Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	die_v	fire_n	worm_n	1,088	5	9.7140	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50672	A moral paradox maintaining, that it is much easier to be vertuous then vitious / by Sir George Mackeinzie.	Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.	1667 (1667)	Wing M181; ESTC R19878	25,281	86

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