Selected quad for the lemma: evil_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
evil_n	evil_a	good_a	overcome_v	2,606	5	9.6216	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83980	Englands new-yeares gift, or, A pearle for a prince: with such grapes from thornes, and fruits from foes, to the whole land, as none shall be worse for wrongs, nor hurt by any but themselves, though the times should prove worse and worse.		1648 (1648)	Wing E3004; Thomason E424_4; ESTC R204545	38,288	40

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