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	parliament_n	void_a	3,949	5	9.2539	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84303	An Extract of a letter from Yorke. Dated on Friday night, August 5. 1642.		1642 (1642)	Wing E3905; Thomason E109_29; ESTC R7185	1,986	7

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