Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	great_a	king_n	people_n	5,724	5	4.8029	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50807	The midwife unmask'd, or, The popish design of Mrs. Cellier's meal-tub plainly made known being a second answer to her scandalous libel, in short remarques upon the same, for the satisfaction of the people, and the vindication of the justice of the nation, and of several persons of honour by her most vilely abused.		1680 (1680)	Wing M2002; ESTC R15188	5,713	4

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