Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9692 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

compell'dcompel'd

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

Puritas changed it: 280 times in 172 works
Consistency: 100% (280 of 280)
Reach if approved: ~294 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: compelled
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 280 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (280 changes in 172 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 280)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… great Argument that they do not believe the Athanaſian Creed, Which ſaith, We are compell'dcompel'd by the Chriſtian Verity to acknowledge every Perſon to be by himſelf God; becauſe …
With rule
… great Argument that they do not believe the Athanaſian Creed, Which ſaith, We are compell'dcompel'd by the Chriſtian Verity to acknowledge every Perſon to be by himſelf God; becauſe …
Richard Frankland · Reflections on a Letter · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
2. No man can be compell'dcompel'd to accept the Executorſhip, unleſs he hath already intermedled with the Teſtators Goods as …
With rule
2. No man can be compell'dcompel'd to accept the Executorſhip, unleſs he hath already intermedled with the Teſtators Goods as …
John Godolphin · The Orphans Legacy · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
Desire and hope, two spurres, that forth compell'dcompel'd me;
With rule
Desire and hope, two spurres, that forth compell'dcompel'd me;
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
(To which they are compell'dcompel'd unwillingly)
With rule
(To which they are compell'dcompel'd unwillingly)
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Judges were softened with their Blood, and by the force of Nature were compell'dcompel'd to be compassionate, so as to offer them a release if they would but …
With rule
… the Judges were softened with their Blood, and by the force of Nature were compell'dcompel'd to be compassionate, so as to offer them a release if they would but …
William Bates · The Harmony of the Divine Attributes in Mans Redemption · p. 449 · Open in the reader
Printed
One was compell'dcompel'd to ride upon an Aſſe,
With rule
One was compell'dcompel'd to ride upon an Aſſe,
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of, that no sooner was he a Batcheller of Arts, but he was even compell'dcompel'd to become a Tutor, and presently was intrusted with as great a number of …
With rule
… of, that no sooner was he a Batcheller of Arts, but he was even compell'dcompel'd to become a Tutor, and presently was intrusted with as great a number of …
Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons · p. 139 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as make the mad World think us beſide our ſelves; 2 Cor. 5.13, 14. The Soul is compell'dcompel'd to come in to Chriſt, and yet it walks at Liberty; 'tis ſo ſwayed …
With rule
… as make the mad World think us beſide our ſelves; 2 Cor. 5.13, 14. The Soul is compell'dcompel'd to come in to Chriſt, and yet it walks at Liberty; 'tis ſo ſwayed …
Timothy Cruso · Twenty-Four Sermons · p. 58 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.