Selected quad for the lemma: power_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	king_n	law_n	supremacy_n	3,288	5	10.6148	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90222	Observations upon the Provinces United. And on the state of France. Written by Sr Thomas Overbury.; Sir Thomas Overbury his observations in his travailes upon the state of the Xvii. Provinces as they stood anno Dom. 1609.	Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1650 (1650)	Wing O609; Thomason E1317_4; ESTC R203062	13,450	85

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