Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	law_n	people_n	power_n	6,970	5	5.1237	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79473	Chillingworthi novissima. Or, The sicknesse, heresy, death and buriall of William Chillingworth. (In his own phrase) Clerk of Oxford, and in the conceit of his fellow souldiers, the Queens arch-engineer, and grand-intelligencer. Set forth in a letter to his eminent and learned friends, a relation of his apprehension at Arundell, a discovery of his errours in a briefe catechism, and a shorr [sic] oration at the buriall of his hereticall book. By Francis Cheynell, late fellow of Merton Colledge. Published by authority.	Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.	1644 (1644)	Wing C3810; Thomason E36_7; ESTC R13256	46,148	66

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{non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o {non-roman}_o ezek._n 8._o 16._o ezek._n 8._o 17._o 18._o isa._n 50._o ult._n isa._n 8._o 9_o 10._o ubi_fw-la jus_fw-la humanum_fw-la naturale_fw-la vel_fw-la divinum_fw-la arma_fw-la e●pere_fw-la jubet_fw-la ibi_fw-la juris_fw-la autoritas_fw-la intervenit_fw-la etiamsi_fw-la expressa_fw-la voluntas_fw-la principis_fw-la non_fw-la accedat_fw-la biel._n 4._o sent._n q._n 4._o d_o ferne_n his_o 2._o book_n p._n 33._o d_o fern_n ib._n p._n 27_o d_o fern_n 2._o book_n p._n 6._o book_n 2_o p._n 34._o book_n 2._o p_n 28._o book_n 2._o pag._n 6._o 2_o book_n p._n 28._o ib._n ubi_fw-la supra_fw-la 2_o book_n p._n 16._o iudg._n 9_o 24._o *_o ac_fw-la ne_fw-la maledicis_fw-la verborum_fw-la in_fw-la eos_fw-la uti_fw-la conviciis_fw-la arguamur_fw-la causam_fw-la perditionis_fw-la publicae_fw-la ne_fw-la cuiquam_fw-la ignota_fw-la sit_fw-la non_fw-la tacemus_fw-la hilar._n contra_fw-la arian_n p._n 214_o iudg._n 9_o 19_o 20_o 23_o and_o 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