Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	ability_n	able_a	acknowledge_v	14	3	6.3927	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19787	The office and authoritie of sherifes. Abridged by the former author Mich. Dalton, of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire; Officium vicecomitum. Abridgments.	Dalton, Michael, d. 1648?	1628 (1628)	STC 6213; ESTC S116874	144,803	487

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