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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9760 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

abhorr'dabhor'd

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

Puritas changed it
194 times in 140 works
Consistency
100% (194 of 194)
Reach if approved
~204 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: abhorred
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
194 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (194 changes in 140 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 194)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … a paire of shooes. Ioel 3. 6. Amos 2. 6. but we see there how much the Lord abhorr'dabhor'd that detestable fact, and recompenc'd it upon the necke of the oppressors. How many …
    With rule
    … a paire of shooes. Ioel 3. 6. Amos 2. 6. but we see there how much the Lord abhorr'dabhor'd that detestable fact, and recompenc'd it upon the necke of the oppressors. How many …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … do a kinder thing for them than to put them there. Doctrines to be abhorr'dabhor'd as Hell it self; and yet upon these grounds he builds their Church by …
    With rule
    … do a kinder thing for them than to put them there. Doctrines to be abhorr'dabhor'd as Hell it self; and yet upon these grounds he builds their Church by …

    Richard Allestree · Eighteen Sermons · p. 84 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … in this degenerate Age, who altho they dare not publickly own the defil'd and abhorr'dabhor'd Name of Infidels, yet among their Companions employ their Wit to dispute and deride …
    With rule
    … in this degenerate Age, who altho they dare not publickly own the defil'd and abhorr'dabhor'd Name of Infidels, yet among their Companions employ their Wit to dispute and deride …

    William Bates · Sermons Preached on Several Occasions · p. 233 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … in them, which I look on as the canker of Chriſtianity, and have always abhorr'dabhor'd as the ſhadow of death; And your excellent Catholick, healing indeavours; Theſe I ſay …
    With rule
    … in them, which I look on as the canker of Chriſtianity, and have always abhorr'dabhor'd as the ſhadow of death; And your excellent Catholick, healing indeavours; Theſe I ſay …

    Richard Baxter · A Second True Defense of the Nonconformists · p. 179 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    T'himſelf, he lives abhorr'dabhor'd, and dies accurſt.
    With rule
    T'himſelf, he lives abhorr'dabhor'd, and dies accurſt.

    Nicolas Billingsley · A Treasury of Divine Raptures · p. 206 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … were Angel or Man, they ought … hold him as a perſon deſerving to be abhorr'dabhor'd hath of God and all good m…n. And that he might ſhew them …
    With rule
    … were Angel or Man, they ought … hold him as a perſon deſerving to be abhorr'dabhor'd hath of God and all good m…n. And that he might ſhew them …

    Samuel Cradock · The Apostolical History · p. 133 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … vain;— here was his temptation, but what was his resolution? to the contrary; he abhorr'dabhor'd the temptation, and himself too, where he indulged it in the least. If I …
    With rule
    … vain;— here was his temptation, but what was his resolution? to the contrary; he abhorr'dabhor'd the temptation, and himself too, where he indulged it in the least. If I …

    Obadiah Grew · Meditations the Parable of the Prodigal Son · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … blood ſhould redeem you, the very thought whereof (you ſay) your ſoul ſo much abhorr'dabhor'd, that you were forced to forſake that opinion of the Sublapſarians, (having, as you …
    With rule
    … blood ſhould redeem you, the very thought whereof (you ſay) your ſoul ſo much abhorr'dabhor'd, that you were forced to forſake that opinion of the Sublapſarians, (having, as you …

    Henry Hammond · A Pacific Discourse of Gods Grace · p. 14 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.