Selected quad for the lemma: sense_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	meaning_n	true_a	word_n	6,122	5	4.4275	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60757	Some account of the tryals and condemnation of five notorious Jesuits, popish priests, & traytors (viz.) Thomas White, alias Whitebread, William Harcourt, John Fenwick, John Gavern, alias Gawen, Anthony Turner, and Mr. Langhorn the councellor, found guilty of high treason for conspiring to murder the King, subvert the government, root out of the Protestant religion, and establish popery &c. : on a fair tryal by virtue of a commission of Oyer and Terminer at the Old-Baily, June the 13th and 14th, 1679.		1679 (1679)	Wing S4469B; ESTC R26929	3,299	8

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