Selected quad for the lemma: church_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	corrupt_a	fear_v	great_a	32	3	2.1343	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14026	Nevves from Turkie. Or a true and perfect relation sent from Constantinople Touching the death of Achmet the last emperour of the Turkes. As also the miraculous deliuerances of Mustapha, (brother to the said Achmet then emperour,) and his strang escapes from his purposed death. Together with the memorable accesse of the said Mustapha into the Turkish empire, and a narration of such things as haue since happened.		1618 (1618)	STC 24333; ESTC S113193	4,133	14

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