Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #19456 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ouercomesovercomes

u and v used by position, not sound: haue → have, vnto → unto.

Puritas changed it: 115 times in 61 works
Consistency: 99.1% (115 of 116)
Reach if approved: ~122 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: overcomes
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 116 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (115 changes in 61 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 115)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… will of her husband, ſhe changes her rayment, ſhe ſets vpon the iourney, and ouercomesovercomes it: What needed this diſguiſe to an old Prophet whoſe dimme eies were ſet …
With rule
… will of her husband, ſhe changes her rayment, ſhe ſets vpon the iourney, and ouercomesovercomes it: What needed this diſguiſe to an old Prophet whoſe dimme eies were ſet …
Joseph Hall · History of the Old Testament Volume 7 · p. 95 · Open in the reader
Printed
… much leſſe to him that ſhewes his backe in cowardiſe, but to him that ouercomesovercomes to conqueſt is the reward promiſed.
With rule
… much leſſe to him that ſhewes his backe in cowardiſe, but to him that ouercomesovercomes to conqueſt is the reward promiſed.
John Gee · Hold Fast · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Chriſt that ſtrengthens me. Dauid firſt encounters a Lion and a Beare, and afterwards ouercomesovercomes the great Goliah: ſo true and liuely faith firſt begins with pettie deſire, and …
With rule
… Chriſt that ſtrengthens me. Dauid firſt encounters a Lion and a Beare, and afterwards ouercomesovercomes the great Goliah: ſo true and liuely faith firſt begins with pettie deſire, and …
John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · Open in the reader
Printed
… loue, which makes all things easie: which is as strong as the graue, that ouercomesovercomes all, and was neuer yet ouercome: which is as a flaming fire, that a …
With rule
… loue, which makes all things easie: which is as strong as the graue, that ouercomesovercomes all, and was neuer yet ouercome: which is as a flaming fire, that a …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 600 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and crucified Him, (beholde His wonderfull loue) Hee brings them to repentance, His mercie ouercomesovercomes their malice: ſo that in them ye ſee that which is ſaid to be …
With rule
… and crucified Him, (beholde His wonderfull loue) Hee brings them to repentance, His mercie ouercomesovercomes their malice: ſo that in them ye ſee that which is ſaid to be …
Robert Rollock · The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 235 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the more violent; but yet ſtill his faith is his victory, by which he ouercomesovercomes the world. The aſſurance that he findes in himſelfe of Gods eternall loue, and …
With rule
… the more violent; but yet ſtill his faith is his victory, by which he ouercomesovercomes the world. The aſſurance that he findes in himſelfe of Gods eternall loue, and …
William Whately · The New Birth · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the world destroyeth, and a faith which is our victorie, by which a Christian ouercomesovercomes the world. There is a faith, whereby wee beleeue there is a God; and …
With rule
… the world destroyeth, and a faith which is our victorie, by which a Christian ouercomesovercomes the world. There is a faith, whereby wee beleeue there is a God; and …
John Boys · Exposition of the Dominical Epistles and Gospels · p. 276 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it is that ſometimes ſinne that abides in them, preuailes ouer it, Vſe. 1 and ouercomesovercomes it in part, and for a time, Vſe. 1 and that ſometimes it leades ouen …
With rule
… it is that ſometimes ſinne that abides in them, preuailes ouer it, Vſe. 1 and ouercomesovercomes it in part, and for a time, Vſe. 1 and that ſometimes it leades ouen …
Edward Elton · The Complaint of a Sanctified Sinner Answered · p. 447 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.