Selected quad for the lemma: war_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	france_n	king_n	lewis_n	2,769	5	10.1557	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41525	The present state of the princes and republicks of Italy with observations on them / written originally in English by J. Gailhard ...	Gailhard, J. (Jean)	1671 (1671)	Wing G125; ESTC R40437	100,916	272

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