Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9796 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

favour'dfavor'd

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

Puritas changed it: 246 times in 161 works
Consistency: 99.6% (246 of 247)
Reach if approved: ~260 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: favoured
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 247 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: favor (1)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (246 changes in 161 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 246)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Some ſecret ſin is favour'dfavor'd ner'theleſs.
With rule
Some ſecret ſin is favour'dfavor'd ner'theleſs.
Benjamin Keach · The Glorious Lover · p. 232 · Open in the reader
Printed
In power and excellence, but favour'dfavor'd more
With rule
In power and excellence, but favour'dfavor'd more
John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader
Printed
… Why ſhould any one then ſlatter and fleſh himſelfe in an evill way, as favour'dfavor'd of God, becauſe he lives at eaſe in Sion , and feeles no want of …
With rule
… Why ſhould any one then ſlatter and fleſh himſelfe in an evill way, as favour'dfavor'd of God, becauſe he lives at eaſe in Sion , and feeles no want of …
John Trapp · Gods Love · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be more afflicted if under the displeasure of Heaven, or Wickedness more prosperous, if favour'dfavor'd by it? But this is such a monstrous incongruity, that unless we abolish the …
With rule
… be more afflicted if under the displeasure of Heaven, or Wickedness more prosperous, if favour'dfavor'd by it? But this is such a monstrous incongruity, that unless we abolish the …
William Bates · The Existence of God and the Immortality of the Soul · p. 203 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as walking amongſt the ſeven Candleſticks. Some of them were ſufficiently beſmear'd, but yet favour'dfavor'd with Chriſts preſence, and acknowledg'd for golden Candle ſticks. He ſharply reproves ſome of …
With rule
… as walking amongſt the ſeven Candleſticks. Some of them were ſufficiently beſmear'd, but yet favour'dfavor'd with Chriſts preſence, and acknowledg'd for golden Candle ſticks. He ſharply reproves ſome of …
Benjamin Bruning · The Best Wisdom Propounded · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it had pleased God to Order it so. As the Jews of old were favour'dfavor'd in this respect above all the Families of the Earth besides, so it is …
With rule
… it had pleased God to Order it so. As the Jews of old were favour'dfavor'd in this respect above all the Families of the Earth besides, so it is …
Timothy Cruso · Discourses Upon the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 136 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Durham at liberty in London; they being the two whom he makes so far favour'dfavor'd by the Parliament, as they scap't the Tower.
With rule
… Durham at liberty in London; they being the two whom he makes so far favour'dfavor'd by the Parliament, as they scap't the Tower.
Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Rulers; and they ſought to lay hands on him; in which regard, all that favour'dfavor'd him were in ſome likelihood of ſuffering for him. And here now in this …
With rule
… Rulers; and they ſought to lay hands on him; in which regard, all that favour'dfavor'd him were in ſome likelihood of ſuffering for him. And here now in this …
Thomas Horton · One Hundred Select Sermons · p. 36 · 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.