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	good_a	sin_n	4,688	5	4.5398	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67824	A sermon concerning the wisdom of fearing God preach'd at Salisbury, on Sunday, July XXX, 1693 : being the time of the assizes / by E. Young ...	Young, Edward, 1641 or 2-1705.	1693 (1693)	Wing Y63; ESTC R6328	10,022	32

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