Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	devil_n	fortune_n	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
A31392	A Caution to married couples being a true relation how a man in Nightingale-Lane, having beat and abused his vvife, murthered a tub-man that endevoured to stop him from killing her with a half-pike, for which he was carried to Newgate the 15th of May, 1677.		1677 (1677)	Wing C1561; ESTC R32603	1,829	9

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