Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	body_n	church_n	whole_a	2,235	5	5.6933	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08240	The copie of a letter sente to one maister Chrispyne chanon of Exceter for that he denied ye scripture to be the touche stone or trial of al other doctrines whereunto is added an appologie and a bulworke, in defe[n]ce of the same letter.	Nicolls, Philip.	1548 (1548)	STC 18575; ESTC S104162	27,471	96

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capit._fw-la xlv_o tomo_fw-la xi_o ca._n pite_n iii._n capit._fw-la xxiii_o capt._n i._n de_fw-fr fide_fw-la ca._n v._n libr._n iii._n epist_n iii._n libr._n i_o cap._n l_o vi_fw-mi corh_fw-mi i._o math._n nineteeen_o math._n xx_o john_n xx_o tractatu_fw-la xlix_o capit._fw-la ix_o supper_n john_n capit._n twelve_o capi._n iii._n