Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	adam_n	fruit_n	tree_n	1,436	5	7.9708	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14727	The vvonders of the load-stone. Or, The load-stone newly reduc't into a divine and morall vse. By Samuel Ward, of Ipswich. B.D.; Magnetis reductorium theologicum tropologicum. English	Ward, Samuel, 1572-1643.; Grimston, Harbottle, Sir, 1603-1685.	1640 (1640)	STC 25030; ESTC S119467	50,652	286

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