Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9983 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mark'dmarked

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

Puritas changed it: 136 times in 99 works
Consistency: 96.4% (136 of 141)
Reach if approved: ~148 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: marked
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 141 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (136 changes in 99 works, 96.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 136)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
But our Enquirer has mark'dmarked out some of the peculiar Glories of those Elder Times, and perhaps it may …
With rule
But our Enquirer has mark'dmarked out some of the peculiar Glories of those Elder Times, and perhaps it may …
Vincent Alsop · A Sober Inquiry Into the Reasonings of the Serious Inquiry · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Diviſion: Such a man hath the true Spirit of Schiſm, and is to be mark'dmarked and avoided, Rom. 16. 17.
With rule
… Diviſion: Such a man hath the true Spirit of Schiſm, and is to be mark'dmarked and avoided, Rom. 16. 17.
Thomas Beverley · The Principle of Protestant Truth and Peace · p. 105 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in darkneſs, is guided by God to ſeize only upon ſuch as he hath mark'dmarked out; and it never touches any one whom God will ſpare, though Thouſands and …
With rule
… in darkneſs, is guided by God to ſeize only upon ſuch as he hath mark'dmarked out; and it never touches any one whom God will ſpare, though Thouſands and …
Timothy Cruso · Twenty-Four Sermons · p. 314 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that we might be to the glory of his grace: Your everlaſting Father hath mark'dmarked you, and ſet his ſtamp and ſeal upon you, and put a principle of …
With rule
… that we might be to the glory of his grace: Your everlaſting Father hath mark'dmarked you, and ſet his ſtamp and ſeal upon you, and put a principle of …
John Fox · Time and the End of Time · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… him more; for which, I confeſs, he got no good name to himſelf. Lamb mark'dmarked the Revolution of the Times, ſaw the Biſhop diſcarded, and obſerv'd, that he might …
With rule
… him more; for which, I confeſs, he got no good name to himſelf. Lamb mark'dmarked the Revolution of the Times, ſaw the Biſhop diſcarded, and obſerv'd, that he might …
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 112 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Life, yet you see clearly that it is (not cut asunder indeed) but only mark'dmarked into four, whereof the two latter parcels are somewhat longer, more generally reaching a …
With rule
… Life, yet you see clearly that it is (not cut asunder indeed) but only mark'dmarked into four, whereof the two latter parcels are somewhat longer, more generally reaching a …
Robert Leighton · Practical Commentary of 1 Peter Volume 2 · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſcale, as I found by ſad experience. For having procur'd four Stones, the beſt mark'dmarked with thoſe figures of Antiquity I could meet with, and ſent them down to …
With rule
… ſcale, as I found by ſad experience. For having procur'd four Stones, the beſt mark'dmarked with thoſe figures of Antiquity I could meet with, and ſent them down to …
John Ray · A Collection of Curious Travels and Voyages · p. 150 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their own; the Royal Lyon will not devour all that the waſpiſh Jackcalls have mark'dmarked out for a Prey: If one party Accuſe, the other ſhall have liberty to …
With rule
… their own; the Royal Lyon will not devour all that the waſpiſh Jackcalls have mark'dmarked out for a Prey: If one party Accuſe, the other ſhall have liberty to …
William Tong · Defense of Brief Inquiry into the Nature of Schism · p. 160 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

2 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.

A Memorial Offered to John Williams A43532

Printed
… be heard upon thoſe particulars, which he had brought in Writing; which the King Mark'dMarked with Patience and Pleaſure. And whatſoever ſeem'd contentious or doubtful to the King's piercing …
With rule
… be heard upon thoſe particulars, which he had brought in Writing; which the King Mark'dMarked with Patience and Pleaſure. And whatſoever ſeem'd contentious or doubtful to the King's piercing …
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 50 · Open in the reader

The Upright Mans Peace A46360

Printed
… bleſſed Event and Conſequent of Ʋprightneſs and Perfection, is a thing that ſhould be Mark'dMarked, Obſerv'd, and duly conſider'd by Others: Mark the perfect Man, &c.
With rule
… bleſſed Event and Conſequent of Ʋprightneſs and Perfection, is a thing that ſhould be Mark'dMarked, Obſerv'd, and duly conſider'd by Others: Mark the perfect Man, &c.
Thomas Jacombe · The Upright Mans Peace · p. 3 · Open in the reader