Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	art_n	year_n	youth_n	27	3	7.8077	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52417	A collection of miscellanies consisting of poems, essays, discourses, and letters occasionally written / by John Norris ...; Selections. 1687	Norris, John, 1657-1711.; Norris, John, 1657-1711. Idea of happiness, in a letter to a friend.	1687 (1687)	Wing N1248; ESTC R14992	200,150	477

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