Selected quad for the lemma: power_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	government_n	king_n	monarchy_n	2,757	5	9.5091	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23813	The grand conspiracy of the members against the mind, of Jews against their King as it hath been delivered in the four following sermons / by John Allington, (a sequestered divine).	Allington, John, d. 1682.	1654 (1654)	Wing A1209; ESTC R15485	77,977	218

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