Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9632 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

endur'dendured

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

Puritas changed it: 160 times in 102 works
Consistency: 94.6% (160 of 169)
Reach if approved: ~178 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: endured
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 169 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (160 changes in 102 works, 94.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 160)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… a Cauſe, if I had enjoyed ſuch a meaſure of health, as would have endur'dendured the fatigue of writing. And being but yet weak in Body, I am forced …
With rule
… a Cauſe, if I had enjoyed ſuch a meaſure of health, as would have endur'dendured the fatigue of writing. And being but yet weak in Body, I am forced …
John Milton · Defense of the People of England · p. i · Open in the reader
Printed
… out, leſt you wander in a wrong way, and be forc'd, after you have endur'dendured much hard labour, to return back again. I queſtion not but you will, by …
With rule
… out, leſt you wander in a wrong way, and be forc'd, after you have endur'dendured much hard labour, to return back again. I queſtion not but you will, by …
Timothy Rogers · Early Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… eſcape under the Goſpel? Sirs, it hath been for your ſakes, that we have endur'dendured the contradictions of men; have been ejected, deprived, baniſhed, impriſon'd reviled, &c. and wherein …
With rule
… eſcape under the Goſpel? Sirs, it hath been for your ſakes, that we have endur'dendured the contradictions of men; have been ejected, deprived, baniſhed, impriſon'd reviled, &c. and wherein …
Samuel Stodden · The Pastors Charge and the Peoples Duty · p. 152 · Open in the reader
Printed
Barrenneſſe under meanes not endur'dendured by God, page 254.
With rule
Barrenneſſe under meanes not endur'dendured by God, page 254.
Richard Sibbes · The Returning Backslider · Open in the reader
Printed
… at a Blow, their Love and courage had not been so admirable: but they endur'dendured torments so various and terrible, that had they not been practis'd upon them by …
With rule
… at a Blow, their Love and courage had not been so admirable: but they endur'dendured torments so various and terrible, that had they not been practis'd upon them by …
William Bates · The Harmony of the Divine Attributes in Mans Redemption · p. 449 · Open in the reader
Printed
But as for them, their time should have endur'dendured for evermore.
With rule
But as for them, their time should have endur'dendured for evermore.
Zacharie Boyd · The Psalms of David in Meter with the Prose Interlined · Open in the reader
Printed
… Act. 14.2, at Lyſtra, Act. 14.19: I ſay, thou haſt ſeen what great perſecutions I have endur'dendured, yet out of them all the Lord hath delivered me. And therefore be not …
With rule
… Act. 14.2, at Lyſtra, Act. 14.19: I ſay, thou haſt ſeen what great perſecutions I have endur'dendured, yet out of them all the Lord hath delivered me. And therefore be not …
Samuel Cradock · The Apostolical History · p. 431 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we do well to be angry, for it is not a thing to be endur'dendured; not to be endur'dendured! O think how much God bears with the Contempt and …
With rule
… we do well to be angry, for it is not a thing to be endur'dendured; not to be endur'dendured! O think how much God bears with the Contempt and …
Matthew Henry · Meekness and Quietness of Spirit · p. 29 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

2 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
Endur'dEndured the fury of the ardent flame;
With rule
Endur'dEndured the fury of the ardent flame;
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 174 · Open in the reader

Meat out of the Eater N00104

Printed
Endur'dEndured the Cross, despis'd the shame,
With rule
Endur'dEndured the Cross, despis'd the shame,
Michael Wigglesworth · Meat out of the Eater · p. 204 · Open in the reader