Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	great_a	king_n	people_n	13,648	5	4.7769	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03208	The extortioners and stock-jobbers, detected. Or, an infallible receipt for the circulation of money.		1696 (1696)	Wing E3903; ESTC R176898	5,185	4

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