Selected quad for the lemma: mind_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mind_n	distinct_a	infinite_a	trinity_n	1,408	5	11.1792	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58367	Reflections on the poems made upon the siege and taking of Namur together with a short answer to the modest examination of the Oxford decree, &c. Lately published. Both in a letter to a friend at Oxon.		1696 (1696)	Wing R710; ESTC R217976	6,394	11

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