Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	father_n	holy_a	word_n	4,533	5	4.0905	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09488	Iacobs vovve, or The true historie of tithes: a sermon penned by Richard Perrot Batchelour in Divinitie, vicar of Hessell with the Trinitie Chappell in Kingstone-upon-Hull, and sometimes fellow of Sidney-Sussex-Colledge in Cambridge	R. P. (Richard Perrot), 1584?-1641.	1627 (1627)	STC 19770; ESTC S114570	65,216	102

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