Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	dead_a	life_n	live_v	20,689	5	6.0033	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00679	Seldome comes the better: or, An admonition to all sorts of people, as husbands, wiues, masters, and seruants, &c. to auoid mutability, and to fix their minds on what they possesse. To the tuue [sic] of the He-deuill.		1629 (1629)	STC 22179; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.7[382]	1,612	2

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