Selected quad for the lemma: war_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	death_n	king_n	treason_n	2,761	5	9.5559	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25926	An Account of the sentence that passed upon William, Ld. Russell, Thomas Walcot, John Rouse, and William Hone, at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayley, on the 14th of this instant July, 1683, for high-treason, in traiterously conspiring the death of the king, to leavy war, and raise a rebellion, &c.		1683 (1683)	Wing A384; ESTC R18357	1,032	2

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