Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	know_v	life_n	way_n	7,983	5	5.4628	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66946	A vindication of the historiographer of the University of Oxford, and his works from the reproaches of the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, in his letter to the Lord Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, concerning a book lately published, called, A specimen of some errors and defects in the history of the reformation of the Church of England, by Anthony Hurmer, written by E.D. ; to which is added the historiographer's answer to certain animadversions made in the before-mention'd History of the Reformation, to that part of Histroia & antiquitates Universitatis Oxon, which treats of the divorce of Queen Catherine from King Henry the Eighth.	Wood, Thomas, 1661-1722.; E. D.	1693 (1693)	Wing W3412; ESTC R22497	12,326	32

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