Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	age_n	future_a	great_a	145	3	2.1235	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59484	Two seasonable discourses concerning this present Parliament	Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683.	1675 (1675)	Wing S2906; ESTC R22903	7,518	15

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