Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	woman_n	write_v	year_n	129	3	4.3369	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88706	The true effigies, or portraicture of the chief philosophers, historians, poets, grammarians, and oratours. Or, A compendious view of each, both dignified with, and distinguished by, their peculiar characters. By Ed. Larkin, A.M. late fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge, and now of Limesfield in Surrey minister	Larkin, Edward, 1623-1688.	1659 (1659)	Wing L445; Thomason E1786_1; ESTC R202702	74,354	230

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