Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	confirm_v	doctrine_n	miracle_n	2,757	5	8.8552	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28908	Pandaemonium, or, The devil's cloyster being a further blow to modern sadduceism, proving the existence of witches and spirits, in a discourse deduced from the fall of the angels, the propagation of Satans kingdom before the flood, the idolatry of the ages after greatly advancing diabolical confederacies, with an account of the lives and transactions of several notorious witches : also, a collection of several authentick relations of strange apparitions of dæmons and spectres, and fascinations of witches, never before printed / by Richard Bovet ...	Bovet, Richard, b. ca. 1641.	1684 (1684)	Wing B3864; ESTC R15851	101,986	250

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exemp_n tit._n ros_n exemp_n 1._o attich_n cron._n ord._n minim_n a_o 1612._o chron._n diep_n a_o 1561._o oliver_n l._n mirac_n mar._n montis_fw-la albert._n de_fw-fr viris_fw-la illust_n ord._n praedic_fw-la epiphan_n contr._n haeres_fw-la l._n 3._o adv_n collyrid_a august_n contr_n faust_n l._n 20._o c._n 21_o 22._o idem_fw-la de_fw-la vera_fw-la relig._n c._n 25._o idem_fw-la de_fw-la civit._fw-la l._n 10._o c._n 7._o ibid._n c._n 16._o ibid._n c._n 7._o item_n l._n 9_o c._n 23._o caesarius_n l._n 7._o hist_o c._n 25._o leander_n de_fw-fr viris_fw-la illust_n chron._n diep_n a_o 1372._o chron._n diep_n a_o 1178._o franc._n hierasc_n in_o vita_fw-la henr._n silice_fw-la odo_n gisseus_fw-la hist_n virg_n aniciensis_fw-la in_o vita_fw-la manaveriap_n sur_fw-fr 5._o jun._n arch._n gian_n cent_n 3._o annal._n