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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9937 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

disorder'ddisordered

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

Puritas changed it
87 times in 72 works
Consistency
98.8% (87 of 88)
Reach if approved
~92 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: disordered
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
88 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (87 changes in 72 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 87)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Conversation was unstained: He was not swell'd with Pride, nor ruffled with Passion, nor disorder'ddisordered with Excess. And as to a judicious Eye, no Spectacle is more deformed than …
    With rule
    … Conversation was unstained: He was not swell'd with Pride, nor ruffled with Passion, nor disorder'ddisordered with Excess. And as to a judicious Eye, no Spectacle is more deformed than …

    William Bates · The Speedy Coming of Christ to Judgment · p. 88 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … againſt them by Lightnings, and Thunder, and Rain, with which he much diſtreſſed and diſorder'ddisordered them, as David more largely relates, Pſal. 77.18, 19. Inſomuch that many of the Egyptians themſelves …
    With rule
    … againſt them by Lightnings, and Thunder, and Rain, with which he much diſtreſſed and diſorder'ddisordered them, as David more largely relates, Pſal. 77.18, 19. Inſomuch that many of the Egyptians themſelves …

    Samuel Cradock · The History of the Old Testament Methodized · p. 107 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſhould confeſs the truth to my boſom Brother, my Heart is ſuch a confuſed diſorder'ddisordered piece, its Principles and ends lying ſo viel'd and hidden from my ſelf, that …
    With rule
    … ſhould confeſs the truth to my boſom Brother, my Heart is ſuch a confuſed diſorder'ddisordered piece, its Principles and ends lying ſo viel'd and hidden from my ſelf, that …

    Theophilus Gale · The Life and Death of Thomas Tregosse · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … have loſt my labour, or ſhall my juſt dealing with two of the moſt diſorder'ddisordered Miniſters in a whole Dioceſs (the obſtinacy and contempt of whom, eſpecially of one …
    With rule
    … have loſt my labour, or ſhall my juſt dealing with two of the moſt diſorder'ddisordered Miniſters in a whole Dioceſs (the obſtinacy and contempt of whom, eſpecially of one …

    Stephen Lobb · The Harmony Between the Old and Present Non-Conformists · p. 94 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … be ſo much alone; and I'll tell them the reaſon of it: 1. Becauſe the diſorder'ddisordered Humours of their Bodies alter their Temper, their Humours, and their Inclinations, that they …
    With rule
    … be ſo much alone; and I'll tell them the reaſon of it: 1. Becauſe the diſorder'ddisordered Humours of their Bodies alter their Temper, their Humours, and their Inclinations, that they …

    Timothy Rogers · Trouble of the Mind and the Disease of Melancholy · p. 381 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … meerly by thine own immediate acting, in or about him, or by ill humors diſorder'ddisordered in him, or infuſed into him, or by outward Agents or Aſſiſtances about him …
    With rule
    … meerly by thine own immediate acting, in or about him, or by ill humors diſorder'ddisordered in him, or infuſed into him, or by outward Agents or Aſſiſtances about him …

    Thomas Jollie · The Surrey Demoniac · p. 26 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … puniſhments, not ſins: in us they are both, for the tranſgreſſion of Adam ſo diſorder'ddisordered the whole frame of nature, that to this day there is a Schiſm in …
    With rule
    … puniſhments, not ſins: in us they are both, for the tranſgreſſion of Adam ſo diſorder'ddisordered the whole frame of nature, that to this day there is a Schiſm in …

    James Barker · The Royal Robe · p. 100 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … of Masters, they are generally careless how their servants behave themselves towards God, how disorder'ddisordered and profane their families are, and therefore never bestow any exhortation, or admonition, to …
    With rule
    … of Masters, they are generally careless how their servants behave themselves towards God, how disorder'ddisordered and profane their families are, and therefore never bestow any exhortation, or admonition, to …

    Richard Allestree · The Practice of Christian Graces · p. 326 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.