Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	empire_n	great_a	king_n	3,618	5	3.5388	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13399	The garden of wysdom wherin ye maye gather moste pleasaunt flowres, that is to say, proper wytty and quycke sayenges of princes, philosophers, and dyuers other sortes of men. Drawen forth of good authours, as well Grekes as Latyns, by Richard Tauerner.; Garden of wysdom. Book 1	Taverner, Richard, 1505?-1575.; Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. Apophthegmata.	1539 (1539)	STC 23711A; ESTC S111348	26,718	98

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