Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9814 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

iustiniansjustinian's

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

Puritas changed it: 66 times in 37 works
Consistency: 100% (66 of 66)
Reach if approved: ~69 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: justinians
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 66 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (66 changes in 37 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 66)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… for all the Chriſtians in that great and famous City, where I read in IuſtiniansJustinian's time, there were ſixty miniſters. But this is the plaine trueth, it was vſed …
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… for all the Chriſtians in that great and famous City, where I read in IuſtiniansJustinian's time, there were ſixty miniſters. But this is the plaine trueth, it was vſed …
Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · p. 325 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of these apostolicall seaes, Rome was not the first in order (as appeareth) till IustiniansJustinian's daies. And here we may marke, how his sea by little and little, crept …
With rule
… of these apostolicall seaes, Rome was not the first in order (as appeareth) till IustiniansJustinian's daies. And here we may marke, how his sea by little and little, crept …
Francis Trigge · Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith · p. 284 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of truth, the Popes approbation, as well as he, and thus much better, That IuſtiniansJustinian's never were, but Bellarmines books have been threatned by the Inquiſition, And Iuſtinian never …
With rule
… of truth, the Popes approbation, as well as he, and thus much better, That IuſtiniansJustinian's never were, but Bellarmines books have been threatned by the Inquiſition, And Iuſtinian never …
John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 793 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their inuestitures to the Emperour, as to their Prince, as we may see by IustiniansJustinian's Authentickes 123. cap. 3. The Emperour Constantine le Barbu, released this tribute to Pope Agathon, anno. 679.
With rule
… their inuestitures to the Emperour, as to their Prince, as we may see by IustiniansJustinian's Authentickes 123. cap. 3. The Emperour Constantine le Barbu, released this tribute to Pope Agathon, anno. 679.
Peter du Moulin Jr · The Buckler of the Faith · p. 545 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we finde, that Heliogabalus first wore such silk clothes in Rome; and that in IustiniansJustinian's time (some five hundred years after Christ) silke-wormes by some Monkes were first …
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… we finde, that Heliogabalus first wore such silk clothes in Rome; and that in IustiniansJustinian's time (some five hundred years after Christ) silke-wormes by some Monkes were first …
Thomas Fuller · A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… They who meet then with the name Archisynagogues, either in Lampridius, Vopiscus, Codex Theodosii, IustiniansJustinian's Novels, in all whom it occurs, and in some places as distinct from Presbyters …
With rule
… They who meet then with the name Archisynagogues, either in Lampridius, Vopiscus, Codex Theodosii, IustiniansJustinian's Novels, in all whom it occurs, and in some places as distinct from Presbyters …
Edward Stillingfleet · A Weapon-Salve for the Churchs Wounds · p. 248 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hand, by comparing the words of Iulianus Antecessor, even now vouched, with these in IustiniansJustinian's Novel, both speaking of the very same thing, and one expressing it by foreign, locum …
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… hand, by comparing the words of Iulianus Antecessor, even now vouched, with these in IustiniansJustinian's Novel, both speaking of the very same thing, and one expressing it by foreign, locum …
Henry Hammond · The Disarmers Dexterities Examined · p. 119 · Open in the reader
Printed
… foren Realmes, he become a forren at home. To this ciuyle knowledge alſo belong IuſtiniansJustinian's inſtitutions, the Pandects, and the whole courſe of the ciuyle lawe. And bothe all …
With rule
… foren Realmes, he become a forren at home. To this ciuyle knowledge alſo belong IuſtiniansJustinian's inſtitutions, the Pandects, and the whole courſe of the ciuyle lawe. And bothe all …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · 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.