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	time_n	word_n	3,610	5	4.0576	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95981	The purifying of vnclean hearts and hands: opened in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their solemne fast, January 28. 1645. in Margarets Westminster. / By Richard Vines, one of the Assembly of Divines. Published by order of the House of Commons.	Vines, Richard, 1600?-1656.	1646 (1646)	Wing V565; Thomason E319_12; ESTC R200558	18,186	35

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