Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9830 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

plutarchsplutarch's

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

Puritas changed it: 64 times in 54 works
Consistency: 100% (64 of 64)
Reach if approved: ~67 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: plutarch's
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 64 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (64 changes in 54 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 64)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… whelpes of dogges and apes, was their owne loue, it was not Caesars, or PlutarchsPlutarch's; great might it be to Caesar and Plutarch, meane to them; neither would they …
With rule
… whelpes of dogges and apes, was their owne loue, it was not Caesars, or PlutarchsPlutarch's; great might it be to Caesar and Plutarch, meane to them; neither would they …
John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 143 · Open in the reader
Printed
Your Senecaes and your PlutarchsPlutarch's have taught you an art, how to make profit of enemies, becauſe as flatterers …
With rule
Your Senecaes and your PlutarchsPlutarch's have taught you an art, how to make profit of enemies, becauſe as flatterers …
John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they do continue, and will so do, till Printing shall be no more: Witness PlutarchsPlutarch's and Melchior Adams, &c. Lives.
With rule
… they do continue, and will so do, till Printing shall be no more: Witness PlutarchsPlutarch's and Melchior Adams, &c. Lives.
Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… may ſpeak of himſelf, or any thing of his own, as of another. Vnder PlutarchsPlutarch's Apology, I will ſay I do believe this, that in this particular I am …
With rule
… may ſpeak of himſelf, or any thing of his own, as of another. Vnder PlutarchsPlutarch's Apology, I will ſay I do believe this, that in this particular I am …
John Humfrey · The Obligation of Human Laws · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… excellency of Speech, or of Wisdom. Not with Philosophical Notions, or Platonick Speculations, or PlutarchsPlutarch's Morals, nor with Rhetorical Flourishes, (verborum phaleris,) the trappings of words: No, not I …
With rule
… excellency of Speech, or of Wisdom. Not with Philosophical Notions, or Platonick Speculations, or PlutarchsPlutarch's Morals, nor with Rhetorical Flourishes, (verborum phaleris,) the trappings of words: No, not I …
Samuel Slater · Sermon before Shorter · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
PlutarchsPlutarch's report of the Gauls. p. 60.
With rule
PlutarchsPlutarch's report of the Gauls. p. 60.
William Strong · The Subordination of the Will of Man Unto the Will of God · Open in the reader
Printed
… brought in diſcourſing at large of this very thing in the laſt Treatiſe of PlutarchsPlutarch's morals, vvhereunto I refer the reader.
With rule
… brought in diſcourſing at large of this very thing in the laſt Treatiſe of PlutarchsPlutarch's morals, vvhereunto I refer the reader.
John Arrowsmith · A Chain of Principles · p. 133 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fearfully profanned, as if it had its name from the name Bacchus, which was PlutarchsPlutarch's conceit, that ſignifies to live jovially, as we ſay, and to ſpeud the day …
With rule
… fearfully profanned, as if it had its name from the name Bacchus, which was PlutarchsPlutarch's conceit, that ſignifies to live jovially, as we ſay, and to ſpeud the day …
Hezekiah Woodward · Christmas Day the Old Heathens Feasting Day · p. 25 · 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.