Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9865 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wip'dwiped

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

Puritas changed it: 85 times in 70 works
Consistency: 98.8% (85 of 86)
Reach if approved: ~90 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wiped
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 86 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (85 changes in 70 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 85)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and the reſt in Heaven: Then all Miſts as well as Tears ſhall be wip'dwiped from our eyes: Now we ſee darkly, we know but in part: Melius eſt …
With rule
… and the reſt in Heaven: Then all Miſts as well as Tears ſhall be wip'dwiped from our eyes: Now we ſee darkly, we know but in part: Melius eſt …
Robert Dingley · The Deputation of Angels · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… like looking-glaſſes; which being ore-ſpred with duſt, ſhew nothing: but if cleane wip'dwiped, repreſent things clearely. And as lines that are written with the juyce of limmons …
With rule
… like looking-glaſſes; which being ore-ſpred with duſt, ſhew nothing: but if cleane wip'dwiped, repreſent things clearely. And as lines that are written with the juyce of limmons …
John Trapp · Gods Love · p. 125 · Open in the reader
Printed
… why ſhould your eyes be pouring out tears for him, when all tears are wip'dwiped from his eyes? he is with God and Chriſt, and the innumerable company of …
With rule
… why ſhould your eyes be pouring out tears for him, when all tears are wip'dwiped from his eyes? he is with God and Chriſt, and the innumerable company of …
Robert Bragge · Life and Death of the Godly Man Exemplified · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Bane and Poyſon; and ſhew, that if they be but a little ſcraped and wip'dwiped from the Dirt and Filth, which he and his ſlovenly Apothecary hath put upon …
With rule
… Bane and Poyſon; and ſhew, that if they be but a little ſcraped and wip'dwiped from the Dirt and Filth, which he and his ſlovenly Apothecary hath put upon …
Isaac Chauncy · A Fresh Antidote Against Neonomian Bane · Open in the reader
Printed
… thee from all evils; ere long he ſhall come, and all tears ſhall be wip'dwiped from thine eyes, and there ſhall bee no more ſorrow, pain, or death; it …
With rule
… thee from all evils; ere long he ſhall come, and all tears ſhall be wip'dwiped from thine eyes, and there ſhall bee no more ſorrow, pain, or death; it …
William Greenhill · Sermons of Christ · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the work …f Conversion. We have now seen those Aspersions and Calumnies abundantly wip'dwiped away. But let that which has been the Vindication of New-England, be also …
With rule
… of the work …f Conversion. We have now seen those Aspersions and Calumnies abundantly wip'dwiped away. But let that which has been the Vindication of New-England, be also …
Cotton Mather · The Life and Death of John Eliot · p. 160 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be content to be Bum-fodder to your Reverence, by that time you have wip'dwiped your Breech with your Noſe, till you have worn it to the ſtumps, as …
With rule
… be content to be Bum-fodder to your Reverence, by that time you have wip'dwiped your Breech with your Noſe, till you have worn it to the ſtumps, as …
Samuel Shaw · The Different Humors of Men · p. 61 · Open in the reader
Printed
That which remains of my Design (having wip'dwiped off the Aspersions, or if that be too hard a Word, and calls to …
With rule
That which remains of my Design (having wip'dwiped off the Aspersions, or if that be too hard a Word, and calls to …
John Owen · Moderation a Virtue · p. 60 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

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