Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	age_n	die_v	year_n	5,152	5	5.0012	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26122	The atheist unmasked, or, A confutation of such as deny the being of a supream deity that governs heaven and earth by unanswerable arguments deduc'd ... / by ---- a person of honour.	Person of honour.	1685 (1685)	Wing A4108; ESTC R16362	18,787	24

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