Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	great_a	let_v	sin_n	3,204	5	4.8509	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31343	The catterpillers of this nation anatomized, in a brief yet notable discovery of house-breakers, pick-pockets, &c. together with the life of a penitent high-way-man, discovering the mystery of that infernal society : to which is added, the manner of hectoring & trapanning, as it is acted in and about the city of London.		1659 (1659)	Wing C1490; ESTC R8926	25,952	45

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