Selected quad for the lemma: work_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	conscience_n	dead_a	purge_v	5,027	5	9.3264	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36980	The true and absolute bishop with the converts returne unto him : wherein is also shewed how Christ is our only shepheard, as well as our truest bishop : and also, how lamentable and miserable the condition of those men doth appeare to bee, which are out of Christs fold, out of Christs diocesse / by Nicolas Darton ...	Darton, Nicholas, 1603-1649?	1641 (1641)	Wing D273; ESTC R10864	47,823	62

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