Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	write_v	year_n	youth_n	46	3	7.7706	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20637	LXXX sermons preached by that learned and reverend divine, Iohn Donne, Dr in Divinity, late Deane of the cathedrall church of S. Pauls London	Donne, John, 1572-1631.; Donne, John, 1604-1662.; Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650, engraver.; Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.	1640 (1640)	STC 7038; ESTC S121697	1,472,759	883

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