Selected quad for the lemma: nation_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nation_n	peculiar_a	people_n	priesthood_n	1,265	5	9.7438	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03949	Bromelion A discourse of the most substantial points of diuinitie, handled by diuers common places: vvith great studie, sinceritie, and perspicuitie. Whose titles you haue in the next page following.	S. I., fl. 1595.; Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605. Summa totius Christianismi. English.	1595 (1595)	STC 14057; ESTC S107410	412,250	588

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