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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9759 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

abelsabel's

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

Puritas changed it
602 times in 341 works
Consistency
99.3% (602 of 606)
Reach if approved
~637 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: abel's
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
606 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (602 changes in 341 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 602)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … acceptation with God, and without Faith it is impoſſible to pleaſe God. This made AbelsAbel's Sacrifice, and Noahs Obedience accepted: this made that cup of water, giuen to a …
    With rule
    … acceptation with God, and without Faith it is impoſſible to pleaſe God. This made AbelsAbel's Sacrifice, and Noahs Obedience accepted: this made that cup of water, giuen to a …

    Samuel Smith · Christs Last Supper · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … thou hast repented; first, the tree must be good, and then the fruit: first, AbelsAbel's person was accepted, and then his sacrifice; but to Caine, and his sacrifice, he …
    With rule
    … thou hast repented; first, the tree must be good, and then the fruit: first, AbelsAbel's person was accepted, and then his sacrifice; but to Caine, and his sacrifice, he …

    Thomas Taylor · The Practice of Repentance · p. 386 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … it by repentance. But this clause, as Chrysosostome well taketh it, is understood of AbelsAbel's subjection to his brother as the elder, post peccatiam hoc permitto ut primig…nitura …
    With rule
    … it by repentance. But this clause, as Chrysosostome well taketh it, is understood of AbelsAbel's subjection to his brother as the elder, post peccatiam hoc permitto ut primig…nitura …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 49 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … of life: but the other spring-heads, have ever since beene so frequented; that AbelsAbel's fountaine hath beene wholly almost neglected: that the Prophet had great reason, to give …
    With rule
    … of life: but the other spring-heads, have ever since beene so frequented; that AbelsAbel's fountaine hath beene wholly almost neglected: that the Prophet had great reason, to give …

    Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Psalm 1 · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of all ages. Cain thought his ſacrifice and ſeruice as worthie of acceptation as AbelsAbel's: ſcornfull Iſhmael as good, as religious Iſaacks: prophane Eſaus, as holy Iacobs. For vnbeleeuers …
    With rule
    … of all ages. Cain thought his ſacrifice and ſeruice as worthie of acceptation as AbelsAbel's: ſcornfull Iſhmael as good, as religious Iſaacks: prophane Eſaus, as holy Iacobs. For vnbeleeuers …

    Henry Holland · The Christian Exercise of Fasting · p. 95 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … ſo it hath beene from the beginning. Kain could not indure that his brother AbelsAbel's oblations ſhould be acceptable to the Lord, & not his, but hee would kill him …
    With rule
    … ſo it hath beene from the beginning. Kain could not indure that his brother AbelsAbel's oblations ſhould be acceptable to the Lord, & not his, but hee would kill him …

    Sebastian Benefield · Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … or Heaven, that seekes them not with his utmost indevour. The difference twixt Cains & AbelsAbel's sacrifice was this, Gen. 4.3, 4.5. The one did it negligently: brought the worst of his …
    With rule
    … or Heaven, that seekes them not with his utmost indevour. The difference twixt Cains & AbelsAbel's sacrifice was this, Gen. 4.3, 4.5. The one did it negligently: brought the worst of his …

    John Preston · Four Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 234 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Theodotio (a Greeke interpreter,) translateth it here, he set onfire. By this Gods acceptance, AbelsAbel's faith was confirmed touching life & salvation in Christ: otherwise God would not have received …
    With rule
    … Theodotio (a Greeke interpreter,) translateth it here, he set onfire. By this Gods acceptance, AbelsAbel's faith was confirmed touching life & salvation in Christ: otherwise God would not have received …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 21 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 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.

Moses Unveiled A02353

  • Printed
    ABelsAbel's sacrifice was onely for himselfe: but that of Christs, for the sins of the …
    With rule
    ABelsAbel's sacrifice was onely for himselfe: but that of Christs, for the sins of the …

    William Guild · Moses Unveiled · p. 8 · Open in the reader