Selected quad for the lemma: head_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
head_n	body_n	church_n	mystical_a	8,413	5	10.9727	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20466	The second part of a plain discourse of an unlettered Christian wherein by way of demonstration hee shevveth vvhat the reasons bee vvhich hee doth ground upon in refusing conformity to kneeling in the act of receiving the Lords Supper / by Tho. Dighton ...	Dighton, Thomas, fl. 1618-1619.	1619 (1619)	STC 6877; ESTC S1696	42,581	96

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