Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	commit_v	person_n	say_a	3,727	5	7.2574	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94443	To the High Court of Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The humble petition of a great number of imprisoned free-men for debt, of the city of London, which yet lye in Ludgate, under cruell rigour of the Norman yoke of bondage and slavery, by the cruelty and oppression of their obdurate creditors.		1654 (1654)	Wing T1399; Thomason 669.f.19[39]; ESTC R212112	824	1

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