Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	law_n	life_n	power_n	7,966	5	5.2131	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66244	A practical discourse concerning swearing especially in the two great points of perjury and common-swearing / by William Wake ...	Wake, William, 1657-1737.	1696 (1696)	Wing W252; ESTC R38405	66,425	210

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