Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9673 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fam'dfamed

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

Puritas changed it: 110 times in 80 works
Consistency: 95.6% (110 of 115)
Reach if approved: ~121 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: famed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 115 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (110 changes in 80 works, 95.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 110)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… abroad, and in his Service, and she proved with Child. If this should be fam'dfamed abroad, it could not but tend much to the Kings Dishonour; yea, and to …
With rule
… abroad, and in his Service, and she proved with Child. If this should be fam'dfamed abroad, it could not but tend much to the Kings Dishonour; yea, and to …
Robert Sanderson · Thirty-Six Sermons · p. 523 · Open in the reader
Printed
And th' fleece-deprived Colchi I am known: my fam'dfamed
With rule
And th' fleece-deprived Colchi I am known: my fam'dfamed
James Ussher · The Annals of the World · p. 601 · Open in the reader
Printed
Celestiall Cupid her fam'dfamed Son advanc't,
With rule
Celestiall Cupid her fam'dfamed Son advanc't,
John Milton · A Mask Presented · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hath been noted, conſum'd more Time, then had paſs'd before it from that ſo fam'dfamed Ere of Ʋrbs condita, or the building of Rome; But becauſe this is matter …
With rule
… hath been noted, conſum'd more Time, then had paſs'd before it from that ſo fam'dfamed Ere of Ʋrbs condita, or the building of Rome; But becauſe this is matter …
Thomas Beverley · The Kingdom of Jesus Christ Entering at 1697 · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… deſire riches, that they may be accounted rich, and honour, that they may be fam'dfamed for honourable. To know only that we may be known, is worſe then not …
With rule
… deſire riches, that they may be accounted rich, and honour, that they may be fam'dfamed for honourable. To know only that we may be known, is worſe then not …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 4-7 · p. 401 · Open in the reader
Printed
Henricus Bullingerus, one of the known and fam'dfamed Reformers of Religion in Switzerland, joins his Teſtimony to that of Beza, in aſſerting …
With rule
Henricus Bullingerus, one of the known and fam'dfamed Reformers of Religion in Switzerland, joins his Teſtimony to that of Beza, in aſſerting …
Thomas Goodwin · The True Nature of the Gospel · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
The Moral of More's fam'dfamed Vtopia
With rule
The Moral of More's fam'dfamed Vtopia
Cotton Mather · Poem Dedicated to Urian Oaks · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… people, and the praiſe of his Saints; that is, making them a Nation praiſed, fam'dfamed, and renowned throughout the World: And here you find what it was that made …
With rule
… people, and the praiſe of his Saints; that is, making them a Nation praiſed, fam'dfamed, and renowned throughout the World: And here you find what it was that made …
Simon Patrick · Sermon on Day of Fasting · p. 5 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

An Exposition of the Song of Songs A27602

Printed
Now from ſix Hundred ſixty ſix Fam'dFamed Year
With rule
Now from ſix Hundred ſixty ſix Fam'dFamed Year
Thomas Beverley · An Exposition of the Song of Songs · p. 41 · Open in the reader