Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	country_n	firm_a	great_a	25	3	2.1020	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51282	An account of virtue, or, Dr. Henry More's abridgment of morals put into English.; Enchiridion ethicum. English	More, Henry, 1614-1687.; Southwell, Edward, 1671-1730.	1690 (1690)	Wing M2637; ESTC R9573	136,263	290

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