Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9666 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

watch'dwatched

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

Puritas changed it: 103 times in 80 works
Consistency: 94.5% (103 of 109)
Reach if approved: ~115 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: watched
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 109 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (103 changes in 80 works, 94.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 103)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Fugitives ſtopt by the way? Whence is it, that thoſe who have chang'd, are watch'dwatched with ſuch great care to hinder their flight; to the obliging them to depoſit …
With rule
… Fugitives ſtopt by the way? Whence is it, that thoſe who have chang'd, are watch'dwatched with ſuch great care to hinder their flight; to the obliging them to depoſit …
Jean Claude · Account of the Persecutions of the Protestants in France · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… can excuſe thy neglect: Let me tell you, there's never a ſervant ſo ſtrictly watch'dwatched, but might ſteal ſome time from his Maſter for his God; and yet do …
With rule
… can excuſe thy neglect: Let me tell you, there's never a ſervant ſo ſtrictly watch'dwatched, but might ſteal ſome time from his Maſter for his God; and yet do …
Oliver Heywood · Closet Prayer a Christian Duty · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
Therefore I watch'dwatched thy footsteps from that hour,
With rule
Therefore I watch'dwatched thy footsteps from that hour,
John Milton · Paradise Regained · p. 105 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ways: This was He, or She, who tendred my Salvation as their own; who watch'dwatched over me, and pray'd for me, and with me; and often told me of …
With rule
… Ways: This was He, or She, who tendred my Salvation as their own; who watch'dwatched over me, and pray'd for me, and with me; and often told me of …
John Shower · The Mourners Companion · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… haſtening and forwarding this birth of the Man-child, which the Dragon oppoſed, diligently watch'dwatched to hinder, reſiſt, and (if poſſible) to devour, as ſoon as born.
With rule
… haſtening and forwarding this birth of the Man-child, which the Dragon oppoſed, diligently watch'dwatched to hinder, reſiſt, and (if poſſible) to devour, as ſoon as born.
Henry Vane · Two Treatises · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… truly repreſented, calls for deep Humiliation; yet on their being humbled, deſperation muſt be watch'dwatched againſt: Yet this free ſpirit is free to viſit thoſe that have carryed untowardly …
With rule
… truly repreſented, calls for deep Humiliation; yet on their being humbled, deſperation muſt be watch'dwatched againſt: Yet this free ſpirit is free to viſit thoſe that have carryed untowardly …
William Bagshawe · The Riches of Grace Displayed · p. 119 · Open in the reader
Printed
For Means and Seasons, he hath wisely watch'dwatched,
With rule
For Means and Seasons, he hath wisely watch'dwatched,
Richard Baxter · Additions to the Poetical Fragments of Baxter · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is therefore, our looking well to that, having Oil in our Veſſels; for they watch'dwatched, who were ſo ready, though the Bridegroom delaying his coming, they ſlumbred, and lay …
With rule
… is therefore, our looking well to that, having Oil in our Veſſels; for they watch'dwatched, who were ſo ready, though the Bridegroom delaying his coming, they ſlumbred, and lay …
Thomas Beverley · The Parable of the Ten Virgins · p. 76 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.