Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	canon_n	church_n	council_n	4,124	5	7.0362	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16173	The second part of the reformation of a Catholike deformed by Master W. Perkins	Bishop, William, 1554?-1624.	1607 (1607)	STC 3097; ESTC S1509	252,809	248

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