Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	according_a	good_a	word_n	1,776	5	3.8038	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89733	Abel being dead yet speaketh; or, The life & death of that deservedly famous man of God, Mr John Cotton, late teacher of the church of Christ, at Boston in New-England. By John Norton, teacher of the same church.	Norton, John, 1606-1663.	1658 (1658)	Wing N1313; Thomason E937_6; ESTC R207763	38,553	57

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