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	part_n	8,155	5	4.9083	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44901	A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable George Earl of Berkley, governour, and the Company of Merchants of England trading in the Levant seas At St. Peter's Church in Broadstreet, Nov. 18. 1683. By John Hughes, A.M. and Fellow of Baliol College in Oxon, and chaplain to his Excellency the Lord Chandois, ambassadour at Constantinople.	Hughes, John, b. 1651?	1683 (1683)	Wing H3313A; ESTC R202531	12,620	31

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