Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	charity_n	faith_n	temperance_n	1,579	5	10.7522	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65537	Collyrium a sermon of destructive ignorance and saving knowledge, preached in Christ-Church, Dublin, August 4, 1672, and published at the importunity of divers, who thought it might tend to disabuse many well-meaning people / by Edw. Wetenhall.	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1672 (1672)	Wing W1493; ESTC R28387	16,353	40

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