Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9686 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

augustinesaugustine's

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

Puritas changed it: 1,882 times in 544 works
Consistency: 99.9% (1,882 of 1,883)
Reach if approved: ~1,978 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,883 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,882 changes in 544 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,882)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… laws in the church be good, which were a grosse absurdity to think. S. AugustinesAugustine's speech therefore doth import, that where we haue no diuine precept, if yet we …
With rule
… laws in the church be good, which were a grosse absurdity to think. S. AugustinesAugustine's speech therefore doth import, that where we haue no diuine precept, if yet we …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 152 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but omitteth it wholly, but it is in all ancient Greeke Copies, and in AuguſtinesAugustine's expoſition vpon this Epiſtle, and in Ieromes expoſition of Origens Prologue vpon the Canticles …
With rule
… but omitteth it wholly, but it is in all ancient Greeke Copies, and in AuguſtinesAugustine's expoſition vpon this Epiſtle, and in Ieromes expoſition of Origens Prologue vpon the Canticles …
John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 186 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ioynt relation to Saint Augustine of the Demipelagian and Massilian errors, and desired Saint AugustinesAugustine's assistance against them. Of these one was, (as their Epistles to Saint Augustine make …
With rule
… ioynt relation to Saint Augustine of the Demipelagian and Massilian errors, and desired Saint AugustinesAugustine's assistance against them. Of these one was, (as their Epistles to Saint Augustine make …
Daniel Featley · A Second Parallel · p. 83 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not the Church at this daye, vse the very same termes, as in Saint AugustinesAugustine's time, Gratias agamus Domino Deo nostro, Let vs giue thankes to the Lord our …
With rule
… not the Church at this daye, vse the very same termes, as in Saint AugustinesAugustine's time, Gratias agamus Domino Deo nostro, Let vs giue thankes to the Lord our …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 436 · Open in the reader
Printed
First to Her Head, her Subiection and Helpfulnesse like that of Saint AugustinesAugustine's Mother to his Father..
With rule
First to Her Head, her Subiection and Helpfulnesse like that of Saint AugustinesAugustine's Mother to his Father..
Hannibal Gamon · The Praise of a Godly Woman · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… him I love nothing, but all things in him, and for him; 'tis S^t AugustinesAugustine's Confeſſion, Cum quo ſolo, & de quo ſolo, & in quo ſolo, anima intellectualis verè beata …
With rule
… him I love nothing, but all things in him, and for him; 'tis S^t AugustinesAugustine's Confeſſion, Cum quo ſolo, & de quo ſolo, & in quo ſolo, anima intellectualis verè beata …
William Gilbert · The Art of Building Comfort · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in blisse already, and in that ioy which they prayed for vnto them: as AugustinesAugustine's words for his mother Monica, plainely manifests: et credo domine quod feceris, quod te …
With rule
… in blisse already, and in that ioy which they prayed for vnto them: as AugustinesAugustine's words for his mother Monica, plainely manifests: et credo domine quod feceris, quod te …
William Guild · The Elf-Fire of Purgatory · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reft from London the right of the Archebishoprike, and translated it by the same AugustinesAugustine's meanes to Caunterburie. Al these thinges did Gregorie as Patriarke of Rome, and died …
With rule
… reft from London the right of the Archebishoprike, and translated it by the same AugustinesAugustine's meanes to Caunterburie. Al these thinges did Gregorie as Patriarke of Rome, and died …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader

Read-only. Sign in as a reviewer to approve or dismiss candidates.

Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

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