Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	person_n	say_a	session_n	3,171	5	10.8441	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53174	Observations upon a paper intituled, Reasons humbly offered to this honourable House why a Bill pretended to give further powers to the Corporation for setting the poor of the city of London and liberties thereof to work, should not pass into a law.		1700 (1700)	Wing O108A; ESTC R223774	1,600	1

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