Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	england_n	great_a	king_n	4,201	5	3.7869	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58378	Reflections upon that act of the Gloucester Common-Council which occasioned Dr. Fowler's printing his Discourse of offences : together with A short reply to the late scandalous queries offered to the Reverend Dean of Canterbury.		1683 (1683)	Wing R724; ESTC R2255	7,405	15

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