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	law_n	power_n	1,453	5	4.7820	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67359	A letter from Sir Hardress Waller and several other gentlemen at Dublin, to Lieutenant General Ludlowe: with his answer to the same.	Waller, Hardress, Sir, 1604?-1666?; Ludlow, Edmund, fl. 1691-1692.	1660 (1660)	Wing W537; ESTC R207292	11,891	16

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