Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #567 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ouerflowedoverflowed

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

Puritas changed it: 118 times in 76 works
Consistency: 100% (118 of 118)
Reach if approved: ~124 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: overflowed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 118 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (118 changes in 76 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 118)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſwept away euery vaine confidence, and this breaking in of a fierie ſea, had ouerflowedoverflowed the ſecret places: euery couenant with death ſhould haue beene diſanulled: the agreement with …
With rule
… ſwept away euery vaine confidence, and this breaking in of a fierie ſea, had ouerflowedoverflowed the ſecret places: euery couenant with death ſhould haue beene diſanulled: the agreement with …
William Hubbock · Great Britains Resurrection · Open in the reader
Printed
… the water, through the word of God. Wherfore the world that then was, perished, ouerflowedoverflowed with the water: But the heauens and earth, which are now, are kept by …
With rule
… the water, through the word of God. Wherfore the world that then was, perished, ouerflowedoverflowed with the water: But the heauens and earth, which are now, are kept by …
Martin Luther · Sermon Concerning the Coming of our Savior · Open in the reader
Printed
… still to deliuer, vntill in the third moneth after (which was March) the Riuer ouerflowedoverflowed the Countrey six score miles about, after his yerely custome, and partly drowned, partly …
With rule
… still to deliuer, vntill in the third moneth after (which was March) the Riuer ouerflowedoverflowed the Countrey six score miles about, after his yerely custome, and partly drowned, partly …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 389 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is this, that in ſo bad times, as thoſe were, wherin ſinne had ſo ouerflowedoverflowed al eſtates, the Lordes taking away by death, ſo many of their beſt and …
With rule
… is this, that in ſo bad times, as thoſe were, wherin ſinne had ſo ouerflowedoverflowed al eſtates, the Lordes taking away by death, ſo many of their beſt and …
Thomas Sparke · Sermon 22 November 1593 · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… up like a wall, by a miraculous worke, and in Noahs deluge, the sea ouerflowedoverflowed the earth by an extraordinary work: but now the sea is kept in by …
With rule
… up like a wall, by a miraculous worke, and in Noahs deluge, the sea ouerflowedoverflowed the earth by an extraordinary work: but now the sea is kept in by …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of faith. This was moreouer a peculiar temptation, that the riuer Iordane had then ouerflowedoverflowed his bankes, as he vseth yearely to doe, in the beginning of Summer. For …
With rule
… of faith. This was moreouer a peculiar temptation, that the riuer Iordane had then ouerflowedoverflowed his bankes, as he vseth yearely to doe, in the beginning of Summer. For …
John Calvin · Commentary on Joshua · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with his wife, it was in mariage. But now a dayes all is ſo ouerflowedoverflowed, that a man muſt ſhut his eyes againſt the greateſt vilanyes of the worlde …
With rule
… with his wife, it was in mariage. But now a dayes all is ſo ouerflowedoverflowed, that a man muſt ſhut his eyes againſt the greateſt vilanyes of the worlde …
John Calvin · Thirteen Sermons on Free Election in Jacob and Reprobation in Esau · Open in the reader
Printed
… great, and marueylous ouerthrow, by the conueying of the water of Nylus (which then ouerflowedoverflowed) into their Campe, and were faine to accorde an vnprofitable truce with the Soldan …
With rule
… great, and marueylous ouerthrow, by the conueying of the water of Nylus (which then ouerflowedoverflowed) into their Campe, and were faine to accorde an vnprofitable truce with the Soldan …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 219 · 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.