Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	better_a	bid_v	great_a	23	3	2.1590	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59169	Hippolitus translated out of Seneca by Edmund Prestwich ; together with divers other poems of the same authors.; Phaedra. English. 1651	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.; Prestwich, Edmund, fl. 1650-1651.	1651 (1651)	Wing S2512; ESTC R37364	63,053	170

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