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	son_n	year_n	8,542	5	4.8430	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66253	Preparation for death being a letter sent to a young gentlewoman in France, in a dangerous distemper of which she died.	Wake, William, 1657-1737.	1687 (1687)	Wing W253; ESTC R5512	22,586	170

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