Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	act_n	authority_n	enact_v	904	5	10.1864	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29235	The honest ghost, or, A voice from the vault	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.	1658 (1658)	Wing B4267; ESTC R30243	148,269	338

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