Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9947 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

enrag'denraged

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

Puritas changed it: 78 times in 55 works
Consistency: 96.3% (78 of 81)
Reach if approved: ~85 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: enraged
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 81 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (78 changes in 55 works, 96.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 78)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
By Pious Travel rous'd, enrag'denraged by Damping Wet:
With rule
By Pious Travel rous'd, enrag'denraged by Damping Wet:
Samuel Annesley · The Life and Funeral Sermon of the Reverent Thomas Brand · Open in the reader
Printed
… not do it in that thundring Rigor, which might have been expected from an enrag'denraged Soveraign, but in a gentle Examination, Haſt thou eaten of the Tree whereof I …
With rule
… not do it in that thundring Rigor, which might have been expected from an enrag'denraged Soveraign, but in a gentle Examination, Haſt thou eaten of the Tree whereof I …
Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 612 · Open in the reader
Printed
… its own Mother. And under this miſerable fruſtration, and deplorable diſappointment, its like an enrag'denraged man, who when he cannot be revenged upon the perſon, that hath highly affronted …
With rule
… its own Mother. And under this miſerable fruſtration, and deplorable diſappointment, its like an enrag'denraged man, who when he cannot be revenged upon the perſon, that hath highly affronted …
John Hickes · The Excellency of the Heavenly Substance · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he thought; His Asse gives back, crusheth his foot against the wall. He is enrag'denraged: Yet if his Asse had gone on, he had bin slain. For an Angel …
With rule
… he thought; His Asse gives back, crusheth his foot against the wall. He is enrag'denraged: Yet if his Asse had gone on, he had bin slain. For an Angel …
Peter Sterry · The Clouds in Which Christ Comes · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Covenant professing Jews, in Union of mind with evil Angels, were the most signally enrag'denraged Contradicters, Blasphemers and Murderers of him, for his Gospel-Doctrine of Salvation, Acts 3.13-15. The …
With rule
… Covenant professing Jews, in Union of mind with evil Angels, were the most signally enrag'denraged Contradicters, Blasphemers and Murderers of him, for his Gospel-Doctrine of Salvation, Acts 3.13-15. The …
George Sikes · A Wakening Call · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
The eld'ſt enrag'denraged did play the vipers part,
With rule
The eld'ſt enrag'denraged did play the vipers part,
Anne Bradstreet · The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America · p. 169 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it does commonly in a small time grow so insupportable, as to enforce the enrag'denraged Multitude by desperation, into conspiracles and attempts for their liberty (of which, History, both …
With rule
… it does commonly in a small time grow so insupportable, as to enforce the enrag'denraged Multitude by desperation, into conspiracles and attempts for their liberty (of which, History, both …
Charles Hotham · Corporations Vindicated · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a man prevaile. Nothing is able to stand before a fire which is once enrag'denraged. Now Gods displeasure is kindled, and breaketh forth into a flame against the sinnes …
With rule
… a man prevaile. Nothing is able to stand before a fire which is once enrag'denraged. Now Gods displeasure is kindled, and breaketh forth into a flame against the sinnes …
Edward Reynolds · Explication of Psalm 110 · p. 109 · 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.