Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9655 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

shin'dshined

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

Puritas changed it: 208 times in 110 works
Consistency: 98.1% (208 of 212)
Reach if approved: ~223 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: shined
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 212 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (208 changes in 110 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 208)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Their glorious rayes, and like to Phoebus ſhin'dshined.
With rule
Their glorious rayes, and like to Phoebus ſhin'dshined.
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
In this our Orb; few left which shin'dshined so bright.
With rule
In this our Orb; few left which shin'dshined so bright.
Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhining out. Believers are Children of the day, and of the light; God hath ſhin'dshined into their hearts, in the face of Chriſt Jeſus. Now the World, and the …
With rule
… ſhining out. Believers are Children of the day, and of the light; God hath ſhin'dshined into their hearts, in the face of Chriſt Jeſus. Now the World, and the …
William Dyer · Mount Zion · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the new Covenant beginning its Progreſs, and going from thence to all Men, ſhin'dshined with the greateſt brightneſs. Which very well agrees to the Doctrine of the Goſpel …
With rule
… of the new Covenant beginning its Progreſs, and going from thence to all Men, ſhin'dshined with the greateſt brightneſs. Which very well agrees to the Doctrine of the Goſpel …
Thomas Goodwin · The True Nature of the Gospel · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
Who lived have where Goſpel-Light hath ſhin'dshined,
With rule
Who lived have where Goſpel-Light hath ſhin'dshined,
Benjamin Keach · Zion in Distress 2 · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
No comfort, but what from the Heavens ſhin'dshined;
With rule
No comfort, but what from the Heavens ſhin'dshined;
Alexander Shields · An Elegy Upon the Death of James Renwick 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
Which in thy more apparant vertues shin'dshined
With rule
Which in thy more apparant vertues shin'dshined
George Wither · The Shepherds Hunting · Open in the reader
Printed
… was no vanishing ray, soon eclips'd by a Disease, and extinguisht by Death, but shin'dshined in the countenance without any declination. The Tongue was Man's peculiar glory, being the …
With rule
… was no vanishing ray, soon eclips'd by a Disease, and extinguisht by Death, but shin'dshined in the countenance without any declination. The Tongue was Man's peculiar glory, being the …
William Bates · The Harmony of the Divine Attributes in Mans Redemption · p. 7 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Virgins Pattern in the Life and Death of Susanna Perwich A26760

Printed
Shin'dShined bright in her, the lovely face
With rule
Shin'dShined bright in her, the lovely face
John Batchiler · The Virgins Pattern in the Life and Death of Susanna Perwich · Open in the reader