Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	die_v	see_v	5,409	5	3.4069	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36504	Daimonomageia a small treatise of sicknesses and diseases from witchcraft, and supernatural causes : never before, at least in this comprised order, and general manner, was the like published : being useful to others besides physicians, in that it confutes atheistical, sadducistical, and sceptical principles and imaginations.	Drage, William, 1637?-1669.	1665 (1665)	Wing D2117; ESTC R37769	35,637	43

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