Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	abase_v	decay_n	mutual_a	14	3	11.1782	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00762	A Godlie treatisse declaryng the benefites, fruites, and great commodities of prayer and also the true vse therof. Written in Latin, fourtie yeres past, by an Englyshe man, of great vertue [and] learnyng. And lately translated into Englyshe. 1560.; Tractatus de orando Deum. English	Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535.; Montagu, Anthony Browne, Viscount, ca. 1528-1592.	1560 (1560)	STC 10888; ESTC S114263	34,037	100

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