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	writing_n	yield_v	15	3	6.4826	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15775	The passions of the minde in generall. Corrected, enlarged, and with sundry new discourses augmented. By Thomas Wright. With a treatise thereto adioyning of the clymatericall yeare, occasioned by the death of Queene Elizabeth	Wright, Thomas, d. 1624.; Wright, Thomas, d. 1624. Succinct philosophicall declaration of the nature of clymactericall yeeres, occasioned by the death of Queene Elizabeth. aut	1604 (1604)	STC 26040; ESTC S121118	206,045	400

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