Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9659 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stirr'dstir'd

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

Puritas changed it: 396 times in 232 works
Consistency: 99.0% (396 of 400)
Reach if approved: ~420 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: stirred
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 400 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (396 changes in 232 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 396)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… for perſecution and religious cruelty as the Biſhops and Clergy or thoſe that are ſtirr'dstir'd up by them, againſt diſſenters or one another. The doleful devaſtations and Schiſms about …
With rule
… for perſecution and religious cruelty as the Biſhops and Clergy or thoſe that are ſtirr'dstir'd up by them, againſt diſſenters or one another. The doleful devaſtations and Schiſms about …
Richard Baxter · The True Way of Concord of All the Christian Churches · p. 268 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſelf-demonſtrating Symbols, as that they may be found out by them that are ſtirr'dstir'd up by God to Read, and ſo propos'd to thoſe whom God enclines to …
With rule
… ſelf-demonſtrating Symbols, as that they may be found out by them that are ſtirr'dstir'd up by God to Read, and ſo propos'd to thoſe whom God enclines to …
Thomas Beverley · A Scripture Line of Time · p. 166 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to obtain it thus? you go about it unſenſibly, and your hearts are not ſtirr'dstir'd, but when Chriſt came he was ſenſible of it, in ſeeking to God about …
With rule
… to obtain it thus? you go about it unſenſibly, and your hearts are not ſtirr'dstir'd, but when Chriſt came he was ſenſible of it, in ſeeking to God about …
Jeremiah Burroughs · Gospel Remission · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… And who a greater Perſecutor? So the Devout and Honourable Women of Old, were ſtirr'dstir'd up by the Jews, together with the chief men of the City of Antioch …
With rule
… And who a greater Perſecutor? So the Devout and Honourable Women of Old, were ſtirr'dstir'd up by the Jews, together with the chief men of the City of Antioch …
Hercules Collins · Counsel for the Living Occasioned from the Dead · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in his ſpeech. Job had indured much, and all his ſufferings hitherto had not ſtirr'dstir'd any paſſion in him but that of ſorrow, as we ſaw in the latter …
With rule
… in his ſpeech. Job had indured much, and all his ſufferings hitherto had not ſtirr'dstir'd any paſſion in him but that of ſorrow, as we ſaw in the latter …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 1-3 · p. 288 · Open in the reader
Printed
… behooving that the thing ſtirr'dstir'd be bulkie, but that the thing through which 'tis ſtirr'dstir'd be alſo roomthy. Thus as a ghoſt, becauſe no bulky Being, cannot move through …
With rule
… behooving that the thing ſtirr'dstir'd be bulkie, but that the thing through which 'tis ſtirr'dstir'd be alſo roomthy. Thus as a ghoſt, becauſe no bulky Being, cannot move through …
Nathaniel Fairfax · Bulk and Selvage of the World · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
Not to be stirr'dstir'd by tempests violent,
With rule
Not to be stirr'dstir'd by tempests violent,
John Vicars · A Prospective Glass to Look into Heaven · Open in the reader
Printed
… witness the Volumes of burned and otherwise murdered Protestants; and witness the Irish Zeal stirr'dstir'd up by their Clergy, that murdered two hundred thousand in so narrow a room …
With rule
… witness the Volumes of burned and otherwise murdered Protestants; and witness the Irish Zeal stirr'dstir'd up by their Clergy, that murdered two hundred thousand in so narrow a room …
Richard Baxter · Church History of the Government of Bishops and Their Councils · p. 457 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions A28159

Printed
Stirr'dStir'd up the twice-third Perſecution:
With rule
Stirr'dStir'd up the twice-third Perſecution:
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
Stirr'dStir'd up rebellion by their inſtigation,
With rule
Stirr'dStir'd up rebellion by their inſtigation,
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 118 · Open in the reader

The Person and Period of the Antichrist A52810

Printed
… is an Apoſtate from p. 31. to 37. 2ly. That he is Chriſts Enemy, p. 28. 3ly. Stirr'dStir'd up by Satan, p. 39. to 41. 4ly. That he hath a Monarchy in the Church …
With rule
… is an Apoſtate from p. 31. to 37. 2ly. That he is Chriſts Enemy, p. 28. 3ly. Stirr'dStir'd up by Satan, p. 39. to 41. 4ly. That he hath a Monarchy in the Church …
Christopher Ness · The Person and Period of the Antichrist · Open in the reader

The Garden of Zion B01751

Printed
Stirr'dStir'd up Hadad for an adverſarie
With rule
Stirr'dStir'd up Hadad for an adverſarie
Zacharie Boyd · The Garden of Zion · p. 198 · Open in the reader