Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7742 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ouerthrowneoverthrown

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it: 1,251 times in 368 works
Consistency: 99.8% (1,251 of 1,253)
Reach if approved: ~1,317 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: overthrown
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,253 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,251 changes in 368 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,251)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… King, Nicholas Marſh, and Robert Garner men of Dedham, Robert Debnam of Eſtbergholt, had ouerthrowneoverthrown and burned the roode of Douercourt, ten miles of Dedhā, of which Idoll a …
With rule
… King, Nicholas Marſh, and Robert Garner men of Dedham, Robert Debnam of Eſtbergholt, had ouerthrowneoverthrown and burned the roode of Douercourt, ten miles of Dedhā, of which Idoll a …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it is reade, y^t they which did not receiue those sacraments worthily, were therefore ouerthrowneoverthrown in the wildernes. Why then (saith Sander) if it were so, it had required …
With rule
… it is reade, y^t they which did not receiue those sacraments worthily, were therefore ouerthrowneoverthrown in the wildernes. Why then (saith Sander) if it were so, it had required …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 654 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a man may spend much time about without tediousnesse, or despaire of being euer ouerthrowneoverthrown in, that a man doth mispend, or must needes mispend much time about. That …
With rule
… a man may spend much time about without tediousnesse, or despaire of being euer ouerthrowneoverthrown in, that a man doth mispend, or must needes mispend much time about. That …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 190 · Open in the reader
Printed
… our Counsellor is in heauen; that will not let our cause fall, or be ouerthrowneoverthrown. If any man sinne, we haue an Aduocate with the Father, Iesus Christ the …
With rule
… our Counsellor is in heauen; that will not let our cause fall, or be ouerthrowneoverthrown. If any man sinne, we haue an Aduocate with the Father, Iesus Christ the …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 279 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it out against so weak an aduersarie, whom his conceite might casely ennough be ouerthrowneoverthrown with a blast of words: But the thing we stand vpon is this, that …
With rule
… it out against so weak an aduersarie, whom his conceite might casely ennough be ouerthrowneoverthrown with a blast of words: But the thing we stand vpon is this, that …
Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which long challenge of his, and leane proofe of yours, is largelie confuted, and ouerthrowneoverthrown by sundrie learned.
With rule
… which long challenge of his, and leane proofe of yours, is largelie confuted, and ouerthrowneoverthrown by sundrie learned.
Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 127 · Open in the reader
Printed
… death: ſinne being aboliſhed, and death ſubdued, the kingdome of the diuell was vtterly ouerthrowneoverthrown. As for the maner of declaring and manifeſting this deliuerance, it is either in …
With rule
… death: ſinne being aboliſhed, and death ſubdued, the kingdome of the diuell was vtterly ouerthrowneoverthrown. As for the maner of declaring and manifeſting this deliuerance, it is either in …
Samuel Hieron · The Abridgment of the Gospel · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… crosse, whiche the Admirall with great earnest sute obtayned of the king to be ouerthrowneoverthrown: for he alleaged, that being erected in the midst of the rage of the …
With rule
… crosse, whiche the Admirall with great earnest sute obtayned of the king to be ouerthrowneoverthrown: for he alleaged, that being erected in the midst of the rage of the …
François Hotman · The Furious Outrages of France and the Horrible Slaughter · p. XXVIII · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Christian Dictionary A15520

Printed
2 OuerthrowneOverthrown and quite destroyed, when God threatneth to lay Wast their Citties and Houses. Leuit …
With rule
2 OuerthrowneOverthrown and quite destroyed, when God threatneth to lay Wast their Citties and Houses. Leuit …
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 522 · Open in the reader

Of the Head Cornerstone A17242

Printed
… stood to the defense of the same, against all the force of his enemies. OuerthrowneOverthrown hee was, soone after that hee sought to haue the Romans confe…derate with …
With rule
… stood to the defense of the same, against all the force of his enemies. OuerthrowneOverthrown hee was, soone after that hee sought to haue the Romans confe…derate with …
Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 570 · Open in the reader