Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9799 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fir'dfired

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

Puritas changed it: 101 times in 71 works
Consistency: 92.6% (101 of 109)
Reach if approved: ~115 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: fired
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 109 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (101 changes in 71 works, 92.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 101)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
So ſuddenly, the body all is fir'dfired:
With rule
So ſuddenly, the body all is fir'dfired:
Anne Bradstreet · The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the mire, or a man to his wife. Fourthly, if they should be so fir'dfired and terrified away, that they durst never actually returne againe; yet even then lust …
With rule
… the mire, or a man to his wife. Fourthly, if they should be so fir'dfired and terrified away, that they durst never actually returne againe; yet even then lust …
Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 164 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Wind at her pleasure: in her occasion, who can turn her away? When fir'dfired with Lust, she ranges about swiftly, without a Rider to guide, and a Curb …
With rule
… the Wind at her pleasure: in her occasion, who can turn her away? When fir'dfired with Lust, she ranges about swiftly, without a Rider to guide, and a Curb …
William Bates · The Danger of Prosperity · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… too much ſlighting the Goſpel, want of bowels and compaſſion, incorrigibleneſs under judgments, houſes fir'dfired and pride not conſumed; falſeneſs in reſolutions, like Oxen moving with the touch of …
With rule
… too much ſlighting the Goſpel, want of bowels and compaſſion, incorrigibleneſs under judgments, houſes fir'dfired and pride not conſumed; falſeneſs in reſolutions, like Oxen moving with the touch of …
Stephen Charnock · A Supplement to the Several Discourses Upon Various Divine Subjects · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and rejected; as Souldiers that beſiege Cities uſe to caſt over the Walls their fir'dfired Granado's. (2.) Theſe are alſo grievous, as they ſet the Mind upon the Rack, and …
With rule
… and rejected; as Souldiers that beſiege Cities uſe to caſt over the Walls their fir'dfired Granado's. (2.) Theſe are alſo grievous, as they ſet the Mind upon the Rack, and …
Richard Gilpin · Satans Temptations in Three Parts · p. 312 · Open in the reader
Printed
In Autumn thwarts the night, when vapors fir'dfired
With rule
In Autumn thwarts the night, when vapors fir'dfired
John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader
Printed
… and extravagancy of their own paſſions have put their bodies into a combuſtion, and fir'dfired their ſpirits; and by ſtirring up their rage and choler againſt others have arm'd …
With rule
… and extravagancy of their own paſſions have put their bodies into a combuſtion, and fir'dfired their ſpirits; and by ſtirring up their rage and choler againſt others have arm'd …
John Tillotson · Sermons and Discourses Volume 1 · p. 160 · Open in the reader
Printed
Like powder in Granado's fir'dfired,
With rule
Like powder in Granado's fir'dfired,
George Wither · A Memorandum to London · p. 35 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.