Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9905 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

belong'dbelonged

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

Puritas changed it: 282 times in 163 works
Consistency: 98.9% (282 of 285)
Reach if approved: ~299 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: belonged
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 285 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (282 changes in 163 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 282)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… at all his pores, in his flagellation and thornes (to the Lord our God belong'dbelonged the issues of blood) and these expressed, but these did not quench his loue …
With rule
… at all his pores, in his flagellation and thornes (to the Lord our God belong'dbelonged the issues of blood) and these expressed, but these did not quench his loue …
John Donne · Deaths Duel · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
IV. The Apoſtles, quâ Apoſtles, never belong'dbelonged to any perticular Church. Authority in the name of Chriſt they had in, and …
With rule
IV. The Apoſtles, quâ Apoſtles, never belong'dbelonged to any perticular Church. Authority in the name of Chriſt they had in, and …
Richard Baxter · Gospel Churches a Standing Ordinance · p. 112 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with this prerogative above the Reſt, [To you it is given] i. e. It belong'dbelonged to them by God's Donation and appointment: They are firſt Saints by Election, Then …
With rule
… with this prerogative above the Reſt, [To you it is given] i. e. It belong'dbelonged to them by God's Donation and appointment: They are firſt Saints by Election, Then …
Elisha Coles · A Practical Discourse of Gods Sovereignty · p. 168 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Text doubles it) God the Lord, yet to him, to God the Lord belong'dbelonged the iſſues of Death. Oportuit cum pati, more cannot be ſaid, then Chriſt himſelf …
With rule
… the Text doubles it) God the Lord, yet to him, to God the Lord belong'dbelonged the iſſues of Death. Oportuit cum pati, more cannot be ſaid, then Chriſt himſelf …
John Donne · Twenty-Six Sermons · p. 406 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Faith, which was the Condition of the Covenant of Circumciſion, as that Covenant belong'dbelonged to all that were circumciſed: Becauſe St. Paul tells us, whilſt the Law was …
With rule
… and Faith, which was the Condition of the Covenant of Circumciſion, as that Covenant belong'dbelonged to all that were circumciſed: Becauſe St. Paul tells us, whilſt the Law was …
Thomas Grantham · Truth and Peace · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
These Rich Endowments every way accomplish'd Her for all the Duties that belong'dbelonged to Her, whether in Her Christian, Conjugal, or Political Capacity. Which if we consider …
With rule
These Rich Endowments every way accomplish'd Her for all the Duties that belong'dbelonged to Her, whether in Her Christian, Conjugal, or Political Capacity. Which if we consider …
John Howe · The Much Lamented Death of Queen Mary · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… me, that it was the Outward Jew, and not the Inward only, unto whom belong'dbelonged that Advantage which the Jew is accounted to have above the Gentile, Rom. 3.1. that …
With rule
… me, that it was the Outward Jew, and not the Inward only, unto whom belong'dbelonged that Advantage which the Jew is accounted to have above the Gentile, Rom. 3.1. that …
John Humfrey · The Axe Laid to the Root of Separation · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… place is impertinently alledged, since many Presbyters are by all sides acknowledg'd to have belong'dbelonged to one Church, but if he speak of Bishops in the common Ecclesiastical sense …
With rule
… place is impertinently alledged, since many Presbyters are by all sides acknowledg'd to have belong'dbelonged to one Church, but if he speak of Bishops in the common Ecclesiastical sense …
William Jameson · The Fundamentals of the Hierarchy Examined and Disproved · p. 160 · 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.