Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	king_n	scotland_n	send_v	9,393	5	6.3450	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35568	A treatise proving spirits, witches, and supernatural operations, by pregnant instances and evidences together with other things worthy of note / by Meric Casaubon.; Of credulity and incredulity in things natural, civil, and divine	Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671.	1672 (1672)	Wing C815; ESTC R21714	218,874	336

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