Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	foreign_a	power_n	superiority_n	2,401	5	12.0173	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39917	Parallēla dysparallēla, or, The loyal subjects indignation for his royal sovereign's decollation expressed in an unparallel'd parallel between the professed murtherer of K. Saul and the horrid actual murtherers of King Charles I the substance whereof was delivered in a sermon preached at Allhallows Church in Northhampton on (the day appointed for an anniversary humiliation in reference to that execrable fact) Jan. 30, 1660 / by Simon Ford.	Ford, Simon, 1619?-1699.	1661 (1661)	Wing F1491; ESTC R2735	45,646	57

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