Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	fruit_n	good_a	tree_n	4,708	5	8.6623	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69015	An Englis[h] expositor[:] teaching the in[ter]pretation of the harde[st] words [vsed] in our language. With sundry [ex]plicat[ions, de]scriptions [, and d]iscourses. By I.B. ...	J. B. (John Bullokar)	1621 (1621)	STC 4084; ESTC S115630	109,867	269

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