Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	peter_n	pope_n	successor_n	2,110	5	8.9988	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54430	An epistle to the Greeks, especially to those in and about Corinth and Athens with certain queries propounded to the priests and doctors, and all the rest of the members and officers belonging unto the two churches of Greeks and Romans, which is of concernment for the view of them all throughout the world / written in Egripo in the island of Negroponte by a servant of the Lord, J.P.	J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?	1661 (1661)	Wing P1617; ESTC R32179	54,226	64

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