Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	age_n	censure_n	great_a	28	3	2.0815	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31114	A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and citizens of London at St. Lawrence Jewry, on the feast of St. Michael, 1698, at the election of the Lord Mayor for the year ensuing / by Samuel Barton ...	Barton, Samuel, 1647 or 8-1715.	1698 (1698)	Wing B995; ESTC R58	10,157	32

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