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	life_n	nature_n	5,551	5	5.2232	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63842	A discourse of the government of the thoughts by George Tullie ...	Tullie, George, 1652?-1695.	1694 (1694)	Wing T3238; ESTC R1827	60,979	194

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