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	power_n	secular_a	1,359	5	10.4493	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57683	A sermon preached at a visitation in Honiton in Devon, on Wensday in Easter week, 1676 by J.R. Rector of Lezant in Cornwall.	J. R. (James Rossington), b. 1642 or 3.	1676 (1676)	Wing R1995; ESTC R23078	23,190	40

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