Selected quad for the lemma: sense_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	world_n	wrest_v	write_v	12	3	4.1119	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10701	Faultes faults, and nothing else but faultes	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1606 (1606)	STC 20983; ESTC S115897	70,812	133

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