Selected quad for the lemma: war_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	witness_n	woman_n	world_n	13	3	3.5273	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41854	The Great advocate and oratour for women, or, The Arraignment, tryall and conviction of all such wicked husbands (or monsters) who held it lawfull to beate their wives or to demeane themselves severely and tyrannically towards them where their crafty pleas are fully heard and their objections plainly answered and confuted ...		1682 (1682)	Wing G1631; ESTC R40508	48,310	156

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