Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	receive_v	zeal_n	zealous_a	38	3	9.3992	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28890	The light of the world a most true relation of a pilgrimess, M. Antonia Bourignon travelling towards eternity ... : divided into three parts ... / written originally in French, and faithfully translated into English ; to which is added, a preface to the English reader.; Lumiere du monde. English	Bourignon, Antoinette, 1616-1680.; Cort, Chrétien de, d. 1669.	1696 (1696)	Wing B3842; ESTC R36499	498,584	635

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