Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	divine_a	faith_n	infallible_a	2,020	5	9.1150	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96402	Historical reflections on the Bishop of Rome: chiefly discovering those events of humane affaires which most advanced the papal usurpation. By John Wagstaff, M.A. O.C.	Wagstaffe, John, 1633-1677.	1660 (1660)	Wing W196; Thomason E1035_9	19,265	43

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