Selected quad for the lemma: nation_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nation_n	bring_v	church_n	people_n	1,374	5	4.3145	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85161	The Scot arraigned, and at the bar of justice, reason, and religion, convinced, convicted, and condemned of a most horrid and odious conspiracy and rebellion against the native liberty and birth-right of the Church and free state of England. / By R.F.	R. F.	1651 (1651)	Wing F53; Thomason E632_10; ESTC R206459	4,838	15

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