Selected quad for the lemma: act_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	council_n	parliament_n	privy_a	2,717	5	9.7040	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47752	Querela temporum, or, The danger of the Church of England in a letter from the Dean of ----- to ----- Prebend of.	Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722.	1694 (1694)	Wing L1142; ESTC R7679	24,869	29

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