Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	army_n	battle_n	fight_n	1,135	5	8.9229	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90141	The reall victorie of Portugall, against the povvers of Spaine. And her veritie, confronting the Castilian lyes. / Coppied out of the relations that came from Lisboa by Baltazar Oliveras.	Oliveras, Balthazar.	1644 (1644)	Wing O284; Thomason E253_12; ESTC R210066	4,148	8

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