Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	believe_v	faith_n	reason_n	4,118	5	5.7721	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34769	The life of John Baptist Colbert, late minister and secretary of state to Lewis XIV, the present French king done into English from a French copy printed at Cologne this present year, 1695.; Vie de Jean-Baptiste Colbert. English	Courtilz de Sandras, Gatien, 1644-1712.	1695 (1695)	Wing C6599; ESTC R8430	128,103	270

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