Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	church_n	great_a	time_n	5,546	4	3.4499	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80585	A relation of the state of the court of Rome made in the year 1661. at the council of Pregadi. By the most excellent, the Lord Angelo Corraro, ambassador from the most serene republique of Venice to Pope Alexander VII. Translated our of Italian by J.B. Gent.; Relazione della corte romana fatta l'anno 1661. English	Ferrare du Tot, Charles de, d. 1694.; Correr, Angelo, 1605-1678, attributed name.; Bulteel, John, fl. 1683.	1664 (1664)	Wing C6344B; ESTC R200886	64,711	128

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