Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	true_a	truth_n	worship_n	10,394	5	8.0358	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06472	The glory of their times. Or The liues of ye primitiue fathers Co[n]tayning their chiefest actions, workes, sentences, and deaths.	Lupton, Donald, d. 1676.; Glover, George, b. ca. 1618, engraver.	1640 (1640)	STC 16943; ESTC S108921	238,060	544

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