Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9705 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

elizabethselizabeth's

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

Puritas changed it: 889 times in 430 works
Consistency: 98.0% (889 of 907)
Reach if approved: ~953 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 907 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (889 changes in 430 works, 98.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 889)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… which is ſpoken of the noting of the 7. of September the day of Queene ElizabethsElizabeth's Nativity with red lines referring you to mine anſwere herein in the argument of …
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… which is ſpoken of the noting of the 7. of September the day of Queene ElizabethsElizabeth's Nativity with red lines referring you to mine anſwere herein in the argument of …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader
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… of man leape within him, in the midſt of troubles, as the babe in ElizabethsElizabeth's wombe, when ſhe heard the ſalutation of Mary. Our rejoycing is this, the teſtimony …
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… of man leape within him, in the midſt of troubles, as the babe in ElizabethsElizabeth's wombe, when ſhe heard the ſalutation of Mary. Our rejoycing is this, the teſtimony …
Nicholas Lockyer · A Divine Discovery of Sincerity · p. 130 · Open in the reader
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… how baſe & loathſome ſoever about impotēt criples & lazars, as do the Nūnes of S. ElizabethsElizabeth's order: And al theſe, with other divers orders, that after another māner labor to …
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… how baſe & loathſome ſoever about impotēt criples & lazars, as do the Nūnes of S. ElizabethsElizabeth's order: And al theſe, with other divers orders, that after another māner labor to …
Gabriel Powel · The Papists Reasons of State and Religion · p. 97 · Open in the reader
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… all Christians, did Master Philip Amadas, and Master Arthur Barlow, take possession in Queene ElizabethsElizabeth's name. The next yeare, that mirrour of Resolution, Sir Richard Greenvile, conuaied thither an …
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… all Christians, did Master Philip Amadas, and Master Arthur Barlow, take possession in Queene ElizabethsElizabeth's name. The next yeare, that mirrour of Resolution, Sir Richard Greenvile, conuaied thither an …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 632 · Open in the reader
Printed
… together in one, then is comfort sealed up to the soule. The childe in ElizabethsElizabeth's wombe sprang at the presence and salutation of Mary; the speech of one hearty …
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… together in one, then is comfort sealed up to the soule. The childe in ElizabethsElizabeth's wombe sprang at the presence and salutation of Mary; the speech of one hearty …
Richard Sibbes · The Souls Conflict With Itself · p. 228 · Open in the reader
Printed
Queene ElizabethsElizabeth's raigne hath been most flourishing with loue of subiects at home, and honour of …
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Queene ElizabethsElizabeth's raigne hath been most flourishing with loue of subiects at home, and honour of …
Andrew Willet · An Antilogy · p. 229 · Open in the reader
Printed
… unto Antichrist. Besides the concurrent judgement of those uncomparable, and renowned Divines in Queene ElizabethsElizabeth's time, our present orthodoxe Divines, and Doctours, apprehend aright and acknowledge the infinite antipathy …
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… unto Antichrist. Besides the concurrent judgement of those uncomparable, and renowned Divines in Queene ElizabethsElizabeth's time, our present orthodoxe Divines, and Doctours, apprehend aright and acknowledge the infinite antipathy …
Robert Bolton · Two Sermons Preached at Northampton · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
… though not halfe ſo well furniſhed, as many now) in the beginning of Queene ElizabethsElizabeth's reigne, do ſo here?
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… though not halfe ſo well furniſhed, as many now) in the beginning of Queene ElizabethsElizabeth's reigne, do ſo here?
Cornelius Burges · The Fire of the Sanctuary Newly Uncovered · p. 313 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (18)

11 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Sermon 17 November 1599 A03475

Printed
… times yearly celebrated by the Church of England the 17. of November, commonly named (QVEENE ELIZABETHSELIZABETH'S HOLY DAY) bee repugnant to the immaculate inſtitutions of the law of God, and …
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… times yearly celebrated by the Church of England the 17. of November, commonly named (QVEENE ELIZABETHSELIZABETH'S HOLY DAY) bee repugnant to the immaculate inſtitutions of the law of God, and …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader

The Players Scourge A10187

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… to be inquired of in Visitations, set forth in the first yeere of Queene ELIZABETHSELIZABETH'S Raigne, Article 54. Church-wardens were enioyned to inquire; whether any Minstrels, or any other …
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… to be inquired of in Visitations, set forth in the first yeere of Queene ELIZABETHSELIZABETH'S Raigne, Article 54. Church-wardens were enioyned to inquire; whether any Minstrels, or any other …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 261 · Open in the reader
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… Bishop of Exeter, and Divinity Lecturer at Paules, in the second yeare of Queene ELIZABETHSELIZABETH'S raigne, In his Poore Mans Library, London 1571, part 1, fol. 13, 39, & fol. 46, 47: where he notably declaimes …
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… Bishop of Exeter, and Divinity Lecturer at Paules, in the second yeare of Queene ELIZABETHSELIZABETH'S raigne, In his Poore Mans Library, London 1571, part 1, fol. 13, 39, & fol. 46, 47: where he notably declaimes …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 688 · Open in the reader

Supplications of Saints A12610

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3 Dauid alone: Containing Queene ELIZABETHSELIZABETH'S prayers, & other Prayers in the name of diuers parties of ſeuerall eſtates: in number …
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3 Dauid alone: Containing Queene ELIZABETHSELIZABETH'S prayers, & other Prayers in the name of diuers parties of ſeuerall eſtates: in number …
Thomas Sorocold · Supplications of Saints · Open in the reader

A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government A29737

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… so effectuall for saving the Queen of Scots life, as to take away Queen ELIZABETHSELIZABETH'S life; and thereupon, First, he dealeth covertly with William Stafford, a young Gentleman, and …
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… so effectuall for saving the Queen of Scots life, as to take away Queen ELIZABETHSELIZABETH'S life; and thereupon, First, he dealeth covertly with William Stafford, a young Gentleman, and …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 73 · Open in the reader

The Present State of London A37482

Printed
Queen ELIZABETHSELIZABETH'S Monument.
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Queen ELIZABETHSELIZABETH'S Monument.
Thomas De Laune · The Present State of London · p. 30 · Open in the reader

The Sword of Christian Magistracy A56215

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… Rebels in Cornwall, Devonſhire and the North, in King EDWARD the VI. and Queen ELIZABETHSELIZABETH'S Raigns, oppoſing their godly Reformations by open force; to whom that Text of Mr …
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… Rebels in Cornwall, Devonſhire and the North, in King EDWARD the VI. and Queen ELIZABETHSELIZABETH'S Raigns, oppoſing their godly Reformations by open force; to whom that Text of Mr …
William Prynne · The Sword of Christian Magistracy · p. 115 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

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… one to our ſenſe, the other to our remembrance. This day was both Queene ELIzABETHSElizabeth's Initium gloriae, and King IAMES his Initium regni. To her Natalitium ſalutis, as the …
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… one to our ſenſe, the other to our remembrance. This day was both Queene ELIzABETHSElizabeth's Initium gloriae, and King IAMES his Initium regni. To her Natalitium ſalutis, as the …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 479 · Open in the reader
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… ſeers ſo to ſpeake, as if before her late diſclamation of poperie, in Queene ELIzABETHSElizabeth's time, ſhe had not beene. Her monuments could haue taught you better, and haue …
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… ſeers ſo to ſpeake, as if before her late diſclamation of poperie, in Queene ELIzABETHSElizabeth's time, ſhe had not beene. Her monuments could haue taught you better, and haue …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 556 · Open in the reader
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… Scepter: How more than credible is it, that ſome of your Aſſemblies in Queene ELIzABETHSElizabeth's dayes concluded, that ſhee was not (euen in our ſenſe) Supreme Head of the …
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… Scepter: How more than credible is it, that ſome of your Aſſemblies in Queene ELIzABETHSElizabeth's dayes concluded, that ſhee was not (euen in our ſenſe) Supreme Head of the …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 380 · Open in the reader
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… broken, Bezaes revolt, the blaſting of Huguenots, Englands want of Churches and Chriſtendome; Queene ELIzABETHSElizabeth's vnwomanlineſſe, her Epiſcopall Iuriſdiction, her ſecret fruitfulneſſe; Engliſh Catholikes caſt in Beares skins to …
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… broken, Bezaes revolt, the blaſting of Huguenots, Englands want of Churches and Chriſtendome; Queene ELIzABETHSElizabeth's vnwomanlineſſe, her Epiſcopall Iuriſdiction, her ſecret fruitfulneſſe; Engliſh Catholikes caſt in Beares skins to …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 623 · Open in the reader