Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	death_n	life_n	sin_n	28,930	5	5.1238	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31704	The Character of a quack doctor, or, The Abusive practices of impudent illiterate pretenders to physick exposed		1676 (1676)	Wing C1988; ESTC R29191	5,441	10

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