Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	lord_n	word_n	9,286	5	4.0695	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42492	The religious & loyal protestation of John Gauden, Dr. in Divinity, against the present declared purposes and proceedings of the army and others about the trying and destroying our Soveraign Lord the King sent to a collonell to bee presented to the Lord Fairfax and his generall councell of officers, the fift of January 1648 [O.S.]	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1649 (1649)	Wing G367; ESTC R18555	7,799	18

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