Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	hear_v	speak_v	word_n	7,138	5	4.4441	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93989	Strange and vvonderful news, or, The Full and true relation of the miraculous inspiration of Charles Bennet, born at Manchester in Lancashire vvho being but three years of age, speaks without the least instruction, English, Latine, Greek, and Hebrew ... : as also the account of his earnest desire to speak with His Majesty, the which he effected ... Munday the 30th of June 1679 ... with many other circumstances most wonderful and strange to relate.		1679 (1679)	Wing S5871; ESTC R42897	2,712	11

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