Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	get_v	year_n	young_a	28	3	6.2911	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81528	A discovery of divers sorts of asses: with the description of their condition, setting them forth in proper colours, according to Smithfields fancies and inventions Also, follies petition against all sorts of fooles and asses, desiring to have them banisht to the Ile of Sillie.		1642 (1642)	Wing D1640; ESTC R230055	3,347	8

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