Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	world_n	writer_n	writing_n	13	3	8.4779	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37175	An exhortation to brotherly communion betwixt the Protestant churches written by ... John Davenant ...	Davenant, John, ca. 1572-1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing D318; ESTC R1793	83,948	242

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