Selected quad for the lemma: state_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	become_v	great_a	time_n	1,137	5	3.1510	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46109	An Impartial account of the nature and tendency of the late addresses in a letter to a gentleman in the country.	Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683.	1681 (1681)	Wing I73; ESTC R7672	22,979	40

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