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	sting_n	victory_n	6,058	5	10.0485	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66073	Characters of a sincere heart and the comforts thereof collected out of the Word of God by Hen. Wilkinson.	Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.	1674 (1674)	Wing W2229; ESTC R27587	61,872	145

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