Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	church_n	father_n	holy_a	3,725	5	4.8411	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08926	,The detection of a popish cheat, or, A true account of the invention and discovery of the story of a boys conversing with the devil, which has lately occasioned so much noise and so many reports.		1696 (1696)	Wing D1209; ESTC R171758	4,192	2

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