Waiting for reviewu / vCandidate #847 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ouerspreadoverspread

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

Puritas changed it: 110 times in 76 works
Consistency: 100% (110 of 110)
Reach if approved: ~116 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: overspread
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 110 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (110 changes in 76 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 110)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… It could not bee but that great calamities in this time of diſcorde did ouerſpreadoverspread the whole land: they might by experience then, and did behold how euill and …
With rule
… It could not bee but that great calamities in this time of diſcorde did ouerſpreadoverspread the whole land: they might by experience then, and did behold how euill and …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 259 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Nyſſ: Now man is fallen from this eſtate, ſinne proceeding from one Adam hath ouerſpreadoverspread all men. All haue ſinned and are depriued of the glory of God. There …
With rule
… Nyſſ: Now man is fallen from this eſtate, ſinne proceeding from one Adam hath ouerſpreadoverspread all men. All haue ſinned and are depriued of the glory of God. There …
John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… come into the roomes of faithfull teachers, & the Apostasie, of which Paul speaks, hath ouerspreadoverspread the face of the Church.
With rule
… come into the roomes of faithfull teachers, & the Apostasie, of which Paul speaks, hath ouerspreadoverspread the face of the Church.
William Perkins · A Salve for a Sick Man · p. 144 · Open in the reader
Printed
VVith Orcus vapours ouerspreadoverspread the light,
With rule
VVith Orcus vapours ouerspreadoverspread the light,
Francis Rous · Virtues History · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Gods worship and religion, euen in the Apostles daies: but since it hath ouerspreadoverspread almost the whole church, and quite choked all the true worship; which, according to …
With rule
… of Gods worship and religion, euen in the Apostles daies: but since it hath ouerspreadoverspread almost the whole church, and quite choked all the true worship; which, according to …
Francis Trigge · Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith · p. 355 · Open in the reader
Printed
… infancy thereof: But his dominion preuailed, and from a corner of the earth, hath ouerspreadoverspread all the world. Mar.
With rule
… infancy thereof: But his dominion preuailed, and from a corner of the earth, hath ouerspreadoverspread all the world. Mar.
Andrew Willet · Harmony Upon 2 Samuel · Open in the reader
Printed
… of that humour of the Gall, which hath caused his Appeale, to bee all ouerspreadoverspread with the yellow, yea, with the blacke Iawndise. For Master Caluin holds with Saint …
With rule
… of that humour of the Gall, which hath caused his Appeale, to bee all ouerspreadoverspread with the yellow, yea, with the blacke Iawndise. For Master Caluin holds with Saint …
Henry Burton · A Plea to an Appeal · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… had been already in his time such fallings away, but a revolt which should ouerspreadoverspread the face of the Church, so that she might hardly be espyed through the …
With rule
… had been already in his time such fallings away, but a revolt which should ouerspreadoverspread the face of the Church, so that she might hardly be espyed through the …
John Cameron · Examination of those Plausible Appearances in the Romish Church · p. 138 · 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.