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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9818 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lifeslife's

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

Puritas changed it
322 times in 172 works
Consistency
83.2% (322 of 387)
Reach if approved
~408 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: life's
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
388 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (322 changes in 172 works, 83.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 322)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … and life, the true way to the true life: All other wayes, all other lifeslife's, have no truth in them, its but a cloud, a fancy, that men apprehend …
    With rule
    … and life, the true way to the true life: All other wayes, all other lifeslife's, have no truth in them, its but a cloud, a fancy, that men apprehend …

    Hugh Binning · The Sinners Sanctuary · p. 152 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … no ſtrength but in him. Or rather ſeeing godlineſſe hath the promiſe of both lifeslife's, both of this life, and the life to come, the firſt ſhall be firſt …
    With rule
    … no ſtrength but in him. Or rather ſeeing godlineſſe hath the promiſe of both lifeslife's, both of this life, and the life to come, the firſt ſhall be firſt …

    Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Seven Consolatory Psalms of David · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … her backe, she would as it were skip, and …t foure or fiue such lifeslife's, shee would remooue her selfe a great way, … once from an Altar, to the …
    With rule
    … her backe, she would as it were skip, and …t foure or fiue such lifeslife's, shee would remooue her selfe a great way, … once from an Altar, to the …

    Richard Bernard · A Guide to Grand-jury Men · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    §. 5. Of the meanes of lifeslife's preſervation.
    With rule
    §. 5. Of the meanes of lifeslife's preſervation.

    John Sym · Lifes Preservative Against Self-Killing · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Your follies, for this lifeslife's vncertainties:
    With rule
    Your follies, for this lifeslife's vncertainties:

    George Wither · Exercises Upon the First Psalm in Prose and Verse · p. 146 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Nor loosened till lifeslife's last day
    With rule
    Nor loosened till lifeslife's last day

    Henry Burton · Truths Triumph Over Trent · p. 110 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … therefore reſolued to ride on in the old road ſtill, I will not change lifeslife's and wayes with Iudah for all her godlineſſe and Religion. Thus queſtionleſſe, did Iudahs …
    With rule
    … therefore reſolued to ride on in the old road ſtill, I will not change lifeslife's and wayes with Iudah for all her godlineſſe and Religion. Thus queſtionleſſe, did Iudahs …

    Jeremiah Dyke · Two Treatises · p. 100 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … if the Law obliged one man to fulfill it twice over for the ſame lifeslife's time; once ſimply and in all its obligations, and another time for other ends …
    With rule
    … if the Law obliged one man to fulfill it twice over for the ſame lifeslife's time; once ſimply and in all its obligations, and another time for other ends …

    Richard Baxter · Catholic Theology Plain Pure Peaceable · p. 75 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (65)

16 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 49 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Lifes Preservative Against Self-Killing A13280

  • Printed
    LIFESLIFE'S PRESERVATIVE AGAINST SELF-KILLING OR, AN VSEFVL TREATISE Concerning Life and Self-murder; SHEWING
    With rule
    LIFESLIFE'S PRESERVATIVE AGAINST SELF-KILLING OR, AN VSEFVL TREATISE Concerning Life and Self-murder; SHEWING

    John Sym · Lifes Preservative Against Self-Killing · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … top, and in the Enſigne upon the Poup, the white and comfortable Colours of LifesLife's preſervation, having all her force and ordnance bent againſt Self-murder; to overcome and …
    With rule
    … top, and in the Enſigne upon the Poup, the white and comfortable Colours of LifesLife's preſervation, having all her force and ordnance bent againſt Self-murder; to overcome and …

    John Sym · Lifes Preservative Against Self-Killing · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    LIFESLIFE'S PRESERVATIVE AGAINST SELF-KILLING.
    With rule
    LIFESLIFE'S PRESERVATIVE AGAINST SELF-KILLING.

    John Sym · Lifes Preservative Against Self-Killing · p. 1 · Open in the reader

Exercises Upon the First Psalm in Prose and Verse A15636

  • Printed
    LifesLife's pretious liquors, plentiously distill.
    With rule
    LifesLife's pretious liquors, plentiously distill.

    George Wither · Exercises Upon the First Psalm in Prose and Verse · p. 143 · Open in the reader

A Spiritual Hymn A16534

  • Printed
    LifesLife's misgoverned raines,
    With rule
    LifesLife's misgoverned raines,

    Robert Boyd · A Spiritual Hymn · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    LifesLife's toyles shall trophees to Thee reare,
    With rule
    LifesLife's toyles shall trophees to Thee reare,

    Robert Boyd · A Spiritual Hymn · Open in the reader

The Last things A25250

  • Printed
    LifesLife's Leaſe.
    With rule
    LifesLife's Leaſe.

    Isaac Ambrose · The Last things · p. 1 · Open in the reader

The Personal Reign of Christ Upon Earth A25762

  • Printed
    … who died before this Kingdome begun, ſhall be raiſed from death, and live immortall LifesLife's and rule the World, whereas the Saints that live to it, and in it …
    With rule
    … who died before this Kingdome begun, ſhall be raiſed from death, and live immortall LifesLife's and rule the World, whereas the Saints that live to it, and in it …

    Henry Archer · The Personal Reign of Christ Upon Earth · p. 21 · Open in the reader

A Treasury of Divine Raptures A28161

  • Printed
    Conſider three things preſent; LifesLife's ſwift flood,
    With rule
    Conſider three things preſent; LifesLife's ſwift flood,

    Nicolas Billingsley · A Treasury of Divine Raptures · p. 164 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    LifesLife's crown is given to ſuch as perſevere,
    With rule
    LifesLife's crown is given to ſuch as perſevere,

    Nicolas Billingsley · A Treasury of Divine Raptures · p. 167 · Open in the reader

Harvest-Home A29933

  • Printed
    We claſp our Earth in LifesLife's expired date.
    With rule
    We claſp our Earth in LifesLife's expired date.

    John Bryan · Harvest-Home · p. 5 · Open in the reader

A Sovereign Antidote Against the Fear of Death A30678

  • Printed
    … pains of Hell, which muſt be indured by thoſe that deny their Redeemer for LifesLife's ſake? If thy Supper be ſharp, thy reſt will be ſweet: this conſideration made …
    With rule
    … pains of Hell, which muſt be indured by thoſe that deny their Redeemer for LifesLife's ſake? If thy Supper be ſharp, thy reſt will be ſweet: this conſideration made …

    Edward Bury · A Sovereign Antidote Against the Fear of Death · p. 17 · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

  • Printed
    … making my addresses by letters and otherwise, to the nearest Relations of those whose LifesLife's I have written. Such applications, have sometimes proved chargable; but if my weak pains …
    With rule
    … making my addresses by letters and otherwise, to the nearest Relations of those whose LifesLife's I have written. Such applications, have sometimes proved chargable; but if my weak pains …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Answer. Such Refferences are very sparing, only to avoyd Repetition in those LifesLife's, which I have formerly written at large, as, St. Dunstans, Cardinal Woolsey, Thomas Lord …
    With rule
    Answer. Such Refferences are very sparing, only to avoyd Repetition in those LifesLife's, which I have formerly written at large, as, St. Dunstans, Cardinal Woolsey, Thomas Lord …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 73 · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 A41688

  • Printed
    … idea of life, whereby the Life of God is eſſentially differenced from al other LifesLife's. For no created life can be ſaid to be the forme or idea of …
    With rule
    … idea of life, whereby the Life of God is eſſentially differenced from al other LifesLife's. For no created life can be ſaid to be the forme or idea of …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 306 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Genesis A56630

  • Printed
    … Plural Number, that God breathed into him Niſchmath chajim, the Breath or Spirit of LifesLife's, it plainly denotes not only that Spirit which makes Man breathe and move; but …
    With rule
    … Plural Number, that God breathed into him Niſchmath chajim, the Breath or Spirit of LifesLife's, it plainly denotes not only that Spirit which makes Man breathe and move; but …

    Simon Patrick · Commentary on Genesis · p. 37 · Open in the reader