Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	king_n	pope_n	3,065	5	6.1057	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75763	The atheisticall polititian or A briefe discourse concerning Ni. Machiavell.		1642 (1642)	Wing A4109; Thomason E127_43; ESTC R4648	4,935	7

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