Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	duke_n	france_n	king_n	8,145	5	4.2048	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11934	The lyfe of the most godly, valeant and noble capteine and maintener of the trew Christian religion in Fraunce, Iasper Colignie Shatilion, sometyme greate admirall of Fraunce. Translated out of Latin by Arthur Golding; Gasparis Colinii Castilloni, magni quondam Franciae amerallii, vita. English.	Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.; Serres, Jean de, 1540?-1598, attributed name.; Hotman, Jean, seigneur de Villers-Saint-Paul, 1552-1636, attributed name.; Hotman, François, 1524-1590, attributed name.	1576 (1576)	STC 22248; ESTC S117200	64,379	124

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