Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	apostle_n	speak_v	word_n	9,283	5	4.1967	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65909	A few words by way of query to the teachers, and professors, called Presbyterians and Independents with a word of prophesie, in verse : also a word of exhortation and warning of love to them to haste out of Babylon, the mystery of iniquity, into Sion, the City of Holinesse : with a word at last to those that were persecutors / written by ... John Whithowse.	Whitehouse, John, fl. 1662-1663.	1662 (1662)	Wing W1985; ESTC R18048	4,972	10

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