Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	way_n	6,943	5	4.6241	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42149	The Catholique doctor and his spiritual catholicon to cure our sinfull soules a communion-sermon preach'd to the Right Honourable Sr. Robert Foster Lord Chief Justice of the King's bench, and the rest of the reverend judges, and serjeants at law, in Serjeants-Inn in Fleetstreet, on Sunday May the 26th, 1661 / by Matthevv Griffith ...	Griffith, Matthew, 1599?-1665.; Foster, Robert, Sir, 1589-1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing G2010; ESTC R2789	24,194	37

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