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	think_v	9,849	5	4.3485	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25341	Antient testimony of the primitive Christians and martyrs of Jesus Christ revived against tythes, or, A relation of the sufferings of William Dobson of Slade-end in the parish of Brightwell in Barkshire because for conscience-sake he could not pay tythes ... and for thirteen years was much exercised by imprisonment and loss of goods and the last day of the 3d month call'd May 1677 dyed a prisoner for the same : to which is annexed a short account of the sufferings of Michael Reynolds ... because he could not for conscience-sake pay tythes ...		1680 (1680)	Wing A3074; ESTC R25883	11,756	16

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