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
A59061	The sad and lamentable cry of oppression and cruelty in the city of Bristol Relating to the prosecution of certain dissenting-Protestants in some passages most notorious to the grieved inhabitants of the said city.		1682 (1682)	Wing S241; ESTC R219827	2,534	11

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