Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #630 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ouerflowoverflow

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

Puritas changed it: 208 times in 128 works
Consistency: 100% (208 of 208)
Reach if approved: ~219 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: overflow
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 208 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (208 changes in 128 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 208)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… permitted to the ſubiectes, to ſuffre the blaſphemie and oppreſsion of their ſuperiors to ouerflowoverflow their whole countrie and nation, when both power and means is geuen vnto them …
With rule
… permitted to the ſubiectes, to ſuffre the blaſphemie and oppreſsion of their ſuperiors to ouerflowoverflow their whole countrie and nation, when both power and means is geuen vnto them …
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 123 · Open in the reader
Printed
… like to the ſea, into which all riuers run, and yet it doth not ouerflowoverflow. For ſo into this are caried out of diuers parts of the world thouſand …
With rule
… like to the ſea, into which all riuers run, and yet it doth not ouerflowoverflow. For ſo into this are caried out of diuers parts of the world thouſand …
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
… place onely by the hand of God, the nature of the water is to ouerflowoverflow all the earth, and the nature of the viſible heauens to bee confounded with …
With rule
… place onely by the hand of God, the nature of the water is to ouerflowoverflow all the earth, and the nature of the viſible heauens to bee confounded with …
John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the waters I wil be with thee, & through the flouds that they do not ouerflowoverflow thee: when thou walkest through the very fire, thou not be burnt: neither shall …
With rule
… the waters I wil be with thee, & through the flouds that they do not ouerflowoverflow thee: when thou walkest through the very fire, thou not be burnt: neither shall …
William Perkins · Whether Man Be in the Estate of Damnation or Grace · p. 100 · Open in the reader
Printed
… manifeſted, that where pride is deepeſt, there patience hath been ſhalloweſt: and they that ouerflowoverflow with the one, haue been void and empty of the other. And in another …
With rule
… manifeſted, that where pride is deepeſt, there patience hath been ſhalloweſt: and they that ouerflowoverflow with the one, haue been void and empty of the other. And in another …
Nehemiah Rogers · Christian Courtesy · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
"And made them ſoone to ouerflowoverflow,
With rule
"And made them ſoone to ouerflowoverflow,
John Wilson · A Song · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… do greeuouſly aſſault vs, is lyke moſt ſwift ſtreames of water that doe ſodainly ouerflowoverflow the fieldes, whoſe outragious crueltie may bée fully compared to the fierceneſſe of brute …
With rule
… do greeuouſly aſſault vs, is lyke moſt ſwift ſtreames of water that doe ſodainly ouerflowoverflow the fieldes, whoſe outragious crueltie may bée fully compared to the fierceneſſe of brute …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Godly Prayers out of Davids Psalms · Open in the reader
Printed
… all our doings accordingly, without any exceeding whatſoeuer. For if once our affections ſhal ouerflowoverflow the bankes of our conditiō, ſo that in mind we burne with the deſire …
With rule
… all our doings accordingly, without any exceeding whatſoeuer. For if once our affections ſhal ouerflowoverflow the bankes of our conditiō, ſo that in mind we burne with the deſire …
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 101 · 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.