Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	cause_n	young_a	youth_n	14	3	7.5689	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35338	The history of Ioseph a poem / written by Daniel Cudmore, Gent.	Cudmore, Daniel, 17th cent.	1652 (1652)	Wing C7462; ESTC R20251	50,447	84

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