Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #19653 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ouercastovercast

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

Puritas changed it: 73 times in 52 works
Consistency: 98.6% (73 of 74)
Reach if approved: ~78 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: overcast
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 74 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (73 changes in 52 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 73)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of a regenerat mā, so soone as grace is conceiued into it, it wil ouercastovercast til it cast and vomite out many filthy corruptions: Though Iacob be little and …
With rule
… of a regenerat mā, so soone as grace is conceiued into it, it wil ouercastovercast til it cast and vomite out many filthy corruptions: Though Iacob be little and …
Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 170 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and further from thoſe miſtie times off Antichriſt / wherwith after the whole earth was ouercaſtovercast. For if this man off ſin being in the eg in thappoſtles time / receyned …
With rule
… and further from thoſe miſtie times off Antichriſt / wherwith after the whole earth was ouercaſtovercast. For if this man off ſin being in the eg in thappoſtles time / receyned …
Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. DVII · Open in the reader
Printed
… it. And to th'increaſe of that darknes wherwith the power of vnderſtanding & willinge is ouercaſtovercast, there is yet another worſer inconuenience: namely y^t reaſon ſucketh vpon vntruth, & wreſtleth wilfully …
With rule
… it. And to th'increaſe of that darknes wherwith the power of vnderſtanding & willinge is ouercaſtovercast, there is yet another worſer inconuenience: namely y^t reaſon ſucketh vpon vntruth, & wreſtleth wilfully …
Theodore Beza · Book of Christian Questions and Answers · Open in the reader
Printed
… and the like, with a fained flourish of continency and chastity: so did he ouercastovercast thenimie of Gods grace Pelagius, with thapparance of all grauity, constancy, and humility: and …
With rule
… and the like, with a fained flourish of continency and chastity: so did he ouercastovercast thenimie of Gods grace Pelagius, with thapparance of all grauity, constancy, and humility: and …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of their ioy is ſoone put out in darkeneſſe, and all the ſhining thereof ouercaſtovercast of the ſudden with ſome ſad remembrance, or but the heare-ſay of a …
With rule
… of their ioy is ſoone put out in darkeneſſe, and all the ſhining thereof ouercaſtovercast of the ſudden with ſome ſad remembrance, or but the heare-ſay of a …
William Negus · Mans Active Obedience · p. 240 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Lord kill me, yet will I trust in him: yet afterward, his faith beeing ouercastovercast as with a cloude, he saith, that God was become his enemy, & that he …
With rule
… Lord kill me, yet will I trust in him: yet afterward, his faith beeing ouercastovercast as with a cloude, he saith, that God was become his enemy, & that he …
William Perkins · A Salve for a Sick Man · p. 171 · Open in the reader
Printed
… requireth: nay where is the euening ſacrifice which God requireth: the glomy morning hath ouercaſtovercast the whole day, doeſt thou thinke it enough if thou do not ſit in …
With rule
… requireth: nay where is the euening ſacrifice which God requireth: the glomy morning hath ouercaſtovercast the whole day, doeſt thou thinke it enough if thou do not ſit in …
Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 467 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ambition, enuie, malice, as Satan is, and therefore their knowledge is not obscured or ouercastovercast, with such turbulent affections, as Satans is: 3. they referre all to Gods will, and …
With rule
… ambition, enuie, malice, as Satan is, and therefore their knowledge is not obscured or ouercastovercast, with such turbulent affections, as Satans is: 3. they referre all to Gods will, and …
Andrew Willet · Harmony Upon 1 Samuel · p. 320 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Four Great Liars Striving A09431

Printed
B OuercastOvercast and some rayne.
With rule
B OuercastOvercast and some rayne.
William Perkins · Four Great Liars Striving · Open in the reader