Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9719 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

obscur'dobscured

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

Puritas changed it: 109 times in 71 works
Consistency: 97.3% (109 of 112)
Reach if approved: ~118 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: obscured
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 112 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (109 changes in 71 works, 97.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 109)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of Divinity, as they call it, without School-Terms and Metaphysical Notions, which have obscur'dobscured, rather than explain'd our Religion, and made it seem difficult without cause. Thus taught …
With rule
… of Divinity, as they call it, without School-Terms and Metaphysical Notions, which have obscur'dobscured, rather than explain'd our Religion, and made it seem difficult without cause. Thus taught …
John Milton · Supplement to Du Moulin · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… eternally? and, it may be, much through our ſinful Neglects; either we have been obſcur'dobscured, and not to be ſeen, when we ſhould have appear'd for God, in the …
With rule
… eternally? and, it may be, much through our ſinful Neglects; either we have been obſcur'dobscured, and not to be ſeen, when we ſhould have appear'd for God, in the …
Samuel Stodden · The Voice of the Rod · p. 134 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or make us and our ſufferings glorious: Stars ſhine in the night, they are obſcur'dobscured in the day; when Vincentius was tormented by the Tyrant, hee ſaid, Thou ſhalt …
With rule
… or make us and our ſufferings glorious: Stars ſhine in the night, they are obſcur'dobscured in the day; when Vincentius was tormented by the Tyrant, hee ſaid, Thou ſhalt …
William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 1-5 · p. 273 · Open in the reader
Printed
Then (almost obscur'dobscured) appeares
With rule
Then (almost obscur'dobscured) appeares
George Wither · Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete · Open in the reader
Printed
… New Testament, and the Sunne being risen, all his other workes and benefits being obscur'dobscured by the comming of Christ, this title is most congruous and solemne, God the …
With rule
… New Testament, and the Sunne being risen, all his other workes and benefits being obscur'dobscured by the comming of Christ, this title is most congruous and solemne, God the …
William Ames · Analytical Exposition of Peters Epistles · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… It was disorder'd in the Heavens, and simpathiz'd in the Elements. The Sun was obscur'dobscured against all possibility of Nature; for the Moon was opposite, and in the Full …
With rule
… It was disorder'd in the Heavens, and simpathiz'd in the Elements. The Sun was obscur'dobscured against all possibility of Nature; for the Moon was opposite, and in the Full …
William Bates · Spiritual Perfection Unfolded and Enforced from 2 Corinthians 7:1 · p. 406 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Nature had been for ever eclipſed, and the voluntarineſs of his Sacrifice had been obſcur'dobscured: The ſtrangeneſs of ſuch a Judgment would have made his innocence incredible; he could …
With rule
… Nature had been for ever eclipſed, and the voluntarineſs of his Sacrifice had been obſcur'dobscured: The ſtrangeneſs of ſuch a Judgment would have made his innocence incredible; he could …
Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 535 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they shall enjoy, free of all those weaknesses and defects, whereby their Virtues are obscur'dobscured, and lessen'd in this World. For in new Jerusalem, the Spirits of just men …
With rule
… they shall enjoy, free of all those weaknesses and defects, whereby their Virtues are obscur'dobscured, and lessen'd in this World. For in new Jerusalem, the Spirits of just men …
John Kettlewell · The Practical Believer · p. 349 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Paradise Lost A50919

Printed
Obscur'dObscured, where highest Woods impenetrable
With rule
Obscur'dObscured, where highest Woods impenetrable
John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader