Selected quad for the lemma: war_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	king_n	law_n	treason_n	4,260	5	9.4113	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60461	Patriæ parricida, or, The history of the horrid conspiracy of Catiline against the commonwealth of Rome translated out of Salust, by C.C.; Bellum Catilinae. English	Sallust, 86-34 B.C.; Calle, Caleb.	1683 (1683)	Wing S409; ESTC R4167	36,887	122

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