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	power_n	religion_n	3,708	5	5.7948	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02682	A dialogue or discovrse betweene a Parliament-man and a Roman-Catholick, touching the present state of recusants in England. And shewing how from time to time they have alwaies maintained their religion by treason and conspiracies.		1641 (1641)	Wing D1368A; ESTC R175947	4,988	9

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