Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	absolute_a	according_a	account_n	18	3	6.1639	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40372	An account of Muscovy, as it was in the year 1689 In which the troubles that happen'd in that empire from the present czar Peter's election to the throne, to his being firmly settled in it, are particularly related. With a character of him, and his people. By Monsieur de La Neuville, then residing at Moscow.; Relation curieuse et nouvelle de Moscovie. English.	Foy de la Neuville.; Baillet, Adrien, 1649-1706, attributed name.	1699 (1699)	Wing F2046A; ESTC R201277	48,599	138

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