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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9841 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

referr'drefer'd

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

Puritas changed it
442 times in 222 works
Consistency
99.3% (442 of 445)
Reach if approved
~468 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: referred
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
445 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (442 changes in 222 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 442)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … by all the Lords. 2. His late Majeſty, before my coming to the Seal, had referr'drefer'd the ſuggeſtions of the Clerk of the Hamper for this increaſe of Fees unto …
    With rule
    … by all the Lords. 2. His late Majeſty, before my coming to the Seal, had referr'drefer'd the ſuggeſtions of the Clerk of the Hamper for this increaſe of Fees unto …

    John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 94 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … man as this, the importance of his eternal salvation? And which is plainly here referr'drefer'd to, when we are required to endeavour the restoring of such as have been …
    With rule
    … man as this, the importance of his eternal salvation? And which is plainly here referr'drefer'd to, when we are required to endeavour the restoring of such as have been …

    John Howe · Funeral Sermon for Matthew Mead · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … were to be interpreted by Words, and Phrases by other forms of Speech, they referr'drefer'd themselves and their Writings to the Scriptures. Forasmuch as no one can speak better …
    With rule
    … were to be interpreted by Words, and Phrases by other forms of Speech, they referr'drefer'd themselves and their Writings to the Scriptures. Forasmuch as no one can speak better …

    Benedictus Aretius · Valentinus Gentilis – The Tritheist Put to Death In Bern · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Its Celebration to be by keeping it Holy: All theſe ſo principal Concernments are referr'drefer'd to the State of that Matter in the Old Teſtament, where every Thing is …
    With rule
    … Its Celebration to be by keeping it Holy: All theſe ſo principal Concernments are referr'drefer'd to the State of that Matter in the Old Teſtament, where every Thing is …

    Thomas Beverley · A Disquisition Upon our Saviors Sanction of Tithes · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the ſea, ſo died. Wherefore I finde it true, that every ſoul, i. e. referr'drefer'd to the ſubject-matter of this Vial, died. For, as Chemnitius ſaith, ſuch particulae …
    With rule
    … the ſea, ſo died. Wherefore I finde it true, that every ſoul, i. e. referr'drefer'd to the ſubject-matter of this Vial, died. For, as Chemnitius ſaith, ſuch particulae …

    John Canne · Truth with Time · p. 99 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Plowing referr'drefer'd to good actions, p. 45.
    With rule
    Plowing referr'drefer'd to good actions, p. 45.

    Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 4-7 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … only such as made a profession of faith; neither doth Brenwin, the other instance referr'drefer'd to in their quotation, baptize any other that is mentioned. But, saith Mr. Baxter …
    With rule
    … only such as made a profession of faith; neither doth Brenwin, the other instance referr'drefer'd to in their quotation, baptize any other that is mentioned. But, saith Mr. Baxter …

    Henry Danvers · Second Reply to Baxter · p. 75 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … him to pay for his breakfast. The pooreman denyed it, and the controversie was referr'drefer'd to the deciding of the next man that should passe by, which chanced to …
    With rule
    … him to pay for his breakfast. The pooreman denyed it, and the controversie was referr'drefer'd to the deciding of the next man that should passe by, which chanced to …

    Thomas Fuller · The Holy State · p. 181 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.