Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	authority_n	king_n	law_n	1,296	5	4.5981	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19146	An answere to the examination that is sayde to haue bene made of one named Iohn de Poltrot, calling himself the Lord of Merey, vpon the death of the late Duke of Guyse by the Lord of Chastillon admyrall of Fraunce, and others named in the saide examination. At Caen. 1562; Response a l'interrogatoire qu'on dit avoir este faite a un nommé Jean de Poltrot, soy disant seigneur de Merey, sur la mort du feu duc de Guyse. English	Coligny, Gaspard de, seigneur de Châtillon, 1519-1572.	1563 (1563)	STC 5553; ESTC S105034	15,381	50

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