Selected quad for the lemma: sense_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	faith_n	true_a	word_n	6,429	5	4.5511	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40051	Four great and horrible murders, or, Bloody nevvs from Islington being a full and true relation how a womans brains were knockt out with her own pattin, rob'd, and her throat cut, on Fryday the 5th of February instant, a man beaten to death the 8th of the same month, and a woman drowned her self in a pond at Islington : likewise a maid barbarously murdred at Chester by two villains ... for which they were condemned ... the 23 of January last, and hanged ...		1674 (1674)	Wing F1656; ESTC R226823	3,152	8

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