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	great_a	king_n	6,693	5	3.8621	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05439	The lives of all the Roman emperors being exactly collected, from Iulius Cæsar, unto the now reigning Ferdinand the second. With their births, governments, remarkable actions, & deaths.; Sommario delle vite de gl'imperadori romani. English	Paoli, Gio Antonio de.; Basset, Robert.; Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.	1636 (1636)	STC 1558; ESTC S101064	79,050	401

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