Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	witness_n	woman_n	word_n	26	3	4.0430	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39031	The excellent woman described by her true characters and their opposites	Dorrington, Theophilus, d. 1715.	1692 (1692)	Wing E3838; ESTC R21842	158,291	335

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