Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	apostle_n	faith_n	grace_n	3,447	5	5.5645	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29270	A sermon preacht in Madrid, July 4, 1666. s.n. occasioned by the sad and much lamented death of his late Excellency Sir Richard Fanshaw Knight and Baronet ... / by Henry Bagshaw.	Bagshaw, Henry, 1632-1709.	1667 (1667)	Wing B431; ESTC R9009	17,214	42

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