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	king_n	troop_n	1,004	5	8.6801	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88019	A letter sent to George Wither, poetica licentia Esquire, by a plain dealing friend of his to prevent his future pseudography.	Alethegraphus.	1646 (1646)	Wing L1617; Thomason E365_24; ESTC R38553	5,617	8

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