Selected quad for the lemma: act_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	canon_n	council_n	hold_v	2,974	5	9.1407	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55118	A little view of this old vvorld in two books ... a work fitted to the press five years agone, and now published, by Tho. Palmer.	Palmer, Thomas, b. ca. 1620.	1659 (1659)	Wing P253; ESTC R17862	95,299	212

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