Selected quad for the lemma: country_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
country_n	great_a	nation_n	people_n	3,453	5	4.2492	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03132	Reasons offered to the consideration of His Grace, His Majesties High Commissioner, and the Hononrable [sic] Estates of Parliament, by several salt-masters, against the Act for a manufactorie of salt npon [sic] salt, given in by Mr. William Areskin Governour of Blackness Castle.	Erskine, William, d. 1700.	1696 (1696)	Wing E3249B; ESTC R176772	949	1

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