Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	baptize_v	eunuch_n	philip_n	3,839	5	10.4025	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30136	A confession of my faith and a reason of my practice, or, With who, and who not, I can hold church-fellowship, or the communion of saints	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1672 (1672)	Wing B5506; ESTC R36326	44,845	152

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