Selected quad for the lemma: head_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
head_n	apostle_n	church_n	word_n	2,623	5	4.2176	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00695	Erōtomania or A treatise discoursing of the essence, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, and cure of love, or erotique melancholy. Written by Iames Ferrand Dr. of Physick; Traité de l'essence et guérison de l'amour. English	Ferrand, Jacques, médecin.; Chilmead, Edmund, 1610-1654.	1640 (1640)	STC 10829; ESTC S102065	141,472	420

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