Selected quad for the lemma: nature_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	dwell_v	fullness_n	godhead_n	2,409	5	10.7976	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53960	A practical discourse upon humility wherein is shewn the nature, reasonableness, and usefulness thereof : together with the ways of expressing and increasing it / by Edward Pelling ...	Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.	1694 (1694)	Wing P1087; ESTC R38182	79,993	207

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