Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	act_n	person_n	power_n	4,318	5	5.0707	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77466	A brief relation or remonstrance of the injurious proceedings and inhumane cruelties of the Turks, perpetrated on the commander and company of the ship Lewis of London; with the resolved captivity of their ship, goods and person, by the men of war of Tripoli and Tunis; with their happy escape from them.		1657 (1657)	Wing B4637; Thomason E925_5; ESTC R207557	4,936	7

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