Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9644 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

labour'dlabor'd

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

Puritas changed it: 271 times in 187 works
Consistency: 100% (271 of 271)
Reach if approved: ~285 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: laboured
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 271 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (271 changes in 187 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 271)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
He labour'dlabor'd much with no ſmall jeopardy,
With rule
He labour'dlabor'd much with no ſmall jeopardy,
John Griffith · Some Prison Meditations · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… went both to One Service: Truth did his Maſter's Work in good earneſt: Intereſt labour'dlabor'd only to pleaſe. The Maſter finding his Buſin…ſs done, and not regarding by …
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… went both to One Service: Truth did his Maſter's Work in good earneſt: Intereſt labour'dlabor'd only to pleaſe. The Maſter finding his Buſin…ſs done, and not regarding by …
John Humfrey · The Axe Laid to the Root of Separation · Open in the reader
Printed
Have labour'dlabor'd, thee and thine to ruinate.
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Have labour'dlabor'd, thee and thine to ruinate.
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · Open in the reader
Printed
… be call'd idle, and vagrant Beggers, yet shee euer look't first, vpon them, who labour'dlabor'd, and whose labours could not ouercome the difficulties, nor bring in the necessities of …
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… be call'd idle, and vagrant Beggers, yet shee euer look't first, vpon them, who labour'dlabor'd, and whose labours could not ouercome the difficulties, nor bring in the necessities of …
John Donne · Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers Late Wife · p. 147 · Open in the reader
Printed
… This testimony is given of Ep… phras, a Servant of Christ, That he always labour'dlabor'd fervently in Prayer, that the Colossians might be perfect and compleat in all the …
With rule
… This testimony is given of Ep… phras, a Servant of Christ, That he always labour'dlabor'd fervently in Prayer, that the Colossians might be perfect and compleat in all the …
William Bates · Spiritual Perfection Unfolded and Enforced from 2 Corinthians 7:1 · p. 403 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a recompence than hee that came in at the eleventh hour, and ſo had labour'dlabor'd but one hour in the vineyard, and bore but little, if any, of the …
With rule
… a recompence than hee that came in at the eleventh hour, and ſo had labour'dlabor'd but one hour in the vineyard, and bore but little, if any, of the …
Thomas Brooks · The Crown and Glory of Christianity · p. 566 · Open in the reader
Printed
Should be labour'dlabor'd after, Pag. 563, 564
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Should be labour'dlabor'd after, Pag. 563, 564
Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · Open in the reader
Printed
… Prophet Iſaiah did once, thou ſhouldeſt be forced at laſt to confeſs, I have labour'dlabor'd in vain, I have employed my ſtrength for nought, Iſai. 49. Jer. 6. When thine Eyes …
With rule
… Prophet Iſaiah did once, thou ſhouldeſt be forced at laſt to confeſs, I have labour'dlabor'd in vain, I have employed my ſtrength for nought, Iſai. 49. Jer. 6. When thine Eyes …
Charles Drelincourt · The Christians Defense Against the Fears of Death · p. 235 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.