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	separation_n	4,198	5	9.8832	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30096	An essay of transmigration, in defence of Pythagoras, or, A discourse of natural philosophy	Bulstrode, Whitelocke, 1650-1724.	1692 (1692)	Wing B5450; ESTC R16493	53,371	249

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