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ouerthwartoverthwart

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

Puritas changed it
131 times in 67 works
Consistency
99.2% (131 of 132)
Reach if approved
~139 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: overthwart
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
132 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (131 changes in 67 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 131)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … when aduerſitie befalles them. Firſt of all then they deceiue themſelues by making an ouerthwartoverthwart compariſon: Oh, I haue ouercome this or that people, therefore it is I that …
    With rule
    … when aduerſitie befalles them. Firſt of all then they deceiue themſelues by making an ouerthwartoverthwart compariſon: Oh, I haue ouercome this or that people, therefore it is I that …

    John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · p. 362 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … take not too much libertie, to wrangle againſt him, and to enter into crooked & ouerthwartoverthwart diſputations, that then the whole ſhall profite vs. For it is certaine, that this …
    With rule
    … take not too much libertie, to wrangle againſt him, and to enter into crooked & ouerthwartoverthwart diſputations, that then the whole ſhall profite vs. For it is certaine, that this …

    John Calvin · Thirteen Sermons on Free Election in Jacob and Reprobation in Esau · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the mount of corruption, yet blameth it not Gods creature. S. Paul calleth circumcision ouerthwartoverthwart cutting, yet doeth he not scoffe at Gods sacrament. Christ saide, the Temple was …
    With rule
    … the mount of corruption, yet blameth it not Gods creature. S. Paul calleth circumcision ouerthwartoverthwart cutting, yet doeth he not scoffe at Gods sacrament. Christ saide, the Temple was …

    Edward Dering · A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the storie of Iacobs blessing, will easely perceiue, yt his laying of his hands ouerthwartoverthwart, was not for any blessing with the crosse, but because he was to lay …
    With rule
    … the storie of Iacobs blessing, will easely perceiue, yt his laying of his hands ouerthwartoverthwart, was not for any blessing with the crosse, but because he was to lay …

    William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 173 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of his deare mother the holy Church, must haue perforce tumbled him topsie …uruie ouerthwartoverthwart the field, that he did not well see what he said: he is like …
    With rule
    … of his deare mother the holy Church, must haue perforce tumbled him topsie …uruie ouerthwartoverthwart the field, that he did not well see what he said: he is like …

    Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 81 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … hand, or on the left; aboue them, or below by them; whether crosse and ouerthwartoverthwart, or directly against them. In like manner they obserued the noise & sound of the …
    With rule
    … hand, or on the left; aboue them, or below by them; whether crosse and ouerthwartoverthwart, or directly against them. In like manner they obserued the noise & sound of the …

    William Perkins · The Damned Art of Witchcraft · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the huſband vſe the wife? Becauſe this is the qualitie of that ſexe, to ouerthwartoverthwart, and vpbraide, and ſue the preheminence of their husbandes, therfore the Philoſophers could not …
    With rule
    … the huſband vſe the wife? Becauſe this is the qualitie of that ſexe, to ouerthwartoverthwart, and vpbraide, and ſue the preheminence of their husbandes, therfore the Philoſophers could not …

    Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 52 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … in said of Marcion) if not with a spunge, yet with a peeuish and ouerthwartoverthwart interpretation. And heere let the Nouelist also remember, that both our English reformers, and …
    With rule
    … in said of Marcion) if not with a spunge, yet with a peeuish and ouerthwartoverthwart interpretation. And heere let the Nouelist also remember, that both our English reformers, and …

    John Boys · Exposition of the Principal Scriptures Used in our English Liturgy · p. 79 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.