Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	wood_n	word_n	write_v	18	3	5.0698	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26919	The divine life in three treatises ... by Richard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1664 (1664)	Wing B1254; ESTC R3168	316,514	416

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