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	old_a	time_n	5,304	5	3.8214	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15875	Certeyne preceptes, gathered by Hulrichus Zuinglius, declaring how the ingenious youth ought to be instructed and brought vnto Christ. Translated out of latin into Inglish by master Richard Argentyne Doctour in Physyck; Quo pacto ingenui formandi sint praeceptiones pauculae. English	Zwingli, Ulrich, 1484-1531.; Argentine, Richard, d. 1568.	1548 (1548)	STC 26136; ESTC S105852	16,031	46

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