Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	holy_a	teach_v	5,964	5	6.2816	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01470	Characters and essayes, by Alexander Garden; Characters upon essaies morall, and divine	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?; Garden, Alexander, 1585?-1634?	1625 (1625)	STC 11595; ESTC S118826	29,544	60

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