Selected quad for the lemma: act_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	king_n	law_n	treason_n	3,277	5	8.9802	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90209	The independent's loyalty. Or, The most barbarous plot (to murther his sacred Majestie) very fully discovered. With a cleere and perfect answer, to the Lord Wharton's evasions.	Osborne, Richard, fl. 1648.	1648 (1648)	Wing O528; Thomason E452_25; ESTC R203027	16,982	23

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