Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9804 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

harden'dhardened

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

Puritas changed it: 188 times in 91 works
Consistency: 99.4% (188 of 189)
Reach if approved: ~199 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: hardened
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 189 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (188 changes in 91 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 188)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… I ſay to you (if any ſuch be here) that have hearts ſteel'd or harden'dhardened againſt God, who challenge God the field, and ſend defiance to heaven, O ſit …
With rule
… I ſay to you (if any ſuch be here) that have hearts ſteel'd or harden'dhardened againſt God, who challenge God the field, and ſend defiance to heaven, O ſit …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 8-10 · p. 168 · Open in the reader
Printed
… been sensible of it, unless they had been willfully blinded, or by long use harden'dhardened in it: So long, I say, as they are thus Impenitent in any known …
With rule
… been sensible of it, unless they had been willfully blinded, or by long use harden'dhardened in it: So long, I say, as they are thus Impenitent in any known …
John Kettlewell · Worthy Communicating · p. 118 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Lords of the Philiſtines were gone; had they ſeen this ſeverity, it would have harden'dhardened their Hearts more. Some Object here and ſay,
With rule
… Lords of the Philiſtines were gone; had they ſeen this ſeverity, it would have harden'dhardened their Hearts more. Some Object here and ſay,
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 232 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as these? And when the Papists see the weakness of these Allegations, they are harden'dhardened in their own ways; and cry out presently there is no end of Schism's …
With rule
… as these? And when the Papists see the weakness of these Allegations, they are harden'dhardened in their own ways; and cry out presently there is no end of Schism's …
Edward Stillingfleet · The Unreasonableness of Separation · p. 185 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Wonders were wrought in the ſight of Pharaoh and the Egyptians! yet they were harden'dhardened under all theſe Plagues. Balaam, who greedily followed the wages of unrighteouſneſs, was not …
With rule
… Wonders were wrought in the ſight of Pharaoh and the Egyptians! yet they were harden'dhardened under all theſe Plagues. Balaam, who greedily followed the wages of unrighteouſneſs, was not …
John Tillotson · Sermons and Discourses Volume 5 · p. 432 · Open in the reader
Printed
… out of order, the Head empty of saving knowledge, and the Heart dead and harden'dhardened in sin; not one word of God or Christ with delight and serious enquiry …
With rule
… out of order, the Head empty of saving knowledge, and the Heart dead and harden'dhardened in sin; not one word of God or Christ with delight and serious enquiry …
Samuel Hardy · A Second Guide to Heaven · p. 144 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God calls them, having their hearts harden'dhardened. For it is the nature of things harden'dhardened to be such intractables. And being so to that degree that Miracles, God's most …
With rule
… God calls them, having their hearts harden'dhardened. For it is the nature of things harden'dhardened to be such intractables. And being so to that degree that Miracles, God's most …
Richard Allestree · Forty Sermons · p. 209 · Open in the reader
Printed
… those who esteem it a Favour and Honour to Suffer for Christ. Some are harden'dhardened against Afflictions, and endure with Courage Persecutions for the Cause of Christ, but yield …
With rule
… those who esteem it a Favour and Honour to Suffer for Christ. Some are harden'dhardened against Afflictions, and endure with Courage Persecutions for the Cause of Christ, but yield …
William Bates · Spiritual Perfection Unfolded and Enforced from 2 Corinthians 7:1 · p. 231 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

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

Printed
… his good Mother; ſhe could better prevail upon her Tender Son, than upon her Harden'dHardened Husband, whoſe Pertinacy would not be moved at all by her Piety. His pious …
With rule
… his good Mother; ſhe could better prevail upon her Tender Son, than upon her Harden'dHardened Husband, whoſe Pertinacy would not be moved at all by her Piety. His pious …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 594 · Open in the reader