Selected quad for the lemma: sense_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	speak_v	understand_v	word_n	5,901	5	4.4514	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33078	The Church of Rome unmask'd, or her false principles briefly detected with some reasons of so many retaining or returning to communion with her, and the great danger of everlasting destruction, that such persons, especially after separations from her, return to her communion, do run themselves on / written by a learned divine, by way of letter to a friend in the country.	Learned divine.	1679 (1679)	Wing C4196; ESTC R18501	78,331	77

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44.14_o 15_o 16_o 17._o give_v it_o divine_a worship_n perhaps_o they_o may_v think_v as_o the_o papist_n do_v that_o after_o they_o have_v consecrate_a it_o it_o be_v transubstantiate_v too_o and_o cease_v to_o be_v wood_n the_o matter_n and_o substance_n of_o that_o be_v go_v and_o it_o be_v thenceforth_o not_o a_o block_n or_o wood_n but_o real_o a_o god_n and_o have_v power_n to_o help_v and_o save_v its_o worshipper_n as_o the_o poet_n deride_o sing_v of_o their_o priapus_n olim_fw-la truncus_fw-la eram_fw-la ficulnus_fw-la inutile_fw-la lignum_fw-la cùm_fw-la faber_n incertus_fw-la scamnum_fw-la faceret_fw-la né_fw-fr priapum_fw-la maluit_fw-la esse_fw-la deum_fw-la whence_o it_o may_v say_v

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