Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	able_a	good_a	great_a	1,134	5	2.2414	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70272	A free discourse wherein the doctrines which make for tyranny are display'd the title of our rightful and lawful King William vindicated, and the unreasonableness and mischievous tendency of the odious distinction of a king de facto, and de jure, discover'd / by a Person of Honour.	Person of honour.; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.; Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698.	1697 (1697)	Wing H2995A; ESTC R10075	41,911	132

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