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Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #473 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ouersightoversight

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

Puritas changed it
542 times in 205 works
Consistency
99.6% (542 of 544)
Reach if approved
~572 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: oversight
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
544 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (542 changes in 205 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 542)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    2 If too much boldnesse bee before others: this was Isaaks ouersightoversight who thought he might do that which he did, should not haue done it …
    With rule
    2 If too much boldnesse bee before others: this was Isaaks ouersightoversight who thought he might do that which he did, should not haue done it …

    George Estey · Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … to be rendred, S. Paul writeth, Rom. 13. v. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Likewiſe obey them that haue the ouerſightoversight of you, and ſubmit your ſelues, for they watch for your ſoules as they …
    With rule
    … to be rendred, S. Paul writeth, Rom. 13. v. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Likewiſe obey them that haue the ouerſightoversight of you, and ſubmit your ſelues, for they watch for your ſoules as they …

    George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 274 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … is no impossible thing for states, be they neuer so well established, yet by ouersightoversight in some one acte or treatie betweene them and their potent opposites, vtterly to …
    With rule
    … is no impossible thing for states, be they neuer so well established, yet by ouersightoversight in some one acte or treatie betweene them and their potent opposites, vtterly to …

    Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 153 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … precious bloud of Gods owne Sonne, should be committed to the cure, charge, and ouersightoversight of boyes and children? Is not this to offer the flocke of Christ, a …
    With rule
    … precious bloud of Gods owne Sonne, should be committed to the cure, charge, and ouersightoversight of boyes and children? Is not this to offer the flocke of Christ, a …

    Thomas Becon · The Acts of Christ and Antichrist · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … his Mayster, and the Mayster with his owne ignorance, than confesse any imperfection ar ouersightoversight in the Poet. Now then if in these bookes confirmed with so manie Miracles …
    With rule
    … his Mayster, and the Mayster with his owne ignorance, than confesse any imperfection ar ouersightoversight in the Poet. Now then if in these bookes confirmed with so manie Miracles …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 476 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … hath in his word, ordained not onely offices, the executors whereof ſhoulde haue the ouerſightoversight of ſoules, but alſo the perſons who were to execute thoſe functions. 1. Cor. 12.28. 1. Pet …
    With rule
    … hath in his word, ordained not onely offices, the executors whereof ſhoulde haue the ouerſightoversight of ſoules, but alſo the perſons who were to execute thoſe functions. 1. Cor. 12.28. 1. Pet …

    John Penry · Defense of Writings on the Ignorant Ministry · p. 37 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … slipped out of his pen but once, he might haue bene pardoned for his ouersightoversight: but when he hath neuer done writing, that Rome is Babylon, why should we …
    With rule
    … slipped out of his pen but once, he might haue bene pardoned for his ouersightoversight: but when he hath neuer done writing, that Rome is Babylon, why should we …

    William Perkins · Lectures Upon Revelation 1-3 · p. 356 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … that of Ahimaaz, Turne aſide, ſtand thou by. This (I ſay) may be an ouerſightoversight: But for the moſt part, the fault is amongſt our ſelues: A Biſhop may …
    With rule
    … that of Ahimaaz, Turne aſide, ſtand thou by. This (I ſay) may be an ouerſightoversight: But for the moſt part, the fault is amongſt our ſelues: A Biſhop may …

    Nehemiah Rogers · Sermon Preached at Second Triennial Visitation · p. 8 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

Twenty-Nine Lectures A10399

  • Printed
    … Infirmity or of Obſtinacy; Of infirmitie, as when wee are either by negligence, Ignorance, OuerſightOversight, weakeneſſe, as being taken tripping in a ſnare, againſt our knowledge, and againſt our …
    With rule
    … Infirmity or of Obſtinacy; Of infirmitie, as when wee are either by negligence, Ignorance, OuerſightOversight, weakeneſſe, as being taken tripping in a ſnare, againſt our knowledge, and againſt our …

    John Randall · Twenty-Nine Lectures · p. 21 · Open in the reader