Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9997 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

plac'tplacit

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

Puritas changed it: 151 times in 76 works
Consistency: 100% (151 of 151)
Reach if approved: ~159 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: placed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 151 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (151 changes in 76 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 151)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Under his shadow I sate down with great delight there plac'tplacit,
With rule
Under his shadow I sate down with great delight there plac'tplacit,
Zacharie Boyd · The Psalms of David in Meter with the Prose Interlined · Open in the reader
Printed
When you are plac'tplacit behind the Veteran.
With rule
When you are plac'tplacit behind the Veteran.
Thomas Gilbert · Englands Passing-Bell · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are brought in upon them as a flood; which very thoughts if they were plac'tplacit and exercised aright, would let in God upon them, fill them with his fulness …
With rule
… are brought in upon them as a flood; which very thoughts if they were plac'tplacit and exercised aright, would let in God upon them, fill them with his fulness …
John Howe · Delighting in God · p. 327 · Open in the reader
Printed
Have brought thee, and highest plac'tplacit, highest is best,
With rule
Have brought thee, and highest plac'tplacit, highest is best,
John Milton · Paradise Regained · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… brought into the same roome, and by accident when hee sate downe to meate, plac'tplacit just under the hand, which though it had beene withered and dryed for so …
With rule
… brought into the same roome, and by accident when hee sate downe to meate, plac'tplacit just under the hand, which though it had beene withered and dryed for so …
Thomas Taylor · The Theater of Gods Judgments Part 2 · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
Hast plac'tplacit thy heart, where loue and fate together,
With rule
Hast plac'tplacit thy heart, where loue and fate together,
Phineas Fletcher · Britains Ida · Open in the reader
Printed
Yea in short time must Fade; Titles wrong plac'tplacit
With rule
Yea in short time must Fade; Titles wrong plac'tplacit
George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader
Printed
… they are joyned with God. Conscience is a thing within us, which God hath plac'tplacit there of purpose to be his witnesse or … to discover all we think or …
With rule
… they are joyned with God. Conscience is a thing within us, which God hath plac'tplacit there of purpose to be his witnesse or … to discover all we think or …
Nicholas Byfield · A Commentary on 1 Peter 1-3 · p. 499 · 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.