Selected quad for the lemma: majesty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
majesty_n	john_n	sir_n	walter_n	3,067	5	12.4478	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52617	The history of the affairs of Europe in this present age, but more particularly of the republick of Venice written in Italian by Battista Nani ... ; Englished by Sir Robert Honywood, Knight.; Historia della republica Veneta. English	Nani, Battista, 1616-1678.; Honywood, Robert, Sir, 1601-1686.	1673 (1673)	Wing N151; ESTC R5493	641,123	610

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