Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9824 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

overwhelm'doverwhelmed

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

Puritas changed it: 120 times in 92 works
Consistency: 100% (120 of 120)
Reach if approved: ~126 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: overwhelmed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 120 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (120 changes in 92 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 120)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… thereby conſum'd), but alſo between us and God's Majeſty that we may not be overwhelm'doverwhelmed by the infiniteneſs of it: he lets it out as our capacity will bear …
With rule
… thereby conſum'd), but alſo between us and God's Majeſty that we may not be overwhelm'doverwhelmed by the infiniteneſs of it: he lets it out as our capacity will bear …
Thomas Jacombe · Sermons Preached on Romans 8 · p. 447 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in ſome Infants? Do they not go into the Water trembling and quaking, and overwhelm'doverwhelmed with fears, when they are plung'd over Head and Ears? So that though he …
With rule
… in ſome Infants? Do they not go into the Water trembling and quaking, and overwhelm'doverwhelmed with fears, when they are plung'd over Head and Ears? So that though he …
Francis Mence · Vindication of the Interest of Children of Believers · p. 126 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is available and successful. Is any afflicted let him pray himself; is any so overwhelm'doverwhelmed that he cannot well perform it, Let him call for the Elders of the …
With rule
… is available and successful. Is any afflicted let him pray himself; is any so overwhelm'doverwhelmed that he cannot well perform it, Let him call for the Elders of the …
Timothy Rogers · Practical Discourses on Sickness and Recovery · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
Which overwhelm'doverwhelmed the Iewish Commonweale:
With rule
Which overwhelm'doverwhelmed the Iewish Commonweale:
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · p. 195 · Open in the reader
Printed
Grief overwhelm'doverwhelmed my heart when I did ſee
With rule
Grief overwhelm'doverwhelmed my heart when I did ſee
John Bastwick · The Utter Routing of the Whole Army of All the Independents and Sectaries · Open in the reader
Printed
verse 12 The waters overwhelm'doverwhelmed their foes, not one was left alive;
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verse 12 The waters overwhelm'doverwhelmed their foes, not one was left alive;
Francis Rous · The Psalms of David in English Meter · p. 222 · Open in the reader
Printed
… gone with the Multitude of Devout Worshippers to the House of God, it almost overwhelm'doverwhelmed him, Psalm 42.4. So Jerusalem remember'd in the Days of her Affliction and Misery, all …
With rule
… gone with the Multitude of Devout Worshippers to the House of God, it almost overwhelm'doverwhelmed him, Psalm 42.4. So Jerusalem remember'd in the Days of her Affliction and Misery, all …
Timothy Cruso · Discourses Upon the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was a Captain, who by a cowardly, and unworthy fear of death, was so overwhelm'doverwhelmed with anguish, that a kind of bloody dew or sweat stood on all his …
With rule
… was a Captain, who by a cowardly, and unworthy fear of death, was so overwhelm'doverwhelmed with anguish, that a kind of bloody dew or sweat stood on all his …
John Flavel · The Fountain of Life · p. 287 · 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.