Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9854 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sway'dswayed

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

Puritas changed it: 116 times in 88 works
Consistency: 93.5% (116 of 124)
Reach if approved: ~130 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: swayed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 124 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (116 changes in 88 works, 93.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 116)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
And Scales by smallest Atomes sway'dswayed.
With rule
And Scales by smallest Atomes sway'dswayed.
Simon Ford · Londons Remains · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… best Opportunity of shewing their Affection to his Service, since therein they can be sway'dswayed by nothing else, and most readily Communicate, when he calls them so to do.
With rule
… best Opportunity of shewing their Affection to his Service, since therein they can be sway'dswayed by nothing else, and most readily Communicate, when he calls them so to do.
John Kettlewell · Worthy Communicating · p. 131 · Open in the reader
Printed
On his whole life, not sway'dswayed
With rule
On his whole life, not sway'dswayed
John Milton · Paradise Regained · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… him of his deserved Honour, but only to shew, that he was too much sway'dswayed by the Opinions then generally current among Herbarists, that different Colour or multiplicity of …
With rule
… him of his deserved Honour, but only to shew, that he was too much sway'dswayed by the Opinions then generally current among Herbarists, that different Colour or multiplicity of …
John Ray · The Wisdom of God Manifested in Creation · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Will of God as Commiſsions. If the Authority of God were that which ſway'dswayed him in his Negative, the ſame would move him to poſitive holineſs; for there …
With rule
… the Will of God as Commiſsions. If the Authority of God were that which ſway'dswayed him in his Negative, the ſame would move him to poſitive holineſs; for there …
George Swinnock · The Sinners Last Sentence · p. 188 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thoſe are the Men that make a mock at Religion, and ſhall we be ſway'dswayed and influenced in the greateſt Concerns of our immortal Souls by ſuch Men as …
With rule
… thoſe are the Men that make a mock at Religion, and ſhall we be ſway'dswayed and influenced in the greateſt Concerns of our immortal Souls by ſuch Men as …
Matthew Henry · Sermon on Acts 28:22 · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… give a Judgment: And it is obſerved, Their Brethren were at their Command; This ſway'dswayed no doubt in the Union of Iſrael in David: The Prophet Daniel was not …
With rule
… give a Judgment: And it is obſerved, Their Brethren were at their Command; This ſway'dswayed no doubt in the Union of Iſrael in David: The Prophet Daniel was not …
Thomas Beverley · An Apology for the Hope of the Kingdom of Christ Within 1697 · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
The greateſt Monarch never ſo much ſway'dswayed
With rule
The greateſt Monarch never ſo much ſway'dswayed
Edward Calver · Passion and Discretion in Youth and Age · p. 54 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

1 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.

The Purple Island A00977

Printed
Sway'dSwayed by the higher) she bore: her word, I rule obeying.
With rule
Sway'dSwayed by the higher) she bore: her word, I rule obeying.
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 123 · Open in the reader