Selected quad for the lemma: power_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	law_n	prince_n	sovereign_a	3,774	5	9.4515	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64473	That the trade to Affrica, is only manageable by an incorporated company and a joynt stock, demonstrated in a letter to a member of the present House of Commons, by a gentleman in the City	Gentleman in the city.	1690 (1690)	Wing T841; ESTC R205838	12,911	8

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