · p. 73 · Open in the reader