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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
word_n	holy_a	spirit_n	trinity_n	2,812	5	9.9722	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63481	A True copy of a petition presented in July 1683 to the most Christian King by deputies, from those of his subjects who are of the reformed religion, whose churches have been taken from them, and demolished, and since that, have assembled in the open fields, but after prayer, preaching, and receiving of the Holy Sacrament, return'd in all peaceable manner to their respective habitations / translated from the French printed copy by a sure hand ...		1683 (1683)	Wing T2630; ESTC R7404	3,102	4

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