Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9926 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dalilahsdelilah's

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

Puritas changed it: 85 times in 76 works
Consistency: 100% (85 of 85)
Reach if approved: ~89 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 85 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 76 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 85)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Chriſt. Yet men are now become ſo tender, that they will not have their DalilahsDelilah's toucht, you may not come unto them, as the good Samaritan, with wine to …
With rule
… Chriſt. Yet men are now become ſo tender, that they will not have their DalilahsDelilah's toucht, you may not come unto them, as the good Samaritan, with wine to …
Francis Whiddon · A Golden Topaz · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and on the bed of carnall ſecurity, will not awake; if Sampſon be in DalilahsDelilah's lap, nothing but the Philiſtines will awaken him; when the Children of Iſrael came …
With rule
… and on the bed of carnall ſecurity, will not awake; if Sampſon be in DalilahsDelilah's lap, nothing but the Philiſtines will awaken him; when the Children of Iſrael came …
John Collinges · An Answer Made to an Open Challenge · p. 193 · Open in the reader
Printed
1 That sinne the more delightfull, the more dangerous it is; as Sampson in DalilahsDelilah's lap, the more pleasing the more pernicious: for as the eues they set vpon …
With rule
1 That sinne the more delightfull, the more dangerous it is; as Sampson in DalilahsDelilah's lap, the more pleasing the more pernicious: for as the eues they set vpon …
Thomas Taylor · The Practice of Repentance · p. 124 · Open in the reader
Printed
… art too young to leave thy drunkenneſs, thou art too young to leave thy DalilahsDelilah's, to leave thy Harlots; till at laſt hee cryed out, how long ſhall I …
With rule
… art too young to leave thy drunkenneſs, thou art too young to leave thy DalilahsDelilah's, to leave thy Harlots; till at laſt hee cryed out, how long ſhall I …
Thomas Brooks · Apples of Gold · p. 120 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they are not to be diſcouraged: Thou haſt not betrayed thy ſtrength to theſe DalilahsDelilah's all the while: Yea, from theſe ſpiritual exerciſes and conflicts, thou wilt increaſe thy …
With rule
… they are not to be diſcouraged: Thou haſt not betrayed thy ſtrength to theſe DalilahsDelilah's all the while: Yea, from theſe ſpiritual exerciſes and conflicts, thou wilt increaſe thy …
Anthony Burgess · A Treatise of Original Sin · p. 469 · Open in the reader
Printed
… from this root, and it carries an elegant alluſion to the qualities of all DalilahsDelilah's, or inſinuating laſcivious women, they drayne the ſtrength, exhauſt the purſes, dry up the …
With rule
… from this root, and it carries an elegant alluſion to the qualities of all DalilahsDelilah's, or inſinuating laſcivious women, they drayne the ſtrength, exhauſt the purſes, dry up the …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 4-7 · p. 303 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this preſent life. Theſe are the great Lullabyes of the Soul. Theſe are the DalilahsDelilah's in whoſe laps we fall aſleep, until we loſe our ſtrength, and become as …
With rule
… this preſent life. Theſe are the great Lullabyes of the Soul. Theſe are the DalilahsDelilah's in whoſe laps we fall aſleep, until we loſe our ſtrength, and become as …
John Ryther · A Plat for Mariners · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bosome, but not of Dives his doore. But let none think to live in DalilahsDelilah's lap, and then to rest in Abraham; bosome, to dance with the Devill all …
With rule
… bosome, but not of Dives his doore. But let none think to live in DalilahsDelilah's lap, and then to rest in Abraham; bosome, to dance with the Devill all …
John Trapp · Commentary on the Gospels and Acts · p. 84 · 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.