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Waiting for reviewJoins and splitsCandidate #36106 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ouercō methovercometh

Words joined or split: to day → today, it selfe → itself, aswell → as well.

Puritas changed it
4 times in 3 works
Consistency
100% (4 of 4, in those works)
Reach if approved
~4 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Phrase, any case
In our text
4 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (4 changes in 3 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (4 of 4)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … is a cōmen ſayeng, & no leſſe true: Maior pars vincit meliorem, ye greater part ouercō methovercometh y• better. So they dyd incō dēning chriſt, Nicodemus co… ſail not being regarded …
    With rule
    … is a cōmen ſayeng, & no leſſe true: Maior pars vincit meliorem, ye greater part ouercō methovercometh y• better. So they dyd incō dēning chriſt, Nicodemus co… ſail not being regarded …

    John Bradford · An Exhortation to the Carrying of Christs Cross · p. 47 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … is a thirst, 11. of the vvel of the vvater of lyfe, free, 12. He that ouercō methovercometh, shall inherite all thynges, 13. I vvill be his God, and he shall be my …
    With rule
    … is a thirst, 11. of the vvel of the vvater of lyfe, free, 12. He that ouercō methovercometh, shall inherite all thynges, 13. I vvill be his God, and he shall be my …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    12 Him that ouercō methovercometh wil I make a pillare in the Temple of my God, & he ſhall go …
    With rule
    12 Him that ouercō methovercometh wil I make a pillare in the Temple of my God, & he ſhall go …

    John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 93 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … that hath an ear, heare what the ſpirit ſaith to the churches. He that ouercō methovercometh, ſhal not be hurt of the ſecond death.
    With rule
    … that hath an ear, heare what the ſpirit ſaith to the churches. He that ouercō methovercometh, ſhal not be hurt of the ſecond death.

    John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 84 · 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.