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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9882 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

penn'dpen'd

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

Puritas changed it
206 times in 140 works
Consistency
90.3% (206 of 228)
Reach if approved
~240 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: penned
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
228 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (206 changes in 140 works, 90.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 206)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … full. And therefore you ſhall find that the moſt excellent Pſalms that ever David penn'dpen'd, it was in his afflicted condition: There was a fulneſs of the ſpirit of …
    With rule
    … full. And therefore you ſhall find that the moſt excellent Pſalms that ever David penn'dpen'd, it was in his afflicted condition: There was a fulneſs of the ſpirit of …

    Jeremiah Burroughs · Four Useful Discourses · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ſoul thinks of God, and is troubled, (as was Aſaphs, when hee ſpake or penn'dpen'd the words of this Pſalm, as appears in the beginning, ver. 2.) then in that …
    With rule
    … ſoul thinks of God, and is troubled, (as was Aſaphs, when hee ſpake or penn'dpen'd the words of this Pſalm, as appears in the beginning, ver. 2.) then in that …

    John Durant · The Christians Compass · p. 58 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … yet God would awake for you; it is the Concluſion of Pſalm 58. which was penn'dpen'd for a Support againſt wicked Ruler's, that God would ſo viſibly ſtand up for …
    With rule
    … yet God would awake for you; it is the Concluſion of Pſalm 58. which was penn'dpen'd for a Support againſt wicked Ruler's, that God would ſo viſibly ſtand up for …

    Richard Gilpin · An Assize Sermon · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … purſuance of an Order, bearing date the 6. inſtant, for my peruſal of this Treatiſe, penn'dpen'd by Dr. Homes, and to report my opinion concerning the ſame, I certifie as …
    With rule
    … purſuance of an Order, bearing date the 6. inſtant, for my peruſal of this Treatiſe, penn'dpen'd by Dr. Homes, and to report my opinion concerning the ſame, I certifie as …

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … this, may, I suppose, deserve here to be considered. The Psalm was most probably penn'dpen'd after the quieting the rebellion of Absalom, in relation to his return to the …
    With rule
    … this, may, I suppose, deserve here to be considered. The Psalm was most probably penn'dpen'd after the quieting the rebellion of Absalom, in relation to his return to the …

    Henry Hammond · Paraphrase Upon the Books of the Psalms · p. 76 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … multitude of Inſtances of their Melodious Singing to God: Moſes, (as Mr. Wells obſerves,) penn'dpen'd the ninetieth Pſalm; and no doubt … he, and the Children of Iſrael, ſang it …
    With rule
    … multitude of Inſtances of their Melodious Singing to God: Moſes, (as Mr. Wells obſerves,) penn'dpen'd the ninetieth Pſalm; and no doubt … he, and the Children of Iſrael, ſang it …

    Benjamin Keach · Breach Repaired in Gods Worship · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … was a young Student in Diuinity at Erford, meeting with a booke of Sermons, penn'dpen'd by Iohn Hus, was inflamed with a desire of reading it thorow, that I …
    With rule
    … was a young Student in Diuinity at Erford, meeting with a booke of Sermons, penn'dpen'd by Iohn Hus, was inflamed with a desire of reading it thorow, that I …

    Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 157 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … imitate foreign, the Delphian Apollo, whose Oracles wore Two Faces under one Heed, and were penn'dpen'd like those Amphilogies that cheated Croesus and Pyrr… into their distruction: Or as if …
    With rule
    … imitate foreign, the Delphian Apollo, whose Oracles wore Two Faces under one Heed, and were penn'dpen'd like those Amphilogies that cheated Croesus and Pyrr… into their distruction: Or as if …

    Vincent Alsop · A Sober Inquiry Into the Reasonings of the Serious Inquiry · p. 52 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (22)

10 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Opposition to Errors of William Sherlock A25202

  • Printed
    … Black-Jaundies of Malice can find in Scripture? Or does he Fancy that we Penn'dPen'd the Scriptures, and therefore must lie at Stake for all the Incongruous expressions that …
    With rule
    … Black-Jaundies of Malice can find in Scripture? Or does he Fancy that we Penn'dPen'd the Scriptures, and therefore must lie at Stake for all the Incongruous expressions that …

    Vincent Alsop · Opposition to Errors of William Sherlock · p. 312 · Open in the reader

Vindication of the Faithful Rebuke to a False Report A25220

  • Printed
    … and searches him out with his Falsifications: The Reverend Fathers of that Synod, who Penn'dPen'd that Article were wise, and well knowing that the Phrase of Christ's dying in …
    With rule
    … and searches him out with his Falsifications: The Reverend Fathers of that Synod, who Penn'dPen'd that Article were wise, and well knowing that the Phrase of Christ's dying in …

    Vincent Alsop · Vindication of the Faithful Rebuke to a False Report · p. 47 · Open in the reader

The Journals of Parliaments A35827

  • Printed
    … touching the whole Order and Process of passing of Bills in the Upper House, Penn'dPen'd by H. Elsing Esq at this time Clerk of the same, this present year …
    With rule
    … touching the whole Order and Process of passing of Bills in the Upper House, Penn'dPen'd by H. Elsing Esq at this time Clerk of the same, this present year …

    Simonds D Ewes · The Journals of Parliaments · p. 18 · Open in the reader

Meekness and Quietness of Spirit A43344

  • Printed
    … unduly us'd, to draw it forth, and wrest it out of the hands that Penn'dPen'd it, in the first intention, for a few, that it might serve a further …
    With rule
    … unduly us'd, to draw it forth, and wrest it out of the hands that Penn'dPen'd it, in the first intention, for a few, that it might serve a further …

    Matthew Henry · Meekness and Quietness of Spirit · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … pleaseth God must not displease us: David was in a better frame when he Penn'dPen'd the 56 Psalm, the Title of which, some think, speaks the calmness and submissiveness of …
    With rule
    … pleaseth God must not displease us: David was in a better frame when he Penn'dPen'd the 56 Psalm, the Title of which, some think, speaks the calmness and submissiveness of …

    Matthew Henry · Meekness and Quietness of Spirit · p. 11 · Open in the reader

A Century of Sermons A43515

  • Printed
    … which came from heaven, Firſt inſtructed to write the Hiſtory of Antiquity before he Penn'dPen'd a Pandect of Laws for the uſe of Poſterity; leſt he ſhould raſhly proceed …
    With rule
    … which came from heaven, Firſt inſtructed to write the Hiſtory of Antiquity before he Penn'dPen'd a Pandect of Laws for the uſe of Poſterity; leſt he ſhould raſhly proceed …

    John Hacket · A Century of Sermons · p. 434 · Open in the reader

A Memorial Offered to John Williams A43532

  • Printed
    … by the Lord Buckingham's Mother. And theſe words are in the Manuſcript remembred before, Penn'dPen'd by Arch-Biſhop Abbot, That the Counteſs of Buckingham told the Biſhop of Lincoln …
    With rule
    … by the Lord Buckingham's Mother. And theſe words are in the Manuſcript remembred before, Penn'dPen'd by Arch-Biſhop Abbot, That the Counteſs of Buckingham told the Biſhop of Lincoln …

    John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 19 · Open in the reader

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

  • Printed
    … thinking Samuel was a Lyar in promiſing him the Kingdom, Pſal. 116.10, 12. which Pſalm David Penn'dPen'd upon this occaſion.
    With rule
    … thinking Samuel was a Lyar in promiſing him the Kingdom, Pſal. 116.10, 12. which Pſalm David Penn'dPen'd upon this occaſion.

    Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 304 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … not prevented. Thus God ſent from Heaven and ſaved him, Pſal. 57.3. which Pſalm he Penn'dPen'd on this occaſion alſo: Therefore was the place call'd [Selangh Hammalekoth] a Rock of …
    With rule
    … not prevented. Thus God ſent from Heaven and ſaved him, Pſal. 57.3. which Pſalm he Penn'dPen'd on this occaſion alſo: Therefore was the place call'd [Selangh Hammalekoth] a Rock of …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 304 · Open in the reader

The Life and Death of Reverend Edmund Trench A71133

  • Printed
    … but either on my own Obſervation, or from that ſhort Breviate of his duplicate page duplicate page duplicate page duplicate page Life, Penn'dPen'd by himſelf for his own uſe.
    With rule
    … but either on my own Obſervation, or from that ſhort Breviate of his duplicate page duplicate page duplicate page duplicate page Life, Penn'dPen'd by himſelf for his own uſe.

    Edmund Trench · The Life and Death of Reverend Edmund Trench · p. 99 · Open in the reader