Selected quad for the lemma: act_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	faith_n	heart_n	purify_v	2,568	5	11.6551	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53980	A sermon preach'd at Whitehall before the Queen, March the sixteenth, 1691 by Edward Pelling ...	Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.	1692 (1692)	Wing P1101; ESTC R6815	11,035	34

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