Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9931 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

deprav'ddepraved

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

Puritas changed it: 84 times in 65 works
Consistency: 97.6% (84 of 86)
Reach if approved: ~90 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: depraved
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 (84 changes in 65 works, 97.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 84)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Although he burns in his deprav'ddepraved deſires,
With rule
Although he burns in his deprav'ddepraved deſires,
Jacob Cats · Self-Conflict · p. 99 · Open in the reader
Printed
… then the other Gentiles, vvho vvere not onely darkened in their understanding, but so deprav'ddepraved also in their affections, as to work all manner of uncleanness even with greediness …
With rule
… then the other Gentiles, vvho vvere not onely darkened in their understanding, but so deprav'ddepraved also in their affections, as to work all manner of uncleanness even with greediness …
Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
God's Image marr'd, his Soul deprav'ddepraved,
With rule
God's Image marr'd, his Soul deprav'ddepraved,
Benjamin Keach · Spiritual Melody · p. 328 · Open in the reader
Printed
… tedious to think a thought of your own greatest Concernments? Surely Man is strangely deprav'ddepraved to refuse this.
With rule
… tedious to think a thought of your own greatest Concernments? Surely Man is strangely deprav'ddepraved to refuse this.
Thomas Manton · Sermons on Psalm 119 · p. 930 · Open in the reader
Printed
… That the Spider can suck Poison out of the sweetest Flower: And so a deprav'ddepraved Inclination may do out of the best Sense. Poetry is not altogether a Picture …
With rule
… That the Spider can suck Poison out of the sweetest Flower: And so a deprav'ddepraved Inclination may do out of the best Sense. Poetry is not altogether a Picture …
John Tutchin · Poems on Several Occasions · Open in the reader
Printed
… it, the Loadſtone of it. And they that love not Goodneſs, ſhew themſelves monſtrouſly deprav'ddepraved.
With rule
… it, the Loadſtone of it. And they that love not Goodneſs, ſhew themſelves monſtrouſly deprav'ddepraved.
John Barret · Sermon Preached to the Society for Reformation · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which is common to all, but must needs owe its Birth either to a deprav'ddepraved, corrupted intellect, or at least to an unaccountable affectation of singularity, such as He …
With rule
… which is common to all, but must needs owe its Birth either to a deprav'ddepraved, corrupted intellect, or at least to an unaccountable affectation of singularity, such as He …
Thomas Gregory · The Doctrine of a God and Providence Vindicated · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… than a key to let us in. Thus perverse are the contradictions of humane deprav'ddepraved nature, which like our first parents take it unkindly, that God has reserv'd any …
With rule
… than a key to let us in. Thus perverse are the contradictions of humane deprav'ddepraved nature, which like our first parents take it unkindly, that God has reserv'd any …
Richard Allestree · The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety · p. 255 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Usefulness of Revealed Religion N02741

Printed
… than that there were in the Gentile World, none whoſe Minds and Conſciences were Deprav'dDepraved and Vitiated. And from this ſhort Account now given of it, 'tis evident that …
With rule
… than that there were in the Gentile World, none whoſe Minds and Conſciences were Deprav'dDepraved and Vitiated. And from this ſhort Account now given of it, 'tis evident that …
John Bulkley · The Usefulness of Revealed Religion · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… moral and perpetual Obligation? I am ſure it does if it be not utterly Deprav'dDepraved and Vitiated. And it being ſo, will not thy heart condemn thee for theſe …
With rule
… moral and perpetual Obligation? I am ſure it does if it be not utterly Deprav'dDepraved and Vitiated. And it being ſo, will not thy heart condemn thee for theſe …
John Bulkley · The Usefulness of Revealed Religion · p. 25 · Open in the reader