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	great_a	time_n	7,743	5	3.4082	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36945	Arcana aulica, or, Walsingham's manual of prudential maxims for the states-man and the courtier; Traicté de la cour. Part 2. English	Refuge, Eustache de, d. 1617.; Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590.; Walsingham, Edward, d. 1663.	1652 (1652)	Wing D2683; ESTC R15739	68,004	176

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