Selected quad for the lemma: war_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	army_n	great_a	king_n	9,268	5	3.6856	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A24246	An Account from Flanders of the strange and wonderful finding out at Namur the body of an ancient monk, (whole and uncorrupt in a vault) who had layn buried there above 500 years : with an account of a prophecy accidentally found in the said vault, plainly foretelling the speedy subversion of the French monarchy, by the confederate forces.		1693 (1693)	Wing A171A; ESTC R39884	3,151	6

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