Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9982 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lordshippeslordship's

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

Puritas changed it: 55 times in 40 works
Consistency: 90.1% (55 of 61)
Reach if approved: ~64 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: lordships
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 61 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (55 changes in 40 works, 90.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 55)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Some will not ſticke to haue tvventy coats, tvventie houſes, tvventie farmes, yea tvventy LordſhippesLordship's, and yet goe by a poore perſon, vvhome they ſee in great diſtreſſe and …
With rule
… Some will not ſticke to haue tvventy coats, tvventie houſes, tvventie farmes, yea tvventy LordſhippesLordship's, and yet goe by a poore perſon, vvhome they ſee in great diſtreſſe and …
Henry Smith · The Poor Mans Tears Opened · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
5. Though Tythes and LordſhippesLordship's and manners in perticulers, bee not ordayned by Chriſt for the maintenaunce of Miniſters …
With rule
5. Though Tythes and LordſhippesLordship's and manners in perticulers, bee not ordayned by Chriſt for the maintenaunce of Miniſters …
William Bradshaw · The Unreasonableness of the Separation Made Apparent · Open in the reader
Printed
… in that ministerie. For that ware hath brought them in their plentifull possessions, their LordshippesLordship's, fatte benifices, and prebendaries, with in nmerable plesures els.
With rule
… in that ministerie. For that ware hath brought them in their plentifull possessions, their LordshippesLordship's, fatte benifices, and prebendaries, with in nmerable plesures els.
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
YOur LordshippesLordship's gentle humanitie toward all honeste and well-hearted men, and namely, towards me, since …
With rule
YOur LordshippesLordship's gentle humanitie toward all honeste and well-hearted men, and namely, towards me, since …
Robert Pont · The Right Reckoning of Years and Ages of the World · Open in the reader
Printed
… bleedeth to ſee the goodly leaſes that are drawen from Church-liuings, & the great LordſhippesLordship's that are gone from the Cleargie, and Cathedrall Churches, and peraduenture ſome other giftes …
With rule
… bleedeth to ſee the goodly leaſes that are drawen from Church-liuings, & the great LordſhippesLordship's that are gone from the Cleargie, and Cathedrall Churches, and peraduenture ſome other giftes …
Walter Travers · Defense of the Ecclesiastical Discipline · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſoules, and by their prayers, poſſeſsions of great revenew, farmes in the country, lands, LordshippesLordship's, and great ſummes of money. For which thing any word of the ſick man …
With rule
… ſoules, and by their prayers, poſſeſsions of great revenew, farmes in the country, lands, LordshippesLordship's, and great ſummes of money. For which thing any word of the ſick man …
Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 254 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that eache of them haue thrée orders: the firſt Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones: the ſeconde, LordſhippesLordship's, Vertues, Powers: the third Principalities, Archangels, and Angels. They adde in what they differ …
With rule
… that eache of them haue thrée orders: the firſt Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones: the ſeconde, LordſhippesLordship's, Vertues, Powers: the third Principalities, Archangels, and Angels. They adde in what they differ …
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 737 · Open in the reader
Printed
Your good LordshippesLordship's, most humble to commaunde, Arthur Goldinge.
With rule
Your good LordshippesLordship's, most humble to commaunde, Arthur Goldinge.
John Calvin · The Little Book · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith A13969

Printed
… is the chiefe cause, why hospitalitie decaieth so in our daies, especiallie in great lordshippeslordship's, which should bee as it were welheads to relieue the whole towne. Their rents …
With rule
… is the chiefe cause, why hospitalitie decaieth so in our daies, especiallie in great lordshippeslordship's, which should bee as it were welheads to relieue the whole towne. Their rents …
Francis Trigge · Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith · p. 311 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Ephesians A17705

Printed
… Saint Paule should say, that the diuelles are the principalities of the aire, the lordshippeslordship's and powers of heauen, and the princes of the world: for a man would …
With rule
… Saint Paule should say, that the diuelles are the principalities of the aire, the lordshippeslordship's and powers of heauen, and the princes of the world: for a man would …
John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · Open in the reader