Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9656 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sinn'dsin'd

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

Puritas changed it: 490 times in 236 works
Consistency: 95.7% (490 of 512)
Reach if approved: ~538 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: sinned
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 512 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (490 changes in 236 works, 95.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 490)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
LOrd! I have ſinn'dsin'd, that is the reaſon thou
With rule
LOrd! I have ſinn'dsin'd, that is the reaſon thou
Nicolas Billingsley · A Treasury of Divine Raptures · p. 78 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Sins, and Faith more honours him than all other Duties. St. Auſtin ſays, Judas ſinn'dsin'd worſe by his unbelieving ſorrow for his Sin, than by all his ſins that …
With rule
… Sins, and Faith more honours him than all other Duties. St. Auſtin ſays, Judas ſinn'dsin'd worſe by his unbelieving ſorrow for his Sin, than by all his ſins that …
Daniel Burgess · A Call to Sinners · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
Even those that never sinn'dsin'd like Adams fall.
With rule
Even those that never sinn'dsin'd like Adams fall.
Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons · p. 166 · Open in the reader
Printed
… tranſgreſſion, he intends his freedome from ſins againſt ſobriety, or that he had not ſinn'dsin'd againſt himſelfe. Secondly, that, by being innocent, his meaning is, he had not done …
With rule
… tranſgreſſion, he intends his freedome from ſins againſt ſobriety, or that he had not ſinn'dsin'd againſt himſelfe. Secondly, that, by being innocent, his meaning is, he had not done …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 32-24 · p. 198 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but as a Qualification for Mercy; not to merit it, (for Adam, before he ſinn'dsin'd, could not merit, much leſs then can we by our Repentance for it) but …
With rule
… but as a Qualification for Mercy; not to merit it, (for Adam, before he ſinn'dsin'd, could not merit, much leſs then can we by our Repentance for it) but …
Francis Fuller · A Treatise of Faith and Repentance · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
When we sinn'dsin'd last, is mercie. What befell
With rule
When we sinn'dsin'd last, is mercie. What befell
Edward Buckler · A Buckler Against the Fear of Death · Open in the reader
Printed
… gesture, therefore God Allowed it, rather then thus, God forbad sitting, and yet Christ sinn'dsin'd not, though he ate it sitting;
With rule
… gesture, therefore God Allowed it, rather then thus, God forbad sitting, and yet Christ sinn'dsin'd not, though he ate it sitting;
Vincent Alsop · A Sober Inquiry Into the Reasonings of the Serious Inquiry · p. 241 · Open in the reader
Printed
I ſinn'dsin'd and laugh'd; I lightly paſs'd it over:
With rule
I ſinn'dsin'd and laugh'd; I lightly paſs'd it over:
Richard Baxter · Poetical Fragments · p. 104 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (22)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 19 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Psalms of David in Meter with the Prose Interlined A27810

Printed
Sinn'dSin'd have our fathers, and are not, and born their sins we have,
With rule
Sinn'dSin'd have our fathers, and are not, and born their sins we have,
Zacharie Boyd · The Psalms of David in Meter with the Prose Interlined · Open in the reader

The Songs of the Old and New Testament in Meter A28926

Printed
Sinn'dSin'd have our fathers, and are not,
With rule
Sinn'dSin'd have our fathers, and are not,
Zacharie Boyd · The Songs of the Old and New Testament in Meter · Open in the reader

Twelve Single Sermons N01630

Printed
… this phraſe, before the Lord, does here more probably ſignify, that theſe Young Men Sinn'dSin'd thus abominably at the Tabernacle, the Houſe of God, the place of His ſpecial …
With rule
… this phraſe, before the Lord, does here more probably ſignify, that theſe Young Men Sinn'dSin'd thus abominably at the Tabernacle, the Houſe of God, the place of His ſpecial …
Benjamin Wadsworth · Twelve Single Sermons · p. 79 · Open in the reader