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	die_v	world_n	5,340	5	4.5882	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26152	A discourse occasion'd by the death of the Right Honourable the Lady Cutts by Francis Atterbury ...	Atterbury, Francis, 1662-1732.	1698 (1698)	Wing A4149; ESTC R35288	17,784	48

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