Selected quad for the lemma: prayer_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prayer_n	help_v	pray_v	spirit_n	6,478	5	5.9444	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70719	A plain discourse about rash and sinful anger as a help for such as are willing to be relieved against so sad and too generally prevailing a distemper even amongst professors of religion : being the substance of some sermons preached at Manchester in Lancashire / by Henry Newcome ...	Newcome, Henry, 1627-1695.; Howe, John, 1630-1705.; Starkey, John, 17th cent.	1693 (1693)	Wing N898; ESTC R18504	45,498	96

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