Selected quad for the lemma: nature_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	admirable_a	form_n	great_a	37	3	2.0859	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61196	Essayes with brief adviso's accomodated capacity of the ladyes and gentlemen, sometime students of the English academy lately erected at London : to whose use and perusall they are recommended in exchange of their English lectures of late published.	Sprigg, William, fl. 1657.	1657 (1657)	Wing S5080; ESTC R32658	25,281	116

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