Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	choose_v	year_n	yearly_a	32	3	9.9464	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89190	Edicts upon the ordaining and establishing of a common-place, and jurisdiction, of the priors and consulls of the merchants of the citie of Roan. Together with the letters, pattents, and declarations of His Maiestie, since that time made with the approbations, and regulating thereupon ensuing in the court of Parliament of the same citie. / Translated out of French into English, for the benefit, and use of merchants. By Peter Mitton.	Mitton, Peter, translator.	1645 (1645)	Wing M2295; Thomason E1159_1; ESTC R210084	65,536	216

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