Selected quad for the lemma: king_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
king_n	year_n	yearly_a	young_a	69	3	5.8822	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55466	Popish treachery, or, A short and new account of the horrid cruelties exercised on the Protestants in France being a true prospect of what is to be expected from the most solemn promises of Roman Catholick princes / in a letter from a gentleman of that nation, to one in England, and by him made English.	Gentleman of that nation.	1689 (1689)	Wing P2958; ESTC R1443	10,181	40

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