Selected quad for the lemma: state_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	king_n	lord_n	privy_a	1,130	5	10.1228	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07035	The art of fortification, or architecture militaire as vvell offensiue as defensiue, compiled & set forth, by Samuell Marolois revievved, augmented and corrected by Albert Girard mathematician: & translated out of French into English by Henry Hexam; Opera mathematica. Part 3.	Marolois, Samuel.; Girard, Albert, 1595-1632.; Hexham, Henry, 1585?-1650?	1631 (1631)	STC 17451; ESTC S101439	115,154	146

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