Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	die_v	great_a	king_n	8,350	5	3.6186	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58057	Monsieur Rapin's Comparison of Thucydides and Livy translated into English.; Comparaison de Thucydide et de Tite-Live. English	Rapin, René, 1621-1687.; Taylor, Thomas, 1669 or 70-1735.	1694 (1694)	Wing R261; ESTC R9242	64,939	178

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