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
A95536	A dialogue between a pedler and a popish priest in a very hot discourse full of mirth, truth, wit, folly and plain dealing / by John Taylor the Water-poet.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1699 (1699)	Wing T451; ESTC R42478	12,850	37

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