Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	author_n	church_n	scripture_n	2,947	5	6.3449	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64738	The nunns complaint against the fryers being the charge given into the court of France, by the nunns of St. Katherine near Provins, against the Fathers Cordeliers their confessours / several times printed in French, and now faithfully done into English.; Factum pour les religieuses de Sainte-Catherine-les-Provins. English	Varet, Alexandre-Louis, 1632-1676.	1676 (1676)	Wing V110; ESTC R34691	69,713	232

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