Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	beget_v	son_n	world_n	6,574	5	5.0285	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75470	An Antidote against some principal errors of the predestinarians a work designed for the information of the common people.		1696 (1696)	Wing A3494A; ESTC R42462	23,735	50

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