Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	blood_n	body_n	efficacy_n	860	5	10.4794	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62616	Sermons, and discourses some of which never before printed / by John Tillotson ... ; the third volume.; Sermons. Selections	Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.	1687 (1687)	Wing T1253; ESTC R18219	203,250	508

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