Selected quad for the lemma: nation_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nation_n	know_v	let_v	people_n	4,791	5	5.9690	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85251	A few words to the people of England, who have had a day of visitation, not to slight time but prize it, least ye perish.	Fell, Christopher.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1659. A warning to all the rulers in these nations.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1659. A warning to all the world.; T. W. (Thomas Wooddrove). A lamentation over all England.	1655 (1655)	Wing F840; ESTC R206651	13,069	16

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