Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	bishop_n	king_n	power_n	6,810	5	5.2090	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58499	Remarks upon a late pamphlet entituled, A brief and full account of Mr. Tate's and Mr. Brady's New version of the Psalms by a Divine of the Church of England.	A. B.; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715. New version of the Psalms of David.; Brady, Nicholas, 1659-1726.	1699 (1699)	Wing R937; ESTC R2258	11,050	28

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