Selected quad for the lemma: power_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	church_n	ecclesiastical_a	synod_n	2,937	5	9.6304	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61701	The religion of the Dutch represented in several letters from a Protestant officer in the French army to a pastor and professor of divinity at Berne in Switserland ; out of the French.; Religion des Hollandois. English	Stoppa, Giovanni Battista.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.	1680 (1680)	Wing S5769; ESTC R8262	51,056	72

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