Selected quad for the lemma: nature_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	wrong_a	wrong_n	wrong_v	28	3	8.6426	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59472	An inquiry concerning virtue in two discourses, viz., I. of virtue and the belief of a deity, II. of the obligations to virtue.	Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671-1713.	1699 (1699)	Wing S2892; ESTC R21267	85,423	204

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