Selected quad for the lemma: act_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	bear_v	bold_a	great_a	27	3	2.0818	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05092	The theater of fine deuices containing an hundred morall emblemes. First penned in French by Guillaume de la Perriere, and translated into English by Thomas Combe.; Théâtre des bons engins. English	La Perrière, Guillaume de, 1499-1565.; Combe, Thomas, fl. 1593-1614.	1614 (1614)	STC 15230; ESTC S109335	17,968	112

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