Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	appear_v	future_a	great_a	36	3	2.0931	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26452	Advice to English Protestants being a sermon preached November the fifth, 1689 / by a country-conformist.	Country-conformist.	1689 (1689)	Wing A647; ESTC R5998	25,389	38

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