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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9822 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

neroesnero's

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

Puritas changed it
138 times in 105 works
Consistency
97.1% (138 of 142)
Reach if approved
~149 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: nero;s
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
142 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (138 changes in 105 works, 97.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 138)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … not scrupled in the Provinces; so that the Souldiery was also the foundation of NeroesNero's Empire. Thus we see Rulers put by Souldiers into that power which is said …
    With rule
    … not scrupled in the Provinces; so that the Souldiery was also the foundation of NeroesNero's Empire. Thus we see Rulers put by Souldiers into that power which is said …

    Francis Rous · The Lawfulness of Obeying the Present Government · p. 2 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … foretold them) and also vppon Pilate which had condemned him: and lykewise vppon the NeroesNero's, domitians, Valerians, Maximies, Diocletians and such others as had persecuted his Disciples; the end …
    With rule
    … foretold them) and also vppon Pilate which had condemned him: and lykewise vppon the NeroesNero's, domitians, Valerians, Maximies, Diocletians and such others as had persecuted his Disciples; the end …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 610 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of that Description from Nero, whose tyrannie hee saw, and Uespasian (the reformer of NeroesNero's wickednesse) pulled downe the golden Head hee had set on the Collosse, and in …
    With rule
    … of that Description from Nero, whose tyrannie hee saw, and Uespasian (the reformer of NeroesNero's wickednesse) pulled downe the golden Head hee had set on the Collosse, and in …

    William Struther · A Looking Glass for Princes and Peoples Delivered · p. 179 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Sunne till noone, will ever be riſing. Fie on thoſe Apoſtates, whoſe beginnings, like NeroesNero's firſt fiue yeares, are full of hope and peace, and then decline into villany …
    With rule
    … Sunne till noone, will ever be riſing. Fie on thoſe Apoſtates, whoſe beginnings, like NeroesNero's firſt fiue yeares, are full of hope and peace, and then decline into villany …

    John Yates · A Model of Divinity · p. 259 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … another symptome and effect of the ayre. We read of terrible earthquak…s. In NeroesNero's time three Citties in Asia were overturned with one earthquake; in Vespasians time three …
    With rule
    … another symptome and effect of the ayre. We read of terrible earthquak…s. In NeroesNero's time three Citties in Asia were overturned with one earthquake; in Vespasians time three …

    Henry Burton · The Seven Vials · p. 142 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Tigellinus, one of the Captaines of NeroesNero's guard, and a chiefe procurer and setter forward of his tyranny, was the cause …
    With rule
    Tigellinus, one of the Captaines of NeroesNero's guard, and a chiefe procurer and setter forward of his tyranny, was the cause …

    Thomas Beard · The Theater of Gods Judgments · p. 385 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Legall conſtitution to doe what he liſt without the peoples conſent in the Senate, NeroesNero's cruelties were never with the peoples conſent, but ſayes Paul to the poore Saints …
    With rule
    … Legall conſtitution to doe what he liſt without the peoples conſent in the Senate, NeroesNero's cruelties were never with the peoples conſent, but ſayes Paul to the poore Saints …

    John Cook · Monarchy No Creature of Gods Making · p. 128 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … there have been, and will be ravenous wolves in sheeps cloathing, such as are NeroesNero's within, and Catoes without, such as according to the morall note, on that of …
    With rule
    … there have been, and will be ravenous wolves in sheeps cloathing, such as are NeroesNero's within, and Catoes without, such as according to the morall note, on that of …

    Nathaniel Hardy · Wisdoms Character · p. 22 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.