Selected quad for the lemma: state_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	great_a	king_n	power_n	5,981	5	4.7809	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A24391	An Account of a vindication of the English Catholicks from the pretended conspiracy against the life and government of His Sacred Majesty undertaking to discover the chief falsities and contradictions contained in the narrative of Titus Oates, &c.		1681 (1681)	Wing A194; ESTC R6713	36,984	36

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