Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	dead_a	die_v	4,346	5	5.5733	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41736	The critick written originally in Spanish by Lorenzo Gracian ... ; and translated into English by Paul Rycaut, Esq.; Criticón. English	Gracián y Morales, Baltasar, 1601-1658.; Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.	1681 (1681)	Wing G1470; ESTC R23428	159,995	290

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