Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	holy_a	word_n	write_a	2,748	5	10.3718	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82017	An exact history of the life of James Naylor with his parents, birth, education, profession, actions, & blaspheemies [sic]. Also how he came first to be a Quaker, and received his commission from heaven (as he saith) when he was in the field at plow. Taken from his own mouth. With the doctrines, tenets and practises of some other of the same sect. / By John Deacon.	Deacon, John, 17th cent.	1657 (1657)	Wing D482; Thomason E903_2; ESTC R207417	25,672	56

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