Selected quad for the lemma: world_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	darkness_n	light_n	light_v	5,748	5	10.2934	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19143	The sermo[n] of doctor Colete, made to the conuocacion at Paulis; Oratio habita a D. Ioanne Colet ad clerum in convocatione. English	Colet, John, 1467?-1519.; Lupset, Thomas, 1495?-1530.	1530 (1530)	STC 5550; ESTC S111695	9,978	44

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