Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	chief_a	good_a	great_a	454	4	2.1029	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95921	The Count of Gabalis, or, Conferences about secret sciences rendered out of French into English by A.L. ...; Comte de Gabalis. English	Villars, abbé de (Nicolas-Pierre-Henri), 1635-1673.	1680 (1680)	Wing V386B; ESTC R226487	50,429	145

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