Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	convenient_a	desire_n	great_a	44	3	2.1117	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72311	The Christians journall shewing both the course to be held, and the way to be shund by all those, who desire (as they ought) to enter into life : in three sermons vpon Matthew 7.13.14 / by Samuel Hieron.	Hieron, Samuel, 1576?-1617.	1607 (1607)	STC 13392.7; ESTC S5230	43,055	103

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