Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	heart_n	lord_n	true_a	3,496	5	4.6032	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95738	Unto the youth of our friends (called Quakers) in the city of Bristol, and elsewhere, and others who may be concerned herein. To be read and practised in the fear of God, in which it was given forth.	Steel, Laurence, d. 1684.	1678 (1678)	Wing U102; ESTC R185885	1,957	1

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