Selected quad for the lemma: church_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	ancient_a	father_n	primitive_a	3,741	5	8.1245	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84981	A full answer to a scandalous pamphlet, intituled, A character of a London diurnall.		1645 (1645)	Wing F2340; Thomason E277_11; ESTC R200008	7,638	16

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