Selected quad for the lemma: state_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	church_n	civil_a	commonwealth_n	1,637	5	9.2456	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90358	Anglorum singultus: or, The sobbs of England, poured out. To be presented to His Excellency Generall George Monke.	Peirce, Edmund, Sir, d. 1667.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1059; Thomason E774_3; ESTC R203311	7,350	11

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