Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9714 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

labanslaban's

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

Puritas changed it: 524 times in 206 works
Consistency: 99.4% (524 of 527)
Reach if approved: ~554 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 527 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (524 changes in 206 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 524)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… sometime to shepheards; What a painfull and carefull life led Iacob while he was LabansLaban's shepheard? what sorrowes by day and night did he sustaine and swallow? Sometime to …
With rule
… sometime to shepheards; What a painfull and carefull life led Iacob while he was LabansLaban's shepheard? what sorrowes by day and night did he sustaine and swallow? Sometime to …
Thomas Taylor · The Parable of the Sower and of the Seed · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vnderſtand Gods by the tearme Elohim; as in Nachors religion, Elohim is Gods in LabansLaban's wordes: Therefore Sem might vſe EL, Almightie, in the frame ſingular.
With rule
… vnderſtand Gods by the tearme Elohim; as in Nachors religion, Elohim is Gods in LabansLaban's wordes: Therefore Sem might vſe EL, Almightie, in the frame ſingular.
Hugh Broughton · Observations Upon the First Ten Fathers · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not feare to be prouoked, either by bridling their corruptions, as he did sometimes LabansLaban's & Esaus, or turning their hearts towards vs, as he hath done the hearts of …
With rule
… not feare to be prouoked, either by bridling their corruptions, as he did sometimes LabansLaban's & Esaus, or turning their hearts towards vs, as he hath done the hearts of …
Thomas Cooper · The Cry and Revenge of Blood · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… inheritance▪ seeking to feede themselues and not the flocke, no waies considering, that if LabansLaban's sheepe were kept by Iacob so carefully in the frost of the night without …
With rule
… inheritance▪ seeking to feede themselues and not the flocke, no waies considering, that if LabansLaban's sheepe were kept by Iacob so carefully in the frost of the night without …
William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 211 · Open in the reader
Printed
… say, Iacob hath taken away that that was ours, Gen. 31.1. And, doe not our LabansLaban's, sonnes say, at least, thinke as much now? had they not rather part vvith …
With rule
… say, Iacob hath taken away that that was ours, Gen. 31.1. And, doe not our LabansLaban's, sonnes say, at least, thinke as much now? had they not rather part vvith …
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader
Printed
… in all vngratitude towards God: conſider this, that iuſt one for the loue of LabansLaban's daughter purpoſed withall willingnes to ſerue Laban 7. yeares. He reſolved with patience to endure …
With rule
… in all vngratitude towards God: conſider this, that iuſt one for the loue of LabansLaban's daughter purpoſed withall willingnes to ſerue Laban 7. yeares. He reſolved with patience to endure …
Sebastian Benefield · Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue cried out of their walls indeede, and by their demolished heapes may receiue LabansLaban's name, Iegar sahadutha, the heape of witnesse, their ruines remaining testimonies of GODS iudgements …
With rule
… haue cried out of their walls indeede, and by their demolished heapes may receiue LabansLaban's name, Iegar sahadutha, the heape of witnesse, their ruines remaining testimonies of GODS iudgements …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 112 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but if there be any gratiouſly good in the family, they doe much good. LabansLaban's family was the better for Iacob: and Potiphar, he and the Iaylor both proſpered …
With rule
… but if there be any gratiouſly good in the family, they doe much good. LabansLaban's family was the better for Iacob: and Potiphar, he and the Iaylor both proſpered …
Richard Sibbes · The Returning Backslider · p. 271 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.