Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	lord_n	love_v	see_v	10,569	5	3.7721	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79552	Saint Chrysostome his Parænesis, or Admonition wherein hee recalls Theodorus the fallen. Or generally an exhortation for desperate sinners. / Translated by the Lord Viscount Grandison prisoner in the Tower.; Parænesis. English	John Chrysostum, Saint, d. 407.; Grandison, William Villiers, Viscount, 1614-1643.	1654 (1654)	Wing C3980; Thomason E1531_2; ESTC R208923	51,851	141

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