Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	abbot_n	pope_n	stephen_n	24	3	10.3410	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09741	The happines of a religious state diuided into three bookes. Written in Latin by Fa. Hierome Platus of the Societie of Iesus. And now translated into English.; De bono status religiosi. English	Piatti, Girolamo, 1545-1591.; More, Henry, 1586-1661.	1632 (1632)	STC 20001; ESTC S114787	847,382	644

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