Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	wish_v	word_n	worst_a	14	3	8.3365	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54839	The divine purity defended, or, A vindication of some notes concerning God's decrees, especially of reprobation, from the censure of D. Reynolds in his epistolary praeface to Mr. Barlee's correptory correction by Thomas Pierce ...	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1659 (1659)	Wing P2180A; ESTC R181791	123,156	150

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