Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9739 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ventur'dventured

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

Puritas changed it: 106 times in 86 works
Consistency: 99.0% (106 of 107)
Reach if approved: ~112 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ventured
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 (106 changes in 86 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 106)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
I would not though for two pence, not have ventur'dventured that little Conceit of mine, ſeeing it is return'd home again with ſo rare …
With rule
I would not though for two pence, not have ventur'dventured that little Conceit of mine, ſeeing it is return'd home again with ſo rare …
Clement Ellis · The Reflecters Defense of His Letter to a Friend · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with our selves for some time, whether to do it or no, before we ventur'dventured on it.
With rule
… with our selves for some time, whether to do it or no, before we ventur'dventured on it.
John Kettlewell · The Practical Believer · p. 324 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thinks he sees; no more did our Brethren of the Reformed Churches abroad; they ventur'dventured (God being their guide) out of rigid POPERY, into that which wee in mockery …
With rule
… thinks he sees; no more did our Brethren of the Reformed Churches abroad; they ventur'dventured (God being their guide) out of rigid POPERY, into that which wee in mockery …
John Milton · Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not a Virgin Well, as the former, becauſe it was not ſo deep. I ventur'dventured into that, notwithſtanding my indiſpoſition.
With rule
… not a Virgin Well, as the former, becauſe it was not ſo deep. I ventur'dventured into that, notwithſtanding my indiſpoſition.
John Ray · A Collection of Curious Travels and Voyages · p. 141 · Open in the reader
Printed
… He does not ſay, that but few ſhall be ſaved; (as ſome have preſumptuouſly ventur'dventured to determine) but only few in compariſon of thoſe many, that ſhall ſeek to …
With rule
… He does not ſay, that but few ſhall be ſaved; (as ſome have preſumptuouſly ventur'dventured to determine) but only few in compariſon of thoſe many, that ſhall ſeek to …
John Tillotson · Sermons and Discourses Volume 5 · p. 303 · Open in the reader
Printed
… leo, qualis eris. Captain Hazael abhorred the thoughts of doing that, which he boldly ventur'dventured upon, when he was King Hazael. It uſually ſo falls out, that ſome are …
With rule
… leo, qualis eris. Captain Hazael abhorred the thoughts of doing that, which he boldly ventur'dventured upon, when he was King Hazael. It uſually ſo falls out, that ſome are …
Dean Henry Wilkinson · Doctrine of Contentment · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and decreas'd: Let them but recollect what regrets and disquiets they had, when they ventur'dventured upon the first unlawful commission, and compare it with their present, and I doubt …
With rule
… and decreas'd: Let them but recollect what regrets and disquiets they had, when they ventur'dventured upon the first unlawful commission, and compare it with their present, and I doubt …
Richard Allestree · The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety · p. 139 · Open in the reader
Printed
With ventur'dventured lives for Truths defence that ſtand.
With rule
With ventur'dventured lives for Truths defence that ſtand.
Anne Bradstreet · Several Poems · p. 200 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

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