Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	worthy_a	write_v	year_n	65	3	4.7613	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06140	The pilgrimage of princes, penned out of sundry Greeke and Latine aucthours, by Lodovvicke Lloid Gent	Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.	1573 (1573)	STC 16624; ESTC S108781	286,699	458

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