Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9762 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

absolomsabsolom's

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

Puritas changed it: 273 times in 157 works
Consistency: 99.6% (273 of 274)
Reach if approved: ~288 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 274 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (273 changes in 157 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 273)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… fire, yet it cannot cut of no… melt away any of this pride, till AbsolomsAbsolom's haire become his halter, till Iezabels paint be washed of with her owne blood …
With rule
… fire, yet it cannot cut of no… melt away any of this pride, till AbsolomsAbsolom's haire become his halter, till Iezabels paint be washed of with her owne blood …
Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 142 · Open in the reader
Printed
3. Even the good gifts of God are turned to the bane of the wicked. AbsolomsAbsolom's glory, his goodly long locks, were his halter to hang him up by: Achitophels …
With rule
3. Even the good gifts of God are turned to the bane of the wicked. AbsolomsAbsolom's glory, his goodly long locks, were his halter to hang him up by: Achitophels …
Richard Sibbes · Yea and Amen · p. 319 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that the people following Davids example, continued that custome still: as it appeareth by AbsolomsAbsolom's excuse to his father, who asked leave to goe and sacrifice in Hebron, 2 Sam …
With rule
… that the people following Davids example, continued that custome still: as it appeareth by AbsolomsAbsolom's excuse to his father, who asked leave to goe and sacrifice in Hebron, 2 Sam …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 377 · Open in the reader
Printed
… King and not his judgement, the King miſled, not rightly informed, ſay our ſeditious AbſolomsAbsolom's, and, Oh that I were made Iudge in the land, that every man might …
With rule
… King and not his judgement, the King miſled, not rightly informed, ſay our ſeditious AbſolomsAbsolom's, and, Oh that I were made Iudge in the land, that every man might …
John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 721 · Open in the reader
Printed
The cause of murther. is either profit revenge lust such was AbsolomsAbsolom's unto Ammon.
With rule
The cause of murther. is either profit revenge lust such was AbsolomsAbsolom's unto Ammon.
Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 120 · Open in the reader
Printed
… defeat Ahithophels counſel, (2 Sam. 15. 31. Lord turn Ahithophels counſel into fooliſhneſs) uſed means to eſcape AbſolomsAbsolom's bloody Army, martialling his own Army for that end, 2 Sam. 18. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. how quiet he is …
With rule
… defeat Ahithophels counſel, (2 Sam. 15. 31. Lord turn Ahithophels counſel into fooliſhneſs) uſed means to eſcape AbſolomsAbsolom's bloody Army, martialling his own Army for that end, 2 Sam. 18. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. how quiet he is …
Thomas Cobbet · A Practical Discourse of Prayer · p. 440 · Open in the reader
Printed
… saith our plain proverb, Ill will never speaks well. And therefore I listen to AbsolomsAbsolom's words as to a loud Libell; and we should be no less injurious to …
With rule
… saith our plain proverb, Ill will never speaks well. And therefore I listen to AbsolomsAbsolom's words as to a loud Libell; and we should be no less injurious to …
Thomas Fuller · Sermon at the Funeral of George Heycock · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… mother by it. And it hath ſtrangely ſhewed it ſelfe euen to immeriting Children. AbſolomsAbsolom's vnnaturall rebellion could not quench the flames of Dauids loue, but that he both …
With rule
… mother by it. And it hath ſtrangely ſhewed it ſelfe euen to immeriting Children. AbſolomsAbsolom's vnnaturall rebellion could not quench the flames of Dauids loue, but that he both …
Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 4 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Throne of David A85769

Printed
1. V. 26. ABſolomsAbsolom's ambitious heart is mightily grieved (as we ſee V. 32.) That he is reſtrained from …
With rule
1. V. 26. ABſolomsAbsolom's ambitious heart is mightily grieved (as we ſee V. 32.) That he is reſtrained from …
William Guild · The Throne of David · p. 197 · Open in the reader