Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	advantage_n	great_a	king_n	1,350	5	3.4791	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13851	Christian wisdome, or The excellency fame and right meanes of true wisdome As it was briefly delivered in a sermon in St Maries Church in Oxford. Novemb: 11. 1638. By H. Tozer B. D. Fellow of Exeter Colledge.	Tozer, Henry, 1602-1650.	1639 (1639)	STC 24159; ESTC S121020	22,673	117

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