Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	king_n	law_n	resist_v	2,184	5	9.6676	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10701	Faultes faults, and nothing else but faultes	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1606 (1606)	STC 20983; ESTC S115897	70,812	133

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