Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #33555 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ouerseeneoverseen

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it: 158 times in 74 works
Consistency: 99.3% (158 of 159)
Reach if approved: ~167 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: overseen
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 159 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (158 changes in 74 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 158)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… it is no great disparagement to men, otherwise learned and orthodoxall, to haue been ouerseeneoverseen in matters of Church gouernment; so that they doe not for the same leaue …
With rule
… it is no great disparagement to men, otherwise learned and orthodoxall, to haue been ouerseeneoverseen in matters of Church gouernment; so that they doe not for the same leaue …
George Downame · A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Lord for giftes, we ſearch out euery part, and branch, leaſt we be ouerſeeneoverseen in ſome ſpeciall point, and leaſt while wee ſeeke to increaſe one vertue, another …
With rule
… the Lord for giftes, we ſearch out euery part, and branch, leaſt we be ouerſeeneoverseen in ſome ſpeciall point, and leaſt while wee ſeeke to increaſe one vertue, another …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 140 · Open in the reader
Printed
Therefore is the Apostle much ouerseeneoverseen in his Epistle to the Hebrewes, where hee will take vpon him, to mainteine …
With rule
Therefore is the Apostle much ouerseeneoverseen in his Epistle to the Hebrewes, where hee will take vpon him, to mainteine …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · Open in the reader
Printed
… all points of doctrine, pertaining to saluation. And the ancient Churches haue bin farre ouerseeneoverseen, that did not propounde the former points to be beleeued as articles of faith …
With rule
… all points of doctrine, pertaining to saluation. And the ancient Churches haue bin farre ouerseeneoverseen, that did not propounde the former points to be beleeued as articles of faith …
William Perkins · A Reformed Catholic · p. 354 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reader in the behalfe of the Printer, to pardon and to correct theſe faults ouerſeeneoverseen in printing.
With rule
… reader in the behalfe of the Printer, to pardon and to correct theſe faults ouerſeeneoverseen in printing.
John Smyth · The Bright Morning Star · Open in the reader
Printed
… be counted an euill Poet? So I say to him, that he was much ouerseeneoverseen of a reasonable good translator, to take vpon him to be a bad author …
With rule
… be counted an euill Poet? So I say to him, that he was much ouerseeneoverseen of a reasonable good translator, to take vpon him to be a bad author …
Andrew Willet · An Antilogy · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
M. Perkins then vvas not a little ouerseeneoverseen, to put for the first proprietie of merit, that it must be done by …
With rule
M. Perkins then vvas not a little ouerseeneoverseen, to put for the first proprietie of merit, that it must be done by …
Anthony Wotton · Defense of Perkins Book Called a Reformed Catholic · p. 297 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God magnifieth his grace, to the intent that men ſhould not be ſo far ouerſeeneoverseen, as to thinke that they atteine to fayth by their owne wiſdome. No, ſayth …
With rule
… God magnifieth his grace, to the intent that men ſhould not be ſo far ouerſeeneoverseen, as to thinke that they atteine to fayth by their owne wiſdome. No, ſayth …
John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · p. 192 · 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.