Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8761 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ouerthrowesoverthrows

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

Puritas changed it: 236 times in 113 works
Consistency: 100% (236 of 236)
Reach if approved: ~248 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: overthrows
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 236 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (236 changes in 113 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 236)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… enough by the Turkes and Saracenes for our idolatrie, if we respect the sundrie ouerthrowesoverthrows, famines, slaughters, and alterations of kingdomes, wherewith the Christians haue bene miserably tormented manie …
With rule
… enough by the Turkes and Saracenes for our idolatrie, if we respect the sundrie ouerthrowesoverthrows, famines, slaughters, and alterations of kingdomes, wherewith the Christians haue bene miserably tormented manie …
John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader
Printed
1. Our immoderate diet: indeede not diet, for that contents nature, but surfet, that ouerthrowesoverthrows nature: this is waste. Plaine M^r. Naball made a feast like a Prince. Diues …
With rule
1. Our immoderate diet: indeede not diet, for that contents nature, but surfet, that ouerthrowesoverthrows nature: this is waste. Plaine M^r. Naball made a feast like a Prince. Diues …
Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Frenſhemen at Bullogne, and the wynnyng of the ſame imaculte & mayden towne, with ſonderye ouerthrowesoverthrows of the Scottes. But moſt wonderfull thynge of all is the reſtitucion out of …
With rule
… Frenſhemen at Bullogne, and the wynnyng of the ſame imaculte & mayden towne, with ſonderye ouerthrowesoverthrows of the Scottes. But moſt wonderfull thynge of all is the reſtitucion out of …
Philipp Melanchthon · A Civil Nosegay · Open in the reader
Printed
… But how false this is, euen common experience doth shew. Lastly, this platforme quite ouerthrowesoverthrows it selfe. For whereas all men equally corrupt in Adam, are effectually both redeemed …
With rule
… But how false this is, euen common experience doth shew. Lastly, this platforme quite ouerthrowesoverthrows it selfe. For whereas all men equally corrupt in Adam, are effectually both redeemed …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 475 · Open in the reader
Printed
… glories: his study is to do mischiefe, and in the ruine of kingdoms he ouerthrowesoverthrows many, and therefore heereunto hee endeuours himselfe with might and maine. Hence come insurrections …
With rule
… glories: his study is to do mischiefe, and in the ruine of kingdoms he ouerthrowesoverthrows many, and therefore heereunto hee endeuours himselfe with might and maine. Hence come insurrections …
William Perkins · The Combat Between Christ and the Devil Displayed · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… without the word no hope of this benefit. And this that hath beene ſaid ouerthrowesoverthrows a point of naturall and Popiſh religion, viz. That a man may be iuſtified …
With rule
… without the word no hope of this benefit. And this that hath beene ſaid ouerthrowesoverthrows a point of naturall and Popiſh religion, viz. That a man may be iuſtified …
Nehemiah Rogers · A Strange Vineyard in Palestine · p. 143 · Open in the reader
Printed
… late, ioyned with them, and sundred from them, haue receiued very fearefull falles and ouerthrowesoverthrows: For all is one with Satan, so he catch and snatch men, and haue …
With rule
… late, ioyned with them, and sundred from them, haue receiued very fearefull falles and ouerthrowesoverthrows: For all is one with Satan, so he catch and snatch men, and haue …
Henry Smith · Jacobs Ladder · Open in the reader
Printed
… albeit they haue neuer so often the repulse, and receiue neuer so many shamefull ouerthrowesoverthrows by setting themselues against the godly, yet they will neuer learne to leaue off …
With rule
… albeit they haue neuer so often the repulse, and receiue neuer so many shamefull ouerthrowesoverthrows by setting themselues against the godly, yet they will neuer learne to leaue off …
John Udall · True Remedy Against Famine and Wars · 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.