Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	people_n	speak_v	word_n	3,971	5	4.1039	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59596	Female falshood, or, The Unfortunate beau contain'd in the genuine memoirs of a late French nobleman / written by Monsieur S. Evremont ; and now made English.	Saint-Evremond, 1613-1703.; Villiers, Pierre de, 1648-1728.	1697 (1697)	Wing S303; ESTC R33704	128,974	288

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