Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	dissolve_v	effect_n	great_a	51	3	2.1604	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67477	Health's new store-house opened offering to familiar use such supplies as are most wanting and really needful to humane frailty. By health's student.	Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.	1661 (1661)	Wing W683A; ESTC R219279	14,204	35

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