Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	great_a	lord_n	time_n	3,727	5	3.4235	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76439	To his Highness the Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland, &c. The humble petition of Capt. John Bernard now prisoner in Newgate, London, shewing! [sic] that Collonel Wenthrop being under some dangerous delusion and temptation, hath with others continued a conspiracy to destroy your petitioner ever since December 1651. and did justifie three false witnesses the 13. of this instant August in open Court: ...	Bernard, John, Captain.	1657 (1657)	Wing B2004; Thomason 669.f.20[63]; ESTC R212110	2,075	1

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