Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9654 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

samuelssamuel's

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

Puritas changed it: 745 times in 358 works
Consistency: 100% (745 of 745)
Reach if approved: ~783 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: samuel's
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 745 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (745 changes in 358 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 745)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… polluted it as it cannot be purged but by his owne blood, and vntill SamuelsSamuel's sentence against Agag be passed vpon him; that as his sword had made another …
With rule
… polluted it as it cannot be purged but by his owne blood, and vntill SamuelsSamuel's sentence against Agag be passed vpon him; that as his sword had made another …
Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 575 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bleſsing vpon ſuch as conſecrate their posterity to the holy Miniſtery. They are right SamuelsSamuel's, firſt, by their Parents giuen to God, & againe, giuen of God to the ſeruice …
With rule
… bleſsing vpon ſuch as conſecrate their posterity to the holy Miniſtery. They are right SamuelsSamuel's, firſt, by their Parents giuen to God, & againe, giuen of God to the ſeruice …
Samuel Gibson · Sermon of Ecclesiastical Benediction · Open in the reader
Printed
… them, but good words? What Prophet could ſpeake better words, then this Diuell in SamuelsSamuel's mantle? Neither is there at any time ſo much danger of that wicked ſpirit …
With rule
… them, but good words? What Prophet could ſpeake better words, then this Diuell in SamuelsSamuel's mantle? Neither is there at any time ſo much danger of that wicked ſpirit …
Joseph Hall · History of the Old Testament Volume 5 · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… congregation conſiſting of men, women and children, wept with a great lamentation. So in SamuelsSamuel's time in that faſt they wept abundantly. The Lord loueth the teares of his …
With rule
… congregation conſiſting of men, women and children, wept with a great lamentation. So in SamuelsSamuel's time in that faſt they wept abundantly. The Lord loueth the teares of his …
Henry Holland · The Christian Exercise of Fasting · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… men, and the better thought on for the profeſſing of him, as Saul deſired SamuelsSamuel's companie and preſence, that thereby hee might the more be honoured before the people …
With rule
… men, and the better thought on for the profeſſing of him, as Saul deſired SamuelsSamuel's companie and preſence, that thereby hee might the more be honoured before the people …
William Negus · Mans Active Obedience · p. 132 · Open in the reader
Printed
… integritie Abrahams, in meekenesse Moses, in knowledge Arons, in paines Paules, and in praying SamuelsSamuel's: and remember, that as Augustine sayd, Manus pauperum sunt gazophylacium Christi, The hands of …
With rule
… integritie Abrahams, in meekenesse Moses, in knowledge Arons, in paines Paules, and in praying SamuelsSamuel's: and remember, that as Augustine sayd, Manus pauperum sunt gazophylacium Christi, The hands of …
William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God ſpeaketh nothing in vaine, much leſſe if he ſweare to it, according to SamuelsSamuel's words, the ſtrength of Iſrael will not lie. One iot or tittle of his …
With rule
… God ſpeaketh nothing in vaine, much leſſe if he ſweare to it, according to SamuelsSamuel's words, the ſtrength of Iſrael will not lie. One iot or tittle of his …
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reade that God rebuketh Samuel for praying for Saul: howſoeuer ſome may thinke that SamuelsSamuel's prayer was onely for enioying the kingdome, and not for the pardon of Sauls …
With rule
… reade that God rebuketh Samuel for praying for Saul: howſoeuer ſome may thinke that SamuelsSamuel's prayer was onely for enioying the kingdome, and not for the pardon of Sauls …
John Smyth · A Pattern of True Prayer · p. 42 · 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.