Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	age_n	life_n	old_a	5,148	5	5.6715	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03030	Meditations miscellaneous, holy and humane	Henshaw, Joseph, 1603-1679.	1637 (1637)	STC 13171; ESTC S122577	25,437	149

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