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	province_n	unite_a	2,579	5	10.4909	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54594	The revelation unvailed, or, An essay towards the discovering I. When many Scripture prophesies had their accomplishment, and turned into history, II. What are now fulfilling, III. What rest still to be fulfilled, with a guess at the time of them : with an appendix, proving that pagan Rome was not Babylon, Rev. 17, and that the Jews shall be converted / by Samuel Petto.	Petto, Samuel, 1624?-1711.	1693 (1693)	Wing P1901; ESTC R33395	87,755	184

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