Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	great_a	king_n	parliament_n	3,205	5	6.3516	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79979	The cloak in its colours; or The Presbyterian unmasked, and proved as dangerous as papists to the Church of England Together with a brief and seasonable ansvver to their late unseasonable queries, and list of the pensioners, humbly offer'd to all true Protestant conformists.		1679 (1679)	Wing C4719B; ESTC R223880	10,265	12

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