Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9938 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dispatch'ddispatched

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

Puritas changed it: 209 times in 131 works
Consistency: 94.1% (209 of 222)
Reach if approved: ~233 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: dispatched
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 222 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (209 changes in 131 works, 94.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 209)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Your buſines all ſhall be diſpatch'ddispatched, ſo that
With rule
Your buſines all ſhall be diſpatch'ddispatched, ſo that
William Gouge · The Saints Sacrifice · Open in the reader
Printed
And thus I have at length diſpatch'ddispatched the firſt General, What 'tis to ſtir up our ſelves in Religion; having ſhew'd …
With rule
And thus I have at length diſpatch'ddispatched the firſt General, What 'tis to ſtir up our ſelves in Religion; having ſhew'd …
Richard Alleine · A Rebuke to Backsliders and a Spur for Loiterers · p. 102 · Open in the reader
Printed
Having now diſpatch'ddispatched this firſt and greateſt Argument, That this Prayer is indeed the Prayer of the …
With rule
Having now diſpatch'ddispatched this firſt and greateſt Argument, That this Prayer is indeed the Prayer of the …
Thomas Beverley · An Exposition of the Lords Prayer · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Pope, that as ſoon as he had received the news of it, he diſpatch'ddispatched away a Nuntio to the Emperour, who was then in Spain, with orders to …
With rule
… the Pope, that as ſoon as he had received the news of it, he diſpatch'ddispatched away a Nuntio to the Emperour, who was then in Spain, with orders to …
Jean Claude · Historical Defense of the Reformation · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
Thus having dispatch'ddispatched the Doctrinal part, I now proceed to the Application, which I briefly intend to …
With rule
Thus having dispatch'ddispatched the Doctrinal part, I now proceed to the Application, which I briefly intend to …
Richard Davis · The True Spring of Gospel Sight and Sense of Sin · p. 156 · Open in the reader
Printed
… forth by way of Inference or Corollary, from that former Point, which we have diſpatch'ddispatched. I ſhall therefore accordingly draw forth Demonſtrations, of the dreadfulneſs thereof, from thoſe fore …
With rule
… forth by way of Inference or Corollary, from that former Point, which we have diſpatch'ddispatched. I ſhall therefore accordingly draw forth Demonſtrations, of the dreadfulneſs thereof, from thoſe fore …
Thomas Goodwin · Two Discourses · p. 116 · Open in the reader
Printed
Thus we have diſpatch'ddispatched the two general inquiries, and have deſcribed and demonſtrated unto you the Divine Providence.
With rule
Thus we have diſpatch'ddispatched the two general inquiries, and have deſcribed and demonſtrated unto you the Divine Providence.
Ezekiel Hopkins · Exposition on the Lords Prayer · p. 276 · Open in the reader
Printed
… call themselves to an account every evening, if necessity so requires, it may be dispatch'ddispatched at a few minutes warning. It is a thing which all men, even the …
With rule
… call themselves to an account every evening, if necessity so requires, it may be dispatch'ddispatched at a few minutes warning. It is a thing which all men, even the …
John Kettlewell · Worthy Communicating · p. 244 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A New Martyrology A63966

Printed
… these Brothers Correspondence with the Priest? wou'd they use such a word as that [Dispatch'dDispatched?—] Did they write to Ewers too, and bid him tell Dugdale, That this Sir …
With rule
… these Brothers Correspondence with the Priest? wou'd they use such a word as that [Dispatch'dDispatched?—] Did they write to Ewers too, and bid him tell Dugdale, That this Sir …
John Tutchin · A New Martyrology · p. 18 · Open in the reader

Brief Account of One Suggestion of the Romanist A87008

Printed
… he addes) prove things in his Schisme disarm'd (and as little in his Schisme Dispatch'dDispatched) and consequently that there is no heed to be given to that, which is …
With rule
… he addes) prove things in his Schisme disarm'd (and as little in his Schisme Dispatch'dDispatched) and consequently that there is no heed to be given to that, which is …
Henry Hammond · Brief Account of One Suggestion of the Romanist · p. 296 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as they called themselves, by that title of purity. Thus the Author of Schisme Dispatch'dDispatched is both by himself, and by me, and all others called S. W. and …
With rule
… as they called themselves, by that title of purity. Thus the Author of Schisme Dispatch'dDispatched is both by himself, and by me, and all others called S. W. and …
Henry Hammond · Brief Account of One Suggestion of the Romanist · p. 345 · Open in the reader

Judgment Begun at the House of God N01526

Printed
… has ſwept 'em out of this World, they ſhall appear in Chains, and be Diſpatch'dDispatched from the Divine Preſence, into Everlaſting Torments. All that are not Saved from their …
With rule
… has ſwept 'em out of this World, they ſhall appear in Chains, and be Diſpatch'dDispatched from the Divine Preſence, into Everlaſting Torments. All that are not Saved from their …
John Danforth · Judgment Begun at the House of God · p. 59 · Open in the reader

Sermon Preached on Execution of Indian Servant Katherine Garrett N03450

Printed
… to the blood of others. They must flee to the pit; They must be Dispatch'dDispatched out of the world in all convenient hast; There shou'd be no waiting till …
With rule
… to the blood of others. They must flee to the pit; They must be Dispatch'dDispatched out of the world in all convenient hast; There shou'd be no waiting till …
Eliphalet Adams · Sermon Preached on Execution of Indian Servant Katherine Garrett · p. 17 · Open in the reader