Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	affection_n	love_n	love_v	1,790	5	6.3849	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50012	The divine Epicurus, or, The empire of pleasure over the vertues compos'd by A. LeGrand ; and rendred into English by Edward Cooke.	Le Grand, Antoine, d. 1699.; Cooke, Edward, fl. 1678.	1676 (1676)	Wing L949; ESTC R25451	59,225	137

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