Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	government_n	name_n	soil_n	41,238	5	15.5426	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71098	The hairy-giants, or, A description of two islands in the South Sea called by the name of Benganga and Coma discovered by Henry Schooten of Harlem in a voyage began January 1669, and finished October 1671 : also a perfect account of the religion, government, and commodities of those islands, written in Dutch by Henry Schooten ; and now Englished by P.M., Gent.	Schooten, Henry.; P. M., Gent.	1671 (1671)	Wing S888; ESTC R12539	9,879	32

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