Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	king_n	lord_n	year_n	9,908	5	5.2358	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19333	Thus endeth the prologue of this book named. Cordʻyal. Whiche treteth of the four last and final thinges that ben to come ...; Cordiale quattuor novissimorum. English.	Denis, the Carthusian, 1402-1471, attributed name.; Gerardus, de Vliederhoven, 14th cent, attributed name.; Rivers, Anthony Woodville, Earl, 1442?-1483.; Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491. ed.	1479 (1480)	STC 5758; ESTC S106511	87,382	154

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