Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9834 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pronounc'dpronounced

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

Puritas changed it: 184 times in 118 works
Consistency: 96.8% (184 of 190)
Reach if approved: ~200 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pronounced
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 190 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (184 changes in 118 works, 96.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 184)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… reason to be pleas'd with their revilings, they being his security againsts the woe pronounc'dpronounced to those whom all men speak well of, Luke 6. 26. But somtimes it happens, that …
With rule
… reason to be pleas'd with their revilings, they being his security againsts the woe pronounc'dpronounced to those whom all men speak well of, Luke 6. 26. But somtimes it happens, that …
Richard Allestree · The Art of Contentment · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as shall appear in the last day, when a decisive irreversible Judgment shall be pronounc'dpronounced, and immediately inflicted upon them before the World. When an Actor at Athens spoke …
With rule
… as shall appear in the last day, when a decisive irreversible Judgment shall be pronounc'dpronounced, and immediately inflicted upon them before the World. When an Actor at Athens spoke …
William Bates · The Four Last Things · p. 220 · Open in the reader
Printed
Anſw. So Great a Prophecy as This of the Revelation, that hath pronounc'dpronounced a Bleſſedneſs upon Them who Read, and who Hear it, Expects, All ſhould be …
With rule
Anſw. So Great a Prophecy as This of the Revelation, that hath pronounc'dpronounced a Bleſſedneſs upon Them who Read, and who Hear it, Expects, All ſhould be …
Thomas Beverley · The Christian Doctrine of the Day of Judgment · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Biſhop may be miſtaken, ſhall it be then from the Words of the Pope pronounc'dpronounced ex Cathedra? But that poor Tradeſman, and that Woman can neither know where to …
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… Biſhop may be miſtaken, ſhall it be then from the Words of the Pope pronounc'dpronounced ex Cathedra? But that poor Tradeſman, and that Woman can neither know where to …
Jean Claude · Historical Defense of the Reformation · p. 64 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Pope himselfe. He denied the Pope to be the Head of the Church, and pronounc'dpronounced him to be Antichrist: he confuted, and condemned his Doctrine about Bulls, Indulgences, &c …
With rule
… Pope himselfe. He denied the Pope to be the Head of the Church, and pronounc'dpronounced him to be Antichrist: he confuted, and condemned his Doctrine about Bulls, Indulgences, &c …
Thomas Fuller · The Dead Yet Speaking · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
Justice might indeed have siez'd on rebellious Man, and laid the pronounc'dpronounced punishment on him, mercy might have freely acquit him, and pardon'd all: But can …
With rule
Justice might indeed have siez'd on rebellious Man, and laid the pronounc'dpronounced punishment on him, mercy might have freely acquit him, and pardon'd all: But can …
Robert Leighton · Practical Commentary of 1 Peter Volume 1 · p. 443 · Open in the reader
Printed
… from the guilt of his Sin, and the ſentence of death which he had pronounc'dpronounced againſt himſelf; verſe 13th. The Lord hath put away thy ſin, thou ſhalt not …
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… from the guilt of his Sin, and the ſentence of death which he had pronounc'dpronounced againſt himſelf; verſe 13th. The Lord hath put away thy ſin, thou ſhalt not …
John Milton · Defense of the People of England · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be subject to Gods Curse? Who would not be afraid to hear the blessing pronounc'dpronounced, and have no share in it? Come then to the word for Grace, to …
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… be subject to Gods Curse? Who would not be afraid to hear the blessing pronounc'dpronounced, and have no share in it? Come then to the word for Grace, to …
Thomas Risley · The Cursed Family · p. 47 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Paradise Lost A50919

Printed
Pronounc'dPronounced among the Gods, and by an Oath,
With rule
Pronounc'dPronounced among the Gods, and by an Oath,
John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader