Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	act_n	faith_n	soul_n	2,563	5	5.2634	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71133	Some remarkable passages in the holy life and death of the late Reverend Mr. Edmund Trench most of them drawn out of his own diary.	Trench, Edmund, 1643-1689.; Boyse, J. (Joseph), 1660-1728.	1693 (1693)	Wing T2109; ESTC R7785	40,931	132

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