Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	great_a	year_n	yoke_n	18	3	8.8271	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10338	The prophecie of Obadiah opened and applyed in sundry learned and gracious sermons preached at All-Hallowes and St Maries in Oxford by that famous and iudicious divine Iohn Rainolds D. of Divinity and late president of Corp. Chr. Coll. Published for the honour and vse of that famous Vniversity, and for the benefit of the churches of Christ abroad in the country, by W.H.	Rainolds, John, 1549-1607.; Rainolds, John, 1549-1607. Sermon upon part of the eighteenth Psalm. aut; Hinde, William, 1569?-1629.	1613 (1613)	STC 20619; ESTC S115589	99,467	170

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