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	son_n	7,972	5	5.0682	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31005	An elegy on the death of the Reverend Doctor John Goad late master of Merchant-taylors-school, London, who departed this life the 28th. of October, 1689 / by Joshua Barnes, B.D.	Barnes, Joshua, 1654-1712.	1689 (1689)	Wing B869; ESTC R40748	1,370	2

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