Selected quad for the lemma: sense_n
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A63840
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A defence of the confuter of Bellarmin's Second note of the church, antiquity, against the cavils of the adviser
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Tullie, George, 1652?-1695.
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1687
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Wing T3236; ESTC R7422
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