Selected quad for the lemma: diversity_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
diversity_n	according_a	body_n	disease_n	68	4	7.3578	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63407	A collection of several relations and treatises singular and curious of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne not printed among his first six voyages ... / published by Edmund Everard, Esquire ...	Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, 1605-1689.; Everard, Edmund.	1680 (1680)	Wing T250; ESTC R35212	152,930	194

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