Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bring_v	dead_a	sin_n	4,130	5	4.9460	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67886	The perfection, authority, and credibility of the Holy Scriptures. Discoursed in a sermon before the University of Cambridge, at the commencement, July 4. 1658. / By Nathanael Ingelo D.D. and Fellow of Eton Coll.	Ingelo, Nathaniel, 1621?-1683.	1658 (1658)	Wing I185; ESTC R202593	49,263	216

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