Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	blood_n	body_n	heart_n	5,603	5	5.0093	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20496	A briefe and short discourse of the vertue and operation of balsame with an instruction for those that haue their health to preserue the same. VVhereunto is added Doctor Bullins diet for health.	Bullein, William, d. 1576.	1585 (1585)	STC 6905; ESTC S115969	3,693	18

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