Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	world_n	worthy_a	year_n	65	3	4.3094	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35254	A view of the English acquisitions in Guinea and the East Indies with an account of the religion, government, wars, strange customs, beasts, serpents, monsters, and other observables in those countries : together with a description of the Isle of St. Helena and the Bay of Sculdania where the English usually refresh in their voyages to the Indies : intermixt with pleasant relations and enlivened with picture / by R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1686 (1686)	Wing C7356; ESTC R27846	109,445	213

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