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	way_n	3,966	5	4.6102	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95921	The Count of Gabalis, or, Conferences about secret sciences rendered out of French into English by A.L. ...; Comte de Gabalis. English	Villars, abbé de (Nicolas-Pierre-Henri), 1635-1673.	1680 (1680)	Wing V386B; ESTC R226487	50,429	145

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