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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9956 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

gentlemansgentleman's

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

Puritas changed it
266 times in 159 works
Consistency
91.1% (266 of 292)
Reach if approved
~307 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: gentleman's
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
292 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (266 changes in 159 works, 91.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 266)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … in such an employment, much lesse will Idlenesse and Negligence: It should be every GentlemansGentleman's care in his Youth to give and resigne himselfe wholy up with all his …
    With rule
    … in such an employment, much lesse will Idlenesse and Negligence: It should be every GentlemansGentleman's care in his Youth to give and resigne himselfe wholy up with all his …

    Clement Ellis · The Gentile Sinner · p. 259 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    You minde me of a GentlemansGentleman's finding a Picture in the shop of a Country-Painter, whom he mistook for …
    With rule
    You minde me of a GentlemansGentleman's finding a Picture in the shop of a Country-Painter, whom he mistook for …

    Thomas Fuller · A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine · p. 188 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … riot, idlenes, and, by your leaue, chambering is thy repast: thou déemest it a GentlemansGentleman's lyfe to spend whole dayes, and yeares in dauncing, drincking, dicing, hunting, in foolish …
    With rule
    … riot, idlenes, and, by your leaue, chambering is thy repast: thou déemest it a GentlemansGentleman's lyfe to spend whole dayes, and yeares in dauncing, drincking, dicing, hunting, in foolish …

    John Foxe · Christ Jesus Triumphant · p. 9 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    ¶These are the orders which I haue sene obserued in a Christian GentlemansGentleman's house, to the profit of his houshold, example of others, cōfort of Gods childrē …
    With rule
    ¶These are the orders which I haue sene obserued in a Christian GentlemansGentleman's house, to the profit of his houshold, example of others, cōfort of Gods childrē …

    Robert Openshaw · Short Questions And Answers Containing The Sum Of Christian Religion · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Ans. Now we must looke vnto the GentlemansGentleman's fingers: There were three corruptions in the text of S. Iohn: here is one …
    With rule
    Ans. Now we must looke vnto the GentlemansGentleman's fingers: There were three corruptions in the text of S. Iohn: here is one …

    Anthony Wotton · Defense of Perkins Book Called a Reformed Catholic · p. 412 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … great as to endure the severe Scrutiny of Gods Iustice, we might purchase this GentlemansGentleman's favour: But the Gospel has taught us otherwise, Rom. 3. 10. That there is none righteous …
    With rule
    … great as to endure the severe Scrutiny of Gods Iustice, we might purchase this GentlemansGentleman's favour: But the Gospel has taught us otherwise, Rom. 3. 10. That there is none righteous …

    Vincent Alsop · Opposition to Errors of William Sherlock · p. 230 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the Popes Authority against the Queen, was executed at Launston in Cornwall, and the GentlemansGentleman's goods that harboured him confiscate, and himself adjudged to perpetuall Imprisonment. In her three …
    With rule
    … the Popes Authority against the Queen, was executed at Launston in Cornwall, and the GentlemansGentleman's goods that harboured him confiscate, and himself adjudged to perpetuall Imprisonment. In her three …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 113 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Bloudhound Rory Macqueere, at the beginning of the Rebellion, who came into an Engliſh GentlemansGentleman's houſe, and found him in his bed, and there began to cruciate and torture …
    With rule
    … Bloudhound Rory Macqueere, at the beginning of the Rebellion, who came into an Engliſh GentlemansGentleman's houſe, and found him in his bed, and there began to cruciate and torture …

    James Cranford · The Tears of Ireland · p. 61 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (26)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 21 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Theater of Gods Judgments A27163

  • Printed
    … the magistrates; but they being forestalled with a present from the murderer, of the gentlemansgentleman's horse, which was of great value, made no inquisition into the matter, but said …
    With rule
    … the magistrates; but they being forestalled with a present from the murderer, of the gentlemansgentleman's horse, which was of great value, made no inquisition into the matter, but said …

    Thomas Beard · The Theater of Gods Judgments · p. 204 · Open in the reader

A Mirror both for Saints and Sinners A33339

  • Printed
    The same year one John Bone of Elie, a gentlemansgentleman's Coachman, being exceedingly given to swearing, and drunkennesse, drinking himself drunk on a Sabbath …
    With rule
    The same year one John Bone of Elie, a gentlemansgentleman's Coachman, being exceedingly given to swearing, and drunkennesse, drinking himself drunk on a Sabbath …

    Samuel Clarke · A Mirror both for Saints and Sinners · p. 95 · Open in the reader

Twenty-Nine Sermons A41140

  • Printed
    … throne of grace, he will have it. Even as a begger being at a gentlemansgentleman's door, they bidding him be gone, there is nothing to be had: nay, ſayes …
    With rule
    … throne of grace, he will have it. Even as a begger being at a gentlemansgentleman's door, they bidding him be gone, there is nothing to be had: nay, ſayes …

    William Fenner · Twenty-Nine Sermons · p. 164 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Importunate prayer is the only faithfull prayer. A begger never …es away from a gentlemansgentleman's door, ſo long as he believes he ſhall have …alms: ſo, as long as …
    With rule
    … Importunate prayer is the only faithfull prayer. A begger never …es away from a gentlemansgentleman's door, ſo long as he believes he ſhall have …alms: ſo, as long as …

    William Fenner · Twenty-Nine Sermons · Open in the reader

A Reply to the Catholic Gentlemans Answer A45460

  • Printed
    A REPLY TO THE CATHOLICK GENTLEMANSGENTLEMAN'S ANSWER TO The moſt materiall parts of the Booke of SCHISME. Whereto is annexed …
    With rule
    A REPLY TO THE CATHOLICK GENTLEMANSGENTLEMAN'S ANSWER TO The moſt materiall parts of the Booke of SCHISME. Whereto is annexed …

    Henry Hammond · A Reply to the Catholic Gentlemans Answer · Open in the reader