Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9658 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stil'dstilled

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

Puritas changed it: 151 times in 98 works
Consistency: 96.7% (151 of 156)
Reach if approved: ~164 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: stiled
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 156 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (151 changes in 98 works, 96.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 151)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and find Grace; that we may find more Grace, Heb. 4. O Lord, thou hast stil'dstilled thy self a God of Grace; and thou hast made a Covenant of Grace …
With rule
… and find Grace; that we may find more Grace, Heb. 4. O Lord, thou hast stil'dstilled thy self a God of Grace; and thou hast made a Covenant of Grace …
Samuel Slater · Of Growth in Grace · p. 116 · Open in the reader
Printed
In bitter grief; yet I am I ſtil'dstilled
With rule
In bitter grief; yet I am I ſtil'dstilled
Nathanael Vincent · A Heaven or Hell Upon Earth · Open in the reader
Printed
… if you will, that it may dance everlaſtingly with the bleſſed Angels in heaven, ſtil'dstilled the Martyr in Baſel nobly. He is a wiſe Merchant, that can purchaſe heaven …
With rule
… if you will, that it may dance everlaſtingly with the bleſſed Angels in heaven, ſtil'dstilled the Martyr in Baſel nobly. He is a wiſe Merchant, that can purchaſe heaven …
John Stoughton · The Heavenly Conversation and Natural Mans Condition · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the Body of the Sins of the Flesh, as the corrupt Nature is stil'dstilled by the Apostle, from the variety and union of the vicious Affections, there are …
With rule
… in the Body of the Sins of the Flesh, as the corrupt Nature is stil'dstilled by the Apostle, from the variety and union of the vicious Affections, there are …
William Bates · A Sure Trial of Uprightness · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… firſt, becauſe He loves it above all things, and upon this account is often ſtil'dstilled in the Scriptures, the GOD of peace; hating nothing in the world more than …
With rule
… firſt, becauſe He loves it above all things, and upon this account is often ſtil'dstilled in the Scriptures, the GOD of peace; hating nothing in the world more than …
Jean Daille · Forty-nine Sermons upon Colossians · p. 83 · Open in the reader
Printed
… respect to his incommunicable excellencies, our creature state can admit; It may be also stil'dstilled a likeness to him, being a real conformity to his Will concerning us: and …
With rule
… respect to his incommunicable excellencies, our creature state can admit; It may be also stil'dstilled a likeness to him, being a real conformity to his Will concerning us: and …
John Howe · The Blessedness of the Righteous · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… St. Paul calls our God, the God of all Consolation, as here he is stil'dstilled the God of all Grace, and this is our rejoycing, that in his hand …
With rule
… St. Paul calls our God, the God of all Consolation, as here he is stil'dstilled the God of all Grace, and this is our rejoycing, that in his hand …
Robert Leighton · Practical Commentary of 1 Peter Volume 2 · p. 480 · Open in the reader
Printed
… carries all before him as far as London, but is there repell'd, p. 257. is ſtil'dstilled King of England, ibid. he ſickens and dies. p. 258.
With rule
… carries all before him as far as London, but is there repell'd, p. 257. is ſtil'dstilled King of England, ibid. he ſickens and dies. p. 258.
John Milton · The History of Britain · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.