Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	work_v	world_n	wrath_n	91	3	6.9894	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41726	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall on Christmas-Day, 1684 Humfrey Gower ...	Gower, Humphrey, 1638-1711.	1685 (1685)	Wing G1459; ESTC R3870	19,094	36

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