Selected quad for the lemma: nation_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nation_n	according_a	law_n	time_n	1,324	5	3.7010	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87187	A Designe for plentie, by an universall planting of fruit-trees: tendred by some wel-wishers to the publick.	Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1652 (1652)	Wing H984; Thomason E686_5	16,045	32

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