Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9838 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

rain'drained

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

Puritas changed it: 61 times in 50 works
Consistency: 89.7% (61 of 68)
Reach if approved: ~71 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: rained
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 68 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (61 changes in 50 works, 89.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 61)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the City of Rhodes: Give me leave to apply it to you, God hath rain'drained down golden ſhowers upon you. What mercies hath he enrich'd you with? what talents …
With rule
… the City of Rhodes: Give me leave to apply it to you, God hath rain'drained down golden ſhowers upon you. What mercies hath he enrich'd you with? what talents …
Thomas Watson · The Saints Delight · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſuppoſe they ſlept ſecurely that Night; but what came in the Morning? The Lord rain'drained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrha Brimſtone and Fire from the Lord out of Heaven …
With rule
… ſuppoſe they ſlept ſecurely that Night; but what came in the Morning? The Lord rain'drained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrha Brimſtone and Fire from the Lord out of Heaven …
Joseph Sewall · The Holy Spirit Convincing the World of Sin of Righteousness of Judgment · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… David is another. But its dire influence is sufficiently visible in that which it rain'drained down upon those Cities. Since it did fulfil the guilt of Sodome, and made …
With rule
… David is another. But its dire influence is sufficiently visible in that which it rain'drained down upon those Cities. Since it did fulfil the guilt of Sodome, and made …
Richard Allestree · Eighteen Sermons · p. 227 · Open in the reader
Printed
Converted the ſouth-Saxons; then there rain'drained
With rule
Converted the ſouth-Saxons; then there rain'drained
Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 160 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I do not inſiſt on, when there is a dreadful ſhower of Spiritual Plagues rain'drained upon a viſible Church; it is no wonder that ſome drops of it fall …
With rule
… I do not inſiſt on, when there is a dreadful ſhower of Spiritual Plagues rain'drained upon a viſible Church; it is no wonder that ſome drops of it fall …
George Hutcheson · Forty-Five Sermons Upon Psalm 130 · p. 217 · Open in the reader
Printed
2. From the abundance of it. He rain'drained down Manna for them for to …t.
With rule
2. From the abundance of it. He rain'drained down Manna for them for to …t.
William Nicholson · Davids Harp Strung and Tuned · p. 219 · Open in the reader
Printed
… from Kedar-laomer and his company could mend or melt the ſinnefull Sodomites. God rain'drained downe Hell from Heaven upon them. The Land of Shinar, where they built Babel …
With rule
… from Kedar-laomer and his company could mend or melt the ſinnefull Sodomites. God rain'drained downe Hell from Heaven upon them. The Land of Shinar, where they built Babel …
John Trapp · The True Treasury · p. 276 · Open in the reader
Printed
All night it rain'drained, next day the ſignes are ſeene,
With rule
All night it rain'drained, next day the ſignes are ſeene,
Petrus Ramus · Logic in Two Books · p. 40 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.