Selected quad for the lemma: knowledge_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	darkness_n	heart_n	shine_v	3,010	5	9.0570	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14281	A method, or briefe instruction; verie profitable and speedy, for the reading and vnderstanding of the old and new Testament The one expounding the other according to the sence and meaning of our our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ.	Vaughan, Edward, preacher at St. Mary Woolnoth.	1590 (1590)	STC 24597; ESTC S103028	33,102	140

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