Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	act_v	affection_n	great_a	24	3	2.0729	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59472	An inquiry concerning virtue in two discourses, viz., I. of virtue and the belief of a deity, II. of the obligations to virtue.	Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1671-1713.	1699 (1699)	Wing S2892; ESTC R21267	85,423	204

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