Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9786 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dream'ddreamed

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

Puritas changed it: 167 times in 134 works
Consistency: 91.7% (167 of 182)
Reach if approved: ~191 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: dreamed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 182 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (167 changes in 134 works, 91.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 167)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… expound the ſoul confound it more. If they had ſtept with Endymion, they had dream'ddreamed more pleaſantly. Butthen the Eye of the Mind ſhall know no humour but Chryſtalline …
With rule
… expound the ſoul confound it more. If they had ſtept with Endymion, they had dream'ddreamed more pleaſantly. Butthen the Eye of the Mind ſhall know no humour but Chryſtalline …
Samuel Lee · The Triumph of Mercy in the Chariot of Praise · p. 171 · Open in the reader
Printed
Now as for New England, if the First Planters of it had dream'ddreamed that the very Situation or Climate of this Land had been crime enough to …
With rule
Now as for New England, if the First Planters of it had dream'ddreamed that the very Situation or Climate of this Land had been crime enough to …
Nicholas Noyes · New Englands Duty · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
They dream'ddreamed of Ghosts, & Graves, & sh…iekt, & wept.
With rule
They dream'ddreamed of Ghosts, & Graves, & sh…iekt, & wept.
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · p. 127 · Open in the reader
Printed
… actuall and perſonall preaching of the Apoſtles ouer all the world. But had they dream'ddreamed of this world which hath beene diſcouer'd ſince, into which, we diſpute with perplexitie …
With rule
… actuall and perſonall preaching of the Apoſtles ouer all the world. But had they dream'ddreamed of this world which hath beene diſcouer'd ſince, into which, we diſpute with perplexitie …
John Donne · Five Sermons 2 · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſufficiently conveyed my mind to you.] anſ. I would have done ſo, had I dream'ddreamed of your Printing it. But that I did not, appeareth by your grand Miſtake …
With rule
… ſufficiently conveyed my mind to you.] anſ. I would have done ſo, had I dream'ddreamed of your Printing it. But that I did not, appeareth by your grand Miſtake …
Richard Baxter · The Immortality of Mans Soul · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that great perſecuter of the Saints, that when his Mother was with child, ſhe dream'ddreamed that ſhe had in her womb, a Wolf with a fire-brand in his …
With rule
… that great perſecuter of the Saints, that when his Mother was with child, ſhe dream'ddreamed that ſhe had in her womb, a Wolf with a fire-brand in his …
Jeremiah Burroughs · An Exposition of Hosea 11-13 · p. 225 · Open in the reader
Printed
… perchance when they are born to this beauty, or have made it, or have dream'ddreamed it, they easily believe all addresses and applications of every man, out of a …
With rule
… perchance when they are born to this beauty, or have made it, or have dream'ddreamed it, they easily believe all addresses and applications of every man, out of a …
John Donne · Paradoxes Problems Essays Characters · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
1. Reality. It ſhall not prove a fools Paradiſe, a dream'ddreamed enjoyment: As a poor man that dreams he wallows, and tumbles in wealth, and …
With rule
1. Reality. It ſhall not prove a fools Paradiſe, a dream'ddreamed enjoyment: As a poor man that dreams he wallows, and tumbles in wealth, and …
John Hickes · The Excellency of the Heavenly Substance · p. 37 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (15)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Valentinus Gentilis – The Tritheist Put to Death In Bern A25775

Printed
… Numerical Essence. We, on the contrary affirm, That St. Ignatius never so much as Dream'dDreamed of any such thing, but taught that the foreign, or Word, was one and the …
With rule
… Numerical Essence. We, on the contrary affirm, That St. Ignatius never so much as Dream'dDreamed of any such thing, but taught that the foreign, or Word, was one and the …
Benedictus Aretius · Valentinus Gentilis – The Tritheist Put to Death In Bern · p. 96 · Open in the reader

A Memorial Offered to John Williams A43532

Printed
… Power, into this Rich Preferment. The Caſuiſts among all the Species of Simony never Dream'dDreamed of this, which may be called, Simonia Aleatoria, when a Gameſter is Inſtalled into …
With rule
… Power, into this Rich Preferment. The Caſuiſts among all the Species of Simony never Dream'dDreamed of this, which may be called, Simonia Aleatoria, when a Gameſter is Inſtalled into …
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 206 · Open in the reader

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

Printed
… him become a real Slave to thoſe that Buy him, and ſo diſappoint his Dream'dDreamed of Dominion: But more particularly, obſerve here,
With rule
… him become a real Slave to thoſe that Buy him, and ſo diſappoint his Dream'dDreamed of Dominion: But more particularly, obſerve here,
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 344 · Open in the reader
Printed
… implied a conſiderable time of his Sorrows and Sufferings, of his Impriſonment (which he Dream'dDreamed not of) muſt go before, his Seed-time and Harveſt muſt not be both …
With rule
… implied a conſiderable time of his Sorrows and Sufferings, of his Impriſonment (which he Dream'dDreamed not of) muſt go before, his Seed-time and Harveſt muſt not be both …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 356 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Thus God brought Joſeph through the moſt deſpicable Slavery into moſt High Advancement: He Dream'dDreamed of the latter, but never Dream'dDreamed of the former. Yet this was Gods method …
With rule
… Thus God brought Joſeph through the moſt deſpicable Slavery into moſt High Advancement: He Dream'dDreamed of the latter, but never Dream'dDreamed of the former. Yet this was Gods method …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 370 · Open in the reader
Printed
… moſt deſpicable Slavery into moſt High Advancement: He Dream'dDreamed of the latter, but never Dream'dDreamed of the former. Yet this was Gods method the more to commend his Mercy …
With rule
… moſt deſpicable Slavery into moſt High Advancement: He Dream'dDreamed of the latter, but never Dream'dDreamed of the former. Yet this was Gods method the more to commend his Mercy …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 370 · Open in the reader