Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	woman_n	year_n	young_a	77	3	5.7349	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26221	Memoirs of the court of Spain in two parts / written by an ingenious French lady ; done into English by T. Brown.; Mémoires de la cour d'Espagne. English	Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine), 1650 or 51-1705.; Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.	1692 (1692)	Wing A4220; ESTC R13347	229,310	448

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