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	sin_n	soul_n	27,664	5	5.3490	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49633	The Last dying speeches, confession, and execution of Rice Evans, Margaret Corbet, Elizabeth Ford alias Jackson, and Katharine Binks, who were executed on Kennington Common in the county of Surrey, the 19th of March 1683/4 for murders, fflonies [sic], and burglaries : with the manner of their behaviour in the Marshalsea prison after their condemnation.		1684 (1684)	Wing L482C; ESTC R213472	4,342	4

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