Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	woman_n	world_n	worldly_a	20	3	8.2361	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03620	Certeine comfortable expositions of the constant martyr of Christ, M. Iohn Hooper, Bishop of Glocester and Worcester written in the time of his tribulation and imprisonment, vpon the XXIII. LXII. LXXIII. and LXXVII. Psalmes of the prophet Dauid.	Hooper, John, d. 1555.; Bull, Henry, d. 1575?; A. F., fl. 1580.; Hooper, John, d. 1555. Exposition upon the. 23. psalme of David.	1580 (1580)	STC 13743; ESTC S104196	167,330	255

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psal._n 129._o 2._o thes._n 3._o gala._n 1_o ezech._n 34._o act_n 20._o antoninus_n histor_n tit_n 13._o 3._o 23._o 13._o distinct._n 99_o nullus_fw-la antoninus_n tit_n 12._o cap._n 3._o de_fw-fr gestis_fw-la longobard_fw-mi lib._n 3._o cap._n 12._o in_o leon._n 2._o platina_n in_o bonifac._n 3_o paulus_n diaconus_fw-la de_fw-la gestis_fw-la long._n lib._n 4._o cap._n 11._o de_fw-fr simplicitate_fw-la clericorum_fw-la to_o be_v call_v pope_n be_v at_o the_o first_o general_n to_o all_o bishop_n histor._n lib._n 2._o cap._n 27._o gal._n 2._o con._n nicen_n cap._n 6._o he_o mean_v here_o authority_n to_o elect_v bishop_n &_o to_o have_v power_n of_o both_o sword_n alberus_n crantzius_n ecclesiast_fw-la histor_n li._n 6._o abbas_n vspergensis_n in_o svo_fw-la chronico_fw-la platina_n in_o alex._n 3._o psalm_n 16._o 2_o cor._n 13._o rom._n 8._o when_o do_v the_o soul_n of_o man_n wait_v upon_o the_o lord_n in_o the_o day_n of_o trouble_n or_o else_o have_v silence_n job._n 1._o job._n 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