Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #632 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ouerseeoversee

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

Puritas changed it: 119 times in 82 works
Consistency: 98.3% (119 of 121)
Reach if approved: ~127 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: oversee
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 121 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (119 changes in 82 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 119)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… is not altogether excuſable of this fault, which although hée be no guide or ouerſeeoversee… of the people, deeth notwithſtanding knowe many thinges worthie controllment, & yet winck at them …
With rule
… is not altogether excuſable of this fault, which although hée be no guide or ouerſeeoversee… of the people, deeth notwithſtanding knowe many thinges worthie controllment, & yet winck at them …
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 298 · Open in the reader
Printed
… perſwade men to be prouident for their eſtate, and not ſlacke to ſuperuiſe and ouerſeeoversee their owne affaires, and to look that there be no detriment through their negligence …
With rule
… perſwade men to be prouident for their eſtate, and not ſlacke to ſuperuiſe and ouerſeeoversee their owne affaires, and to look that there be no detriment through their negligence …
Robert Cleaver · A Brief Explanation of the Whole Book of Proverbs · p. 467 · Open in the reader
Printed
For the family, ſhe muſt ouerſeeoversee all the waies of them, and both ſet them worke and taske, & alſo giue …
With rule
For the family, ſhe muſt ouerſeeoversee all the waies of them, and both ſet them worke and taske, & alſo giue …
Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Conents: or procured to be created Chations or Biſhops. Biſhops I ſaye, not to ouerſeeoversee their flocke, but to foreſe theyr priuate gayne. So, as they become the lordes …
With rule
… Conents: or procured to be created Chations or Biſhops. Biſhops I ſaye, not to ouerſeeoversee their flocke, but to foreſe theyr priuate gayne. So, as they become the lordes …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
… wrote / page 79. But D. Perne wrote page 60. the which you had no leysure to ouerseeoversee. This is a prettie aunswere / is it not think… you? Let me take you …
With rule
… wrote / page 79. But D. Perne wrote page 60. the which you had no leysure to ouerseeoversee. This is a prettie aunswere / is it not think… you? Let me take you …
Martin Marprelate · Read John Bridges · Open in the reader
Printed
… men by their huge Turbants, two yards in compasse. The sixth are Muderisi, which ouerseeoversee the Caddies doings, and are as Suffragans to their Bishops; who are the seuenth …
With rule
… men by their huge Turbants, two yards in compasse. The sixth are Muderisi, which ouerseeoversee the Caddies doings, and are as Suffragans to their Bishops; who are the seuenth …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 265 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Oh what a difficult vertue is this when it commeth to the practising, to ouerseeoversee and neglect all glistering lures, and stales of the flesh, and to know no …
With rule
… Oh what a difficult vertue is this when it commeth to the practising, to ouerseeoversee and neglect all glistering lures, and stales of the flesh, and to know no …
Samuel Ward · All in All · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… old and new Teſtament, that this duetie is layd vpon all houſeholders, diligently to ouerſeeoversee the wayes of their familie, that they ſerue God, as in all other dueties …
With rule
… old and new Teſtament, that this duetie is layd vpon all houſeholders, diligently to ouerſeeoversee the wayes of their familie, that they ſerue God, as in all other dueties …
Nicholas Bownd · The Doctrine of the Sabbath · p. 262 · 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.

Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical A09265

Printed
2 OuerſeeOversee the flocke. 1. Pet. 5. 2. Act. 20. 28.
With rule
2 OuerſeeOversee the flocke. 1. Pet. 5. 2. Act. 20. 28.
Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · p. 6 · Open in the reader