Selected quad for the lemma: power_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	want_v	young_a	youth_n	41	3	7.6697	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77305	The circle, or, Conversations on love and gallantry originally in French : now Englished, and since augmented with several new songs, illustrated with musical notes, both treble and base / by Nath. Noel, gent. ...	Montfort, de.; Brémond, Gabriel de.; Noel, Nathaniel.	1675 (1675)	Wing B4345A; ESTC R202999	121,755	271

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