Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9728 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

repair'drepaired

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

Puritas changed it: 104 times in 73 works
Consistency: 97.2% (104 of 107)
Reach if approved: ~112 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: repaired
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 107 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (104 changes in 73 works, 97.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 104)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Be there repair'drepaired, where firſt we caught our fall:
With rule
Be there repair'drepaired, where firſt we caught our fall:
William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 131 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whole Nation a burnt-offering, is reasonable to expect: But when his goodness had repair'drepaired all this, to require them to fear that, does seem hard. That that goodness …
With rule
… whole Nation a burnt-offering, is reasonable to expect: But when his goodness had repair'drepaired all this, to require them to fear that, does seem hard. That that goodness …
Richard Allestree · Forty Sermons · p. 236 · Open in the reader
Printed
… account of them how it was laid out. And till the Temple was fully repair'drepaired they would not employ any of the money ſo collected to other uſes, but …
With rule
… account of them how it was laid out. And till the Temple was fully repair'drepaired they would not employ any of the money ſo collected to other uſes, but …
Samuel Cradock · The History of the Old Testament Methodized · p. 536 · Open in the reader
Printed
St. Paul's Church in London begun to be repair'drepaired.
With rule
St. Paul's Church in London begun to be repair'drepaired.
Samuel Clarke · The Historians Guide · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Successes of his Prayers! for they were such, that in our Distresses we still repair'drepaired unto him, under that encouragement, He is a Prophet, and he shall pray for …
With rule
… Successes of his Prayers! for they were such, that in our Distresses we still repair'drepaired unto him, under that encouragement, He is a Prophet, and he shall pray for …
Cotton Mather · The Life and Death of John Eliot · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to be diſmiſs't home: therfore with another part of them he enterd Huntingdon, and repair'drepaired it, where breaches had bin made; all the people thereabout returning to obedience. The …
With rule
… to be diſmiſs't home: therfore with another part of them he enterd Huntingdon, and repair'drepaired it, where breaches had bin made; all the people thereabout returning to obedience. The …
John Milton · The History of Britain · p. 215 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they are his, and not yours. You never made you never purchaſed, you never repair'drepaired any … theſe, nor can you do it.
With rule
… they are his, and not yours. You never made you never purchaſed, you never repair'drepaired any … theſe, nor can you do it.
Samuel Stodden · The Voice of the Rod · p. 147 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſtate, what ever you can miſs, what ever quarrel in it, 'twill be abundantly repair'drepaired and ſatisfied in this one of bleſſedneſs; ſend me all the torments and miſeries …
With rule
… ſtate, what ever you can miſs, what ever quarrel in it, 'twill be abundantly repair'drepaired and ſatisfied in this one of bleſſedneſs; ſend me all the torments and miſeries …
Henry Hammond · Works Volume 4 · p. 531 · 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.

Abridgment of Ecclesiastical Laws A42925

Printed
… be apportioned between Landlord and Tenant, p. 154. Sect. 34. By whom the Chancel ſhall be Repair'dRepaired, p. 175. Sect. 4. Inheritances not to be therewith charged in perpetuum, p. 144. Sect. 13. Whether a …
With rule
… be apportioned between Landlord and Tenant, p. 154. Sect. 34. By whom the Chancel ſhall be Repair'dRepaired, p. 175. Sect. 4. Inheritances not to be therewith charged in perpetuum, p. 144. Sect. 13. Whether a …
John Godolphin · Abridgment of Ecclesiastical Laws · Open in the reader