Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9724 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

potipharspotiphar's

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

Puritas changed it: 162 times in 109 works
Consistency: 98.7% (162 of 164)
Reach if approved: ~172 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 164 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (162 changes in 109 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 162)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… luſtes thereof? Is there no difference betweene chaſt Ioſeph, who being ſet vpon by PotipharsPotiphar's wife, and tempted to commit folly, ranne away; and betweene the light, and wanton …
With rule
… luſtes thereof? Is there no difference betweene chaſt Ioſeph, who being ſet vpon by PotipharsPotiphar's wife, and tempted to commit folly, ranne away; and betweene the light, and wanton …
Willem Teellinck · Pauls Complaint Against his Natural Corruption · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not alwayes true, yea ſometimes falſe: therefore Ioſeph had learned to run away, when PotipharsPotiphar's wife would willingly have had him to her Iuſtful imbraces: and the friends of …
With rule
… not alwayes true, yea ſometimes falſe: therefore Ioſeph had learned to run away, when PotipharsPotiphar's wife would willingly have had him to her Iuſtful imbraces: and the friends of …
Robert Abbot · Four Sermons · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his bleſſing. Was not Labans houſe bleſſed with the company of Jacob? Was not PotipharsPotiphar's houſe bleſſed with the company of Joſeph. Surely where good company is, there is …
With rule
… his bleſſing. Was not Labans houſe bleſſed with the company of Jacob? Was not PotipharsPotiphar's houſe bleſſed with the company of Joſeph. Surely where good company is, there is …
William Bridge · Eight Sermons · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
… both pardoning ſin, and mortifying corruption: When Jacob was with Laban, and Joſeph in PotipharsPotiphar's houſe, all was well; much more will all be well, where God himſelf is.
With rule
… both pardoning ſin, and mortifying corruption: When Jacob was with Laban, and Joſeph in PotipharsPotiphar's houſe, all was well; much more will all be well, where God himſelf is.
John Cotton · Commentary on 1 John · p. 307 · Open in the reader
Printed
… forbidden fruits, Gen. 3.6. David by seeing Beethsheba. 2 Sam. 11.2, Sampson by seeing a Harlot. Iudg. 16.1. PotipharsPotiphar's wife by seeing Iosephs beauty, and Herod by seeing Herodias dance, they were all …
With rule
… forbidden fruits, Gen. 3.6. David by seeing Beethsheba. 2 Sam. 11.2, Sampson by seeing a Harlot. Iudg. 16.1. PotipharsPotiphar's wife by seeing Iosephs beauty, and Herod by seeing Herodias dance, they were all …
Thomas Hall · A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… displeasure of the Ruler be, though unjustly and injuriously, lifted up against thee, as PotipharsPotiphar's against Josephs; Sauls against David; Labans against Jacob; Pauls against the Church of Christ …
With rule
… displeasure of the Ruler be, though unjustly and injuriously, lifted up against thee, as PotipharsPotiphar's against Josephs; Sauls against David; Labans against Jacob; Pauls against the Church of Christ …
Edward Reynolds · Annotations on the Book of Ecclesiastes · p. 316 · Open in the reader
Printed
Ninth, PotipharsPotiphar's wife falſely accuſed Ioſeph, Gen. 39.17.
With rule
Ninth, PotipharsPotiphar's wife falſely accuſed Ioſeph, Gen. 39.17.
Josias Nichols · An Order of Household Instruction · Open in the reader
Printed
… children of this world are wiſer in their generation then the children of light. PotipharsPotiphar's wife choſe the fitteſt time to prouoke Ioſeph to luſt, Ioſeph was alone in …
With rule
… children of this world are wiſer in their generation then the children of light. PotipharsPotiphar's wife choſe the fitteſt time to prouoke Ioſeph to luſt, Ioſeph was alone in …
Samuel Smith · The Admirable Convert · p. 205 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 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.