Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	affect_v	christian_n	great_a	47	3	2.1250	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25235	The Ambitious practices of France, or, A relation of the ways and methods used by them to attain to that supreame grandeur as also, the secret intrigues of the French king's ministers at the courts of most of the princes and states of Europe : with remarks thereupon, and some reflections on the interest of those princes.		1689 (1689)	Wing A2949; ESTC R8728	42,003	71

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