Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	aaron_n	add_v	crown_n	20	3	7.7418	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11462	Sermons made by the most reuerende Father in God, Edwin, Archbishop of Yorke, primate of England and metropolitane	Sandys, Edwin, 1516?-1588.	1585 (1585)	STC 21713; ESTC S116708	357,744	396

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