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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9996 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pester'dpestered

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

Puritas changed it
52 times in 47 works
Consistency
92.8% (52 of 56)
Reach if approved
~59 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: pestered
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
56 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (52 changes in 47 works, 92.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 52)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the auxiliar Bands, his Troops alſo allighting, to aſſault the rampart. They within though peſter'dpestered with thir own number, ſtood to it like men reſolv'd, and in a narrow …
    With rule
    … the auxiliar Bands, his Troops alſo allighting, to aſſault the rampart. They within though peſter'dpestered with thir own number, ſtood to it like men reſolv'd, and in a narrow …

    John Milton · The History of Britain · p. 54 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Hezekiah ſit on the Throne, as is noted before; and if Ahaz had ſo peſter'dpestered the Temple with his Trinkets in ſo little time, no wonder if Antichriſt hath …
    With rule
    … Hezekiah ſit on the Throne, as is noted before; and if Ahaz had ſo peſter'dpestered the Temple with his Trinkets in ſo little time, no wonder if Antichriſt hath …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 595 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … greater part of the Churches in the Low Countries, how that they be exceedingly peſter'dpestered with divers Sects and Hereſies, as of David George, Anabaptiſts, Libertines, and other Errors …
    With rule
    … greater part of the Churches in the Low Countries, how that they be exceedingly peſter'dpestered with divers Sects and Hereſies, as of David George, Anabaptiſts, Libertines, and other Errors …

    John Quick · The Acts of Famous National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France · p. 143 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … as the Antitinitarians, …, Eutychians, and others not a few in the Primitive Church, so pester'dpestered with arch-he …, that it was then as Erasmus hath it) an ingenious thing …
    With rule
    … as the Antitinitarians, …, Eutychians, and others not a few in the Primitive Church, so pester'dpestered with arch-he …, that it was then as Erasmus hath it) an ingenious thing …

    John Trapp · Commentary on the Gospels and Acts · p. 276 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … riſen among us, yet they were ſuch wherewith the Churches of Chriſt have been peſter'dpestered, even in the Primitive Times; and that not onely in the dayes of the …
    With rule
    … riſen among us, yet they were ſuch wherewith the Churches of Chriſt have been peſter'dpestered, even in the Primitive Times; and that not onely in the dayes of the …

    Jeremiah Ives · The Quakers Quaking · p. 41 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … more to trouble mee than all this, my miseries are sinfull miseries, I am pester'dpestered with hideous hellish temptations, with thoughts not farre from blasphemie, unnaturall, unholy thoughts, such …
    With rule
    … more to trouble mee than all this, my miseries are sinfull miseries, I am pester'dpestered with hideous hellish temptations, with thoughts not farre from blasphemie, unnaturall, unholy thoughts, such …

    Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 87 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … thou not want power againſt ſuch a ſpeciall luſt that hath haunted thee, and peſter'dpestered thee a great while? Doeſt thou not want ſome healing vertue to ſtaunch ſome …
    With rule
    … thou not want power againſt ſuch a ſpeciall luſt that hath haunted thee, and peſter'dpestered thee a great while? Doeſt thou not want ſome healing vertue to ſtaunch ſome …

    Jeremiah Dyke · A Worthy Communicant · p. 417 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … be inflicted on the overgrown Grammarian, for all the Nonſenſical Ribaldry wherewith he has peſter'dpestered the World, is, That he were put a little while under old Busbys laſh …
    With rule
    … be inflicted on the overgrown Grammarian, for all the Nonſenſical Ribaldry wherewith he has peſter'dpestered the World, is, That he were put a little while under old Busbys laſh …

    Thomas Doolittle · Fears and Jealousies Ceased · p. 8 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

0 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.