Selected quad for the lemma: power_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	heir_n	say_a	successor_n	2,638	5	9.6943	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37551	The case of the governour and company of merchants of London, trading to the East-Indies, humbly represented to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled.	East India Company.; Blackborne, Robert.	1698 (1698)	Wing E100BB; ESTC R213531	11,745	11

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