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	lord_n	word_n	6,765	5	4.1109	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27894	A few words in true love written to the old long sitting Parliament who are yet left alive, and do sit there now in the Parliament House at Westminster	Bache, Humphrey.	1659 (1659)	Wing B253; ESTC R2665	10,183	12

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