Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #239 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ouerwhelmedoverwhelmed

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

Puritas changed it: 924 times in 295 works
Consistency: 100% (924 of 924)
Reach if approved: ~971 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: overwhelmed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 924 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (924 changes in 295 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 924)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Fearefulnesse and trembling are come vpon me; and horror hath ouerwhelmedoverwhelmed me. v. 5.
With rule
Fearefulnesse and trembling are come vpon me; and horror hath ouerwhelmedoverwhelmed me. v. 5.
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 456 · Open in the reader
Printed
… would haue beene altogether vnprofitable, and so as they should neuerthelesse haue remayned so ouerwhelmedoverwhelmed in their naturall corruption, as not to doe any thing holily and purely before …
With rule
… would haue beene altogether vnprofitable, and so as they should neuerthelesse haue remayned so ouerwhelmedoverwhelmed in their naturall corruption, as not to doe any thing holily and purely before …
John Frewen · Choice Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion · p. 336 · Open in the reader
Printed
… matter, we ſhall ſee, that there is a flood of ignorance, which hath almoſt ouerwhelmedoverwhelmed all, and in manie which ſeeme to know very much, if they were ſounded …
With rule
… matter, we ſhall ſee, that there is a flood of ignorance, which hath almoſt ouerwhelmedoverwhelmed all, and in manie which ſeeme to know very much, if they were ſounded …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 138 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hinder prayer: but that in company, in the midſt of buſineſſes, when wee are ouerwhelmedoverwhelmed with temptations, we may pray vnto God: here learne to doe it.
With rule
… hinder prayer: but that in company, in the midſt of buſineſſes, when wee are ouerwhelmedoverwhelmed with temptations, we may pray vnto God: here learne to doe it.
William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 421 · Open in the reader
Printed
Where Pharaoes hoost, the floude ouerwhelmedoverwhelmed in dede.
With rule
Where Pharaoes hoost, the floude ouerwhelmedoverwhelmed in dede.
John Bale · A Tragedy Manifesting the Chief Promises of God Unto Man · Open in the reader
Printed
… acquaint them with euidence from the Word, whether the griefe which they are ſometimes ouerwhelmedoverwhelmed withall, or the comforts that they are at other times accheerd withall, be ſuch …
With rule
… acquaint them with euidence from the Word, whether the griefe which they are ſometimes ouerwhelmedoverwhelmed withall, or the comforts that they are at other times accheerd withall, be ſuch …
Thomas Barnes · The Gales of Grace · p. 225 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bounded in schooles and studies. The Deluge of the North (the treasurie of men) ouerwhelmedoverwhelmed the Romane empire, scattered the men, and spoiled the Latine. Goths, Vandalls, Lombards, and …
With rule
… bounded in schooles and studies. The Deluge of the North (the treasurie of men) ouerwhelmedoverwhelmed the Romane empire, scattered the men, and spoiled the Latine. Goths, Vandalls, Lombards, and …
John Lightfoot · Miscellanies Christian and Judaical · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bendeth all his force agaynst thee, that y^u, I say (which art oppressed and ouerwhelmedoverwhelmed of y^• world with many miseries, in daunger of all misfortune, out of the …
With rule
… bendeth all his force agaynst thee, that y^u, I say (which art oppressed and ouerwhelmedoverwhelmed of y^• world with many miseries, in daunger of all misfortune, out of the …
Martin Luther · Sermon Concerning the Coming of our Savior · 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.