Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	holy_a	soul_n	16,669	5	5.2335	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40257	Something in answer to a law lately made at the first sessions of the General Court held at Boston in New-England, May the 28th, 1679 : and published by their order, Edw. Rawson, Secretary : the title of the law, viz. Meeting-houses not to be erected without licence, &c.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1679 (1679)	Wing F1911; ESTC R36421	11,382	20

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