Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	know_v	speak_v	4,329	5	4.2546	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86166	Clarastella together with poems occasional, elegies, epigrams, satyrs. / By Robert Heath, Esquire.	Heath, Robert, fl. 1636-1659.	1650 (1650)	Wing H1340A; Thomason E1364_1; ESTC R202387	74,802	191

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