Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9770 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

brain'dbrained

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

Puritas changed it: 160 times in 117 works
Consistency: 96.9% (160 of 165)
Reach if approved: ~173 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: brained
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 165 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (160 changes in 117 works, 96.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 160)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the Almighty, or to judge any man: But I mention this, becauſe a hare-brain'dbrained fellow came (as himſelf ſaid) to revenge Erburies death upon me, which I no …
With rule
… the Almighty, or to judge any man: But I mention this, becauſe a hare-brain'dbrained fellow came (as himſelf ſaid) to revenge Erburies death upon me, which I no …
Ralph Farmer · The Lord Cravens Case · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… And would proclaim to all men, that they are none of thoſe melancholy, weak-brain'dbrained, or mean-ſpirited men, who are ſo aw▪d with the apprehenſions of a …
With rule
… And would proclaim to all men, that they are none of thoſe melancholy, weak-brain'dbrained, or mean-ſpirited men, who are ſo aw▪d with the apprehenſions of a …
Matthew Mead · Solomons Prescription for the Removal of Pestilence · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it up to Eternal Life. Whereas on the other hand, all idle and Addle-brain'dbrained Authors your Soul abhorreth as the Bee doth ſtinking Weeds.
With rule
… it up to Eternal Life. Whereas on the other hand, all idle and Addle-brain'dbrained Authors your Soul abhorreth as the Bee doth ſtinking Weeds.
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · Open in the reader
Printed
… read of a Popish Saint, Henry the Dane, that in a mad and hare-brain'dbrained deuotion, when wormes crawled out of a corrupt vlcer in his knee, did put …
With rule
… read of a Popish Saint, Henry the Dane, that in a mad and hare-brain'dbrained deuotion, when wormes crawled out of a corrupt vlcer in his knee, did put …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
Poore hare-brain'dbrained fool! Perhaps thou may'st go first:
With rule
Poore hare-brain'dbrained fool! Perhaps thou may'st go first:
Edward Buckler · A Buckler Against the Fear of Death · Open in the reader
Printed
… of a single Church Relation or Form, would have been taken for a wild-brain'dbrained Schismatick at least.
With rule
… of a single Church Relation or Form, would have been taken for a wild-brain'dbrained Schismatick at least.
Richard Baxter · The Dangerous Schismatic · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
Thus weak brain'dbrained I, reading thy lofty ſtile,
With rule
Thus weak brain'dbrained I, reading thy lofty ſtile,
Anne Bradstreet · Several Poems · p. 207 · Open in the reader
Printed
Where Macedonian Philips mad-brain'dbrained Son,
With rule
Where Macedonian Philips mad-brain'dbrained Son,
Samuel Clarke · The Life and Death of Alexander the Great · p. 62 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

3 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.

A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions A28159

Printed
Brain'dBrained ſome; ſtab'd others with their ſwords, forks, skeins.
With rule
Brain'dBrained ſome; ſtab'd others with their ſwords, forks, skeins.
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 137 · Open in the reader

A Complete and Compendious Church History A52804

Printed
… might never trouble his Kingdom any more; as with an Horrible Wind Satan had Brain'dBrained all Jobs Children, ſo by the like means he would have Drown'd all Chriſts …
With rule
… might never trouble his Kingdom any more; as with an Horrible Wind Satan had Brain'dBrained all Jobs Children, ſo by the like means he would have Drown'd all Chriſts …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 334 · Open in the reader

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

Printed
… Eſau did Jacob in Birth; this is before time. That this is no Broken-Brain'dBrained Allegory, nor the Frothy Exuberancy of any wanton Wit, appeareth from two Divine Teſtimonies …
With rule
… Eſau did Jacob in Birth; this is before time. That this is no Broken-Brain'dBrained Allegory, nor the Frothy Exuberancy of any wanton Wit, appeareth from two Divine Teſtimonies …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 218 · Open in the reader