Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9894 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

abigailsabigail's

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

Puritas changed it: 72 times in 59 works
Consistency: 100% (72 of 72)
Reach if approved: ~76 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 72 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (72 changes in 59 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 72)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… bleeding Kingdomes: yea the Lord make your interpoſing for the Church, as proſperous as AbigailsAbigail's, and let the Kings anſwer be as Davids, 1 Sam. 25.31, 33, 34. Bleſſed be the Lord God …
With rule
… bleeding Kingdomes: yea the Lord make your interpoſing for the Church, as proſperous as AbigailsAbigail's, and let the Kings anſwer be as Davids, 1 Sam. 25.31, 33, 34. Bleſſed be the Lord God …
Samuel Kem · Sermon Before the Commissioners · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Meekness shameth anger; humility makes pride to hang down the head. Thus David by AbigailsAbigail's mildness, was stayed from the bloudy attempt which Nabals boisterous roughness provoked him unto …
With rule
… Meekness shameth anger; humility makes pride to hang down the head. Thus David by AbigailsAbigail's mildness, was stayed from the bloudy attempt which Nabals boisterous roughness provoked him unto …
John Ball · The Power of Godliness · p. 183 · Open in the reader
Printed
… serues to preserue the life or good estate of her husband and family, as AbigailsAbigail's did when shee gaue to Dauid: 3. that the necessitie of the receiuer requires present …
With rule
… serues to preserue the life or good estate of her husband and family, as AbigailsAbigail's did when shee gaue to Dauid: 3. that the necessitie of the receiuer requires present …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 188 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that some honour is due vnto the single person of the husband, looke vpon AbigailsAbigail's example, who bowed her selfe to the ground, when Dauid sent to take her …
With rule
… that some honour is due vnto the single person of the husband, looke vpon AbigailsAbigail's example, who bowed her selfe to the ground, when Dauid sent to take her …
Andrew Willet · Solomons Marriage · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Yet the conscience of his sinne, and the horror of the danger which (by AbigailsAbigail's narration) he perceiues hee had brought vpon himselfe, and his whole familie, by his …
With rule
… Yet the conscience of his sinne, and the horror of the danger which (by AbigailsAbigail's narration) he perceiues hee had brought vpon himselfe, and his whole familie, by his …
Stephen Egerton · Brief Treatise on Proverbs 11:22 · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… poore ſervants come tell you, evill will come upon us therefore; you are ou… AbigailsAbigail's, haſt, for as the Lord liveth except you haſt wee may feare little will …
With rule
… poore ſervants come tell you, evill will come upon us therefore; you are ou… AbigailsAbigail's, haſt, for as the Lord liveth except you haſt wee may feare little will …
Samuel Fairclough Sr · The Troublers Troubled · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… can take a leaſe of their lives. But Nabals wealth had undone him, if AbigailsAbigail's wiſdome had not interpoſed: And in the other life, money bears no maſtery. Adam …
With rule
… can take a leaſe of their lives. But Nabals wealth had undone him, if AbigailsAbigail's wiſdome had not interpoſed: And in the other life, money bears no maſtery. Adam …
John Trapp · Commentary on Prov Ecc SoS Isa Jer Lam Eze Dan · p. 264 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for it. David bleſſes God for preſerving him from the ſinne of murther upon AbigailsAbigail's perſwaſion. Vid. 1 Samuel 25. 32, 33. And there is very great reaſon for it, For
With rule
… for it. David bleſſes God for preſerving him from the ſinne of murther upon AbigailsAbigail's perſwaſion. Vid. 1 Samuel 25. 32, 33. And there is very great reaſon for it, For
Ralph Robinson · Christ All and in All · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.