Selected quad for the lemma: state_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	earl_n	lord_n	privy_a	1,083	5	10.8625	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40781	Cryptomenysis patefacta, or, The art of secret information disclosed without a key containing, plain and demonstrative rules, for decyphering all manner of secret writing with exact methods, for resolving secret intimations by signs or gestures, or in speech : as also an inquiry into the secret ways of conveying written messages, and the several mysterious proposals for secret information, mentioned by Trithemius, &c. / by J. F.	J. F. (John Falconer)	1685 (1685)	Wing F296; ESTC R6319	86,972	206

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