Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	church_n	elder_n	pastor_n	2,080	5	9.0862	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91834	Albania or, Certaine concernments of Great Britanny. With an explication of the present state thereof; truely represented under the faigned person of Albania. / By George Raleigh.	Raleigh, George, b. 1600?	1641 (1641)	Wing R150; Thomason E179_16; ESTC R7782	47,700	65

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