Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9784 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dispos'ddisposed

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

Puritas changed it: 273 times in 166 works
Consistency: 99.2% (273 of 275)
Reach if approved: ~289 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: disposed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 275 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 166 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 273)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
But ah, alas Death hath diſpoſ'ddisposed it ſo
With rule
But ah, alas Death hath diſpoſ'ddisposed it ſo
William Whately · Prototypes · Open in the reader
Printed
Their siluer; or dispos'ddisposed into lesse glas,
With rule
Their siluer; or dispos'ddisposed into lesse glas,
John Donne · An Anatomy of the World · Open in the reader
Printed
Of rich materials ſhe diſpos'ddisposed
With rule
Of rich materials ſhe diſpos'ddisposed
John Batchiler · The Virgins Pattern in the Life and Death of Susanna Perwich · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… World will be an Indication what Sins indanger our Souls: The Young are strongly dispos'ddisposed to Pleasures, the Old to Avarice, the Healthful and Prosperous to Intemperance in the …
With rule
… World will be an Indication what Sins indanger our Souls: The Young are strongly dispos'ddisposed to Pleasures, the Old to Avarice, the Healthful and Prosperous to Intemperance in the …
William Bates · A Sure Trial of Uprightness · p. 115 · Open in the reader
Printed
… contrived and prepared on purpoſe for a ſurprizal into Miſchief and Deſtruction, and accordingly diſpos'ddisposed covertly into a Mans way and paſſage; or from what is naturally, uſefully, or …
With rule
… contrived and prepared on purpoſe for a ſurprizal into Miſchief and Deſtruction, and accordingly diſpos'ddisposed covertly into a Mans way and paſſage; or from what is naturally, uſefully, or …
Thomas Beverley · The Principle of Protestant Truth and Peace · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… an abſolute Soveraign, and pompous King. And beſides there was another thing that much diſpos'ddisposed and induc'd them hereunto, viz. they underſtood the great preparations which Nahaſh King of …
With rule
… an abſolute Soveraign, and pompous King. And beſides there was another thing that much diſpos'ddisposed and induc'd them hereunto, viz. they underſtood the great preparations which Nahaſh King of …
Samuel Cradock · The History of the Old Testament Methodized · p. 351 · Open in the reader
Printed
… simply nothing, as the first matter created was, or that, which was no way dispos'ddisposed to the production of such forms, as that matter was in respect of the …
With rule
… simply nothing, as the first matter created was, or that, which was no way dispos'ddisposed to the production of such forms, as that matter was in respect of the …
Francis Fuller · A Treatise of Grace and Duty · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a loathness to part. Especially as here, in this lower World, we are variously dispos'ddisposed, and cast into several mutual Relations to one another. Husbands and Wives, Parents and …
With rule
… a loathness to part. Especially as here, in this lower World, we are variously dispos'ddisposed, and cast into several mutual Relations to one another. Husbands and Wives, Parents and …
John Howe · Funeral Sermon for Margaret Baxter · p. 12 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

The Triumphs of the Reformed Religion in America A50170

Printed
… Illuſtriouſl… Endowing and Adorni…g of our Eliot, as well Qualify'd him for, as Diſpoſ'dDisposed him to, the employment wherein he ſpent about Six Decads of his years; which …
With rule
… Illuſtriouſl… Endowing and Adorni…g of our Eliot, as well Qualify'd him for, as Diſpoſ'dDisposed him to, the employment wherein he ſpent about Six Decads of his years; which …
Cotton Mather · The Triumphs of the Reformed Religion in America · p. 47 · Open in the reader