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	people_n	tyrant_n	2,833	5	9.5249	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05078	A true and exact copy of a prodigious and traiterous libel, affixt upon the church-door of Kettle, in Fife, the third of this instant, being Easter-day; / written and subscribed by James Russel, one of those bloody and sacrilegious murtherers of the late Lord Primate of Scotland, His Grace.	Russell, James, of Kettle.	1681 (1681)	Wing R2341; ESTC R182896	6,970	12

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