Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9789 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

endeavour'dendeavor'd

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

Puritas changed it: 406 times in 225 works
Consistency: 100% (406 of 406)
Reach if approved: ~427 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: endeavoured
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 406 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (406 changes in 225 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 406)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… we have found it necessary to ascribe. Our own Minds to be suspected. And endeavour'dendeavor'd with to the utmost, before we conclude what is, or is not to be …
With rule
… we have found it necessary to ascribe. Our own Minds to be suspected. And endeavour'dendeavor'd with to the utmost, before we conclude what is, or is not to be …
John Howe · Gods Prescience of the Sins of Men Reconciled with the His Counsels · Open in the reader
Printed
And thus I have endeavour'dendeavor'd to give some Account of this Excellent Person, and to lay out some of …
With rule
And thus I have endeavour'dendeavor'd to give some Account of this Excellent Person, and to lay out some of …
John Kettlewell · Funeral Sermon for Lady Frances Digby · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Wits, or become honeſt? Have you not long tried him, and have you not endeavour'dendeavor'd to cure him of his Idleneſs, wickedneſs or luſt? If it be not done …
With rule
… Wits, or become honeſt? Have you not long tried him, and have you not endeavour'dendeavor'd to cure him of his Idleneſs, wickedneſs or luſt? If it be not done …
Richard Baxter · How to Do Good to Many · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
3. This ſhall be Endeavour'dEndeavor'd to be made out, That in ſuch a Caſe there may be found in …
With rule
3. This ſhall be Endeavour'dEndeavor'd to be made out, That in ſuch a Caſe there may be found in …
Thomas Beverley · The Good Hope Through Grace · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
Endeavour'dEndeavor'd to administer Relief:
With rule
Endeavour'dEndeavor'd to administer Relief:
John Bunyan · Scriptural Poems · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the corrupt humors and diſpoſitions of men; but he preached the truth ſincerely, and endeavour'dendeavor'd to approve himſelf to the Conſciences of all thoſe, who would judg underſtandingly and …
With rule
… the corrupt humors and diſpoſitions of men; but he preached the truth ſincerely, and endeavour'dendeavor'd to approve himſelf to the Conſciences of all thoſe, who would judg underſtandingly and …
Samuel Cradock · The Apostolical History · p. 199 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with good reason were esteem d the best of men; I mean such as endeavour'dendeavor'd to do the World most good; who lived virtuously, and justly, and did what …
With rule
… with good reason were esteem d the best of men; I mean such as endeavour'dendeavor'd to do the World most good; who lived virtuously, and justly, and did what …
Clement Ellis · The Folly of Atheism Demonstrated · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Grand-Children do their duty to Marbecks Concordance, as their Parent at first endeavour'dendeavor'd in our Language.
With rule
… and Grand-Children do their duty to Marbecks Concordance, as their Parent at first endeavour'dendeavor'd in our Language.
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · 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.