Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49487	Dr. Martin Luthers prophecies of the destruction of Rome and the downfall of the Romish religion. And how the Papists for treachery and hypocrisie shall at last become hated, and contemned [sic] by all nations. Here are likewise some of the eminent prophecies of that most learned mathematician and prophet Michael Nostredamus, concerning England and France, and those strange occurrences which are likely to happen to both those countreys in these later dayes, with an account of some of the prophecies of Michael Nostredamus which have been fulfilled here in England already. Luther's motto writ by himself. Licensed, May 7. 1679.	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.; Nostradamus, 1503-1566.	1679 (1679)	Wing L3514; ESTC R211089	4,798	10

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