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	life_n	sin_n	30,740	5	5.1513	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03212	An elegy on the death of that much lamented and no less wanted, industrious labourer in Gods vineyard, the Reverend Mr. Ralph Venning, vvho quitted this vale of tears, and put on immortality the 10th day of this instant March, 1673/4.		1674 (1674)	Wing E393; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.3[155]; ESTC R36105	1,709	1

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