Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9635 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

foil'dfoiled

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

Puritas changed it: 111 times in 83 works
Consistency: 98.2% (111 of 113)
Reach if approved: ~119 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: foiled
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 113 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (111 changes in 83 works, 98.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 111)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… utmoſt Heaven they could or car'd to imagine; and therefore the Sadduces ſo often foil'dfoiled and buffled them with that Argument of the Woman and her ſeven Husbands, which …
With rule
… utmoſt Heaven they could or car'd to imagine; and therefore the Sadduces ſo often foil'dfoiled and buffled them with that Argument of the Woman and her ſeven Husbands, which …
Thomas Gregory · Discourses Upon Several Divine Subjects · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
… speaks here of Scandals. If Lust be not mortified, it grows outragious; it has foil'dfoiled us before God, Men and Angels, and exposed us to an open Shame, or …
With rule
… speaks here of Scandals. If Lust be not mortified, it grows outragious; it has foil'dfoiled us before God, Men and Angels, and exposed us to an open Shame, or …
Thomas Manton · Sermons · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it will by degrees so decay and abate, that at last it will be foil'dfoiled and baffled by every Temptation that encounters it. This therefore is one Part of …
With rule
… it will by degrees so decay and abate, that at last it will be foil'dfoiled and baffled by every Temptation that encounters it. This therefore is one Part of …
John Scott · The Christian Life Part 3 Volume 4 · p. 288 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and encounter the Temptations of it; and how often, and how eaſily are they foil'dfoiled and baffl'd by them.
With rule
… and encounter the Temptations of it; and how often, and how eaſily are they foil'dfoiled and baffl'd by them.
John Tillotson · Sermons and Discourses Volume 5 · p. 461 · Open in the reader
Printed
… have non-suited, and have made them to let fall such a cause, so foil'dfoiled and blasted; and that malice it selfe would henceforward never have recruited any more …
With rule
… have non-suited, and have made them to let fall such a cause, so foil'dfoiled and blasted; and that malice it selfe would henceforward never have recruited any more …
Charles Herle · Davids Reserve and Rescue · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
By weaknesse self his strength is foil'dfoiled and overlay'd.
With rule
By weaknesse self his strength is foil'dfoiled and overlay'd.
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Sin in its Infancy can make such Resistance, that the Spirit of Grace is foil'dfoiled in his Motions to rescue the Soul from its Bondage, how much more when …
With rule
… Sin in its Infancy can make such Resistance, that the Spirit of Grace is foil'dfoiled in his Motions to rescue the Soul from its Bondage, how much more when …
William Bates · The Four Last Things · p. 93 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wit, the Benjamites] not the firſt day, nor the ſecond day, but they were foil'dfoiled twice: Though I know others do give other Interpretations of this word, yet this …
With rule
… wit, the Benjamites] not the firſt day, nor the ſecond day, but they were foil'dfoiled twice: Though I know others do give other Interpretations of this word, yet this …
Jeremiah Burroughs · An Exposition of Hosea 8-10 · p. 422 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

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

A Complete and Compendious Church History A52804

Printed
… all by and under the Dragon, Revel. 13. 3. Chriſt (indeed) fought with the Dragon and Foil'dFoiled him, Ch. 12. whereupon he Reſigns his Throne and Power to the Beaſt, (which did …
With rule
… all by and under the Dragon, Revel. 13. 3. Chriſt (indeed) fought with the Dragon and Foil'dFoiled him, Ch. 12. whereupon he Reſigns his Throne and Power to the Beaſt, (which did …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 502 · Open in the reader