Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	believe_v	faith_n	know_v	6,721	5	4.2859	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31609	Lithobolia, or, The stone-throwing devil being an exact and true account (by way of journal) of the various actions of infernal spirits, or (devils incarnate) witches, or both, and the great disturbance and amazement they gave to George Waltons family, at a place call'd Great Island in the province of New-Hantshire in New-England ... / by R.C., Esq., who was a sojourner in the same family the whole time, and an ocular witness of these diabolick inventions ...	R. C. (Richard Chamberlayne)	1698 (1698)	Wing C1862; ESTC R8747	13,312	22

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