Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9990 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

naamansnaaman's

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

Puritas changed it: 261 times in 185 works
Consistency: 100% (261 of 261)
Reach if approved: ~274 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 261 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (261 changes in 185 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 261)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… with seuen heads, is Antichrist, with his seuen Popish sacraments: then you out of NaamansNaaman's seuen times washing, can picke out seuen sacraments. But if you will needs make …
With rule
… with seuen heads, is Antichrist, with his seuen Popish sacraments: then you out of NaamansNaaman's seuen times washing, can picke out seuen sacraments. But if you will needs make …
Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 422 · Open in the reader
Printed
… est) the holy Ghost, they may choose whether they will haue Esaus curse, or NaamansNaaman's leprosie, or Iudas his suspension, or Simons perdition: or rather all of these together …
With rule
… est) the holy Ghost, they may choose whether they will haue Esaus curse, or NaamansNaaman's leprosie, or Iudas his suspension, or Simons perdition: or rather all of these together …
Henry Burton · A Censure of Simony · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… body or raiment? So iuſt it is, that he that will couet NaamansNaaman's ſiluer, NaamansNaaman's raiment, ſhould be clothed, ſhould be plagued with NaamansNaaman's leproſie.
With rule
… body or raiment? So iuſt it is, that he that will couet NaamansNaaman's ſiluer, NaamansNaaman's raiment, ſhould be clothed, ſhould be plagued with NaamansNaaman's leproſie.
Jeremiah Dyke · A Counterpoison Against Covetousness · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
The Leproſie on NaamansNaaman's body, was was an occaſion of the cure of his Leprous ſoule: if his …
With rule
The Leproſie on NaamansNaaman's body, was was an occaſion of the cure of his Leprous ſoule: if his …
Samuel Bolton · A Tossed Ship Making to Safe Harbor · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to the patient, but not infectious to the company: not like King Uzziahs, but NaamansNaaman's leprosie; which had it been contagious, no doubt the King of Assyria, when he …
With rule
… to the patient, but not infectious to the company: not like King Uzziahs, but NaamansNaaman's leprosie; which had it been contagious, no doubt the King of Assyria, when he …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I dull, he hath enough grace and enlargement for me; it is ſaid of NaamansNaaman's leproſie, Let him come, and hee ſhall know there is a God in Iſrael …
With rule
… I dull, he hath enough grace and enlargement for me; it is ſaid of NaamansNaaman's leproſie, Let him come, and hee ſhall know there is a God in Iſrael …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Vocation · p. 146 · Open in the reader
Printed
NaamansNaaman's worship in the Temple of Rimmon. 45
With rule
NaamansNaaman's worship in the Temple of Rimmon. 45
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · Open in the reader
Printed
… God hath no neede of our loue, no more then Elisa had neede of NaamansNaaman's cleansing, but as Elisa bad Naaman wash, that he might become cleane, in the …
With rule
… God hath no neede of our loue, no more then Elisa had neede of NaamansNaaman's cleansing, but as Elisa bad Naaman wash, that he might become cleane, in the …
Henry Smith · The Layers Question · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.