Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50197 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

poictouPoitou

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it: 327 times in 23 works
Consistency: 100% (327 of 327)
Reach if approved: ~344 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 327 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (327 changes in 23 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 327)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… to condeſcend, that they will not communicate wi…h Athanaſius? And Hilary Biſhop of PoictouPoitou Ann. 360. in his firſt Book againſt this Tyrannical Arrian Emperour Conſtantius, thus cenſures his …
With rule
… to condeſcend, that they will not communicate wi…h Athanaſius? And Hilary Biſhop of PoictouPoitou Ann. 360. in his firſt Book againſt this Tyrannical Arrian Emperour Conſtantius, thus cenſures his …
William Prynne · Historical Vindication Part 1 and 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Which authentick Bulls, he saith, were then to be seen at Vienne, Limoges and PoictouPoitou. It is notorious to the world what complaints were made in Germany after his …
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… Which authentick Bulls, he saith, were then to be seen at Vienne, Limoges and PoictouPoitou. It is notorious to the world what complaints were made in Germany after his …
Edward Stillingfleet · Concerning Idolatry in the Church of Rome · p. 503 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ruine them without hope of riſing: So they arme on all ſides, eſpecially in PoictouPoitou; the Proteſtants are beſieged, aſſaulted in many places, and ſo manfully repulſe their aſſa …
With rule
… ruine them without hope of riſing: So they arme on all ſides, eſpecially in PoictouPoitou; the Proteſtants are beſieged, aſſaulted in many places, and ſo manfully repulſe their aſſa …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments Part 4 · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… One more ennobled with his descent from the ancient family of the Lusignans in PoictouPoitou, then for any eminencie in himself: His gifts were better then his endowments. Yet …
With rule
… One more ennobled with his descent from the ancient family of the Lusignans in PoictouPoitou, then for any eminencie in himself: His gifts were better then his endowments. Yet …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 102 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Navarre. Therefore he commanded the Duke Ioyense to keepe the King of Navarre in PoictouPoitou, and rather to hazard battell, then suffer him to passe the river of Loire …
With rule
… Navarre. Therefore he commanded the Duke Ioyense to keepe the King of Navarre in PoictouPoitou, and rather to hazard battell, then suffer him to passe the river of Loire …
Patrick Simson · The History of the Church Since the Days of Christ · p. 238 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Moncontour. Soon after followed the Country of Aulnis, of Xantoyn, and the rest of PoictouPoitou: Then St. Maxent, Neel, Aulnay: Then Benaon, Marant, Surgers, Fontency, and at last they …
With rule
… Moncontour. Soon after followed the Country of Aulnis, of Xantoyn, and the rest of PoictouPoitou: Then St. Maxent, Neel, Aulnay: Then Benaon, Marant, Surgers, Fontency, and at last they …
Samuel Clarke · The Life and Death of Black Prince Edward · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… men, thoſe great Champions of Antichriſt, found ſo much favor from Alphonſus Earle of PoictouPoitou, another brother of Lewis King of France, as that he, by threats and terrors …
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… men, thoſe great Champions of Antichriſt, found ſo much favor from Alphonſus Earle of PoictouPoitou, another brother of Lewis King of France, as that he, by threats and terrors …
Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 3 · p. 154 · Open in the reader
Printed
Hilarius Pictaviensis Antistes, Bishop of PoictouPoitou in France.
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Hilarius Pictaviensis Antistes, Bishop of PoictouPoitou in France.
Edward Leigh · Treatise of Religion and Learning · p. 223 · Open in the reader

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