Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9860 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

unconcern'dunconcerned

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

Puritas changed it: 199 times in 133 works
Consistency: 98.5% (199 of 202)
Reach if approved: ~212 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: unconcerned
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 202 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (199 changes in 133 works, 98.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 199)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… way juſtly offenſive as to the buſineſs of ſeparation; not doubting (though I was unconcern'dunconcerned in the Original, of the diviſion) that Mr. D. hath too much cauſe to …
With rule
… way juſtly offenſive as to the buſineſs of ſeparation; not doubting (though I was unconcern'dunconcerned in the Original, of the diviſion) that Mr. D. hath too much cauſe to …
Thomas Grantham · The Fourth Principle of Christs Doctrine Vindicated · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with the whole body of Christ? I know no way you have to be unconcern'dunconcerned in such cases, as the matter of your humiltation (when they occur within your …
With rule
… with the whole body of Christ? I know no way you have to be unconcern'dunconcerned in such cases, as the matter of your humiltation (when they occur within your …
John Howe · Of Charity in Reference to Other Mens Sins · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… most of them to their prejudice, and judge of them, not as indifferent and unconcern'dunconcerned persons, but as they who desire to find Faults, and to pick out something …
With rule
… most of them to their prejudice, and judge of them, not as indifferent and unconcern'dunconcerned persons, but as they who desire to find Faults, and to pick out something …
John Kettlewell · Worthy Communicating · p. 272 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it: and all the perswasive Rhetorick of the Gospel, find us so stupid and unconcern'dunconcerned, that they can make no impression: all the avenues are so blockt up, that …
With rule
… it: and all the perswasive Rhetorick of the Gospel, find us so stupid and unconcern'dunconcerned, that they can make no impression: all the avenues are so blockt up, that …
Richard Allestree · The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
And therefore after all this oſtentation of Caſuiſtical learning, the Nonconformiſts are perfectly unconcern'dunconcerned, further than to clear up what he has perplexed in this matter, and in …
With rule
And therefore after all this oſtentation of Caſuiſtical learning, the Nonconformiſts are perfectly unconcern'dunconcerned, further than to clear up what he has perplexed in this matter, and in …
Vincent Alsop · The Mischief of Impositions · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and leave a Middle, in which they may meet one another, and wherein Perſons unconcern'dunconcerned in their Controverſies reſt: Upon which Agitations yet follow great Illuſtrations and Confirmations of …
With rule
… and leave a Middle, in which they may meet one another, and wherein Perſons unconcern'dunconcerned in their Controverſies reſt: Upon which Agitations yet follow great Illuſtrations and Confirmations of …
Thomas Beverley · A Catholic Catechism · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… notice of by the Inhabitants of the earth: Moreover if Gods Providence be not unconcern'dunconcerned in leſſer matters, and private perſons are under the ſhadow of his wings, moſt …
With rule
… notice of by the Inhabitants of the earth: Moreover if Gods Providence be not unconcern'dunconcerned in leſſer matters, and private perſons are under the ſhadow of his wings, moſt …
Nicholas Clagett · A Persuasive to Peaceableness and Obedience · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we shall demean our selves as carelesly, and be every whit as secure and unconcern'dunconcerned how we live, as tho we had never heard, or thought of any such …
With rule
… we shall demean our selves as carelesly, and be every whit as secure and unconcern'dunconcerned how we live, as tho we had never heard, or thought of any such …
Clement Ellis · The Folly of Atheism Demonstrated · p. 131 · 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.