Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	devil_n	father_n	lie_n	3,415	5	9.0726	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43266	The triumphs of love and constancy a romance, containing the heroick amours of Theagenes & Chariclea : in ten books / the first five rendred by a person of quality, the last five by N. Tate.; Aethiopica. English	Heliodorus, of Emesa.; Person of quality.; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.	1687 (1687)	Wing H1374; ESTC R9072	185,782	392

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