Selected quad for the lemma: nation_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nation_n	great_a	judgement_n	people_n	2,906	5	4.6565	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97114	A character of His most Sacred Majesty King Charles the IId. With a short apologie before it, an introduction to it, and a conclusion after it. / Written by a minister of the Word, who hath for a long time desired, and daily prayed for the happy settlement of Church and state within the three nations of England, Scotland and Ireland in truth, & peace, & order.	Terry, Edward, 1590-1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing W696A; Thomason E1836_3; ESTC R21751	17,958	39

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