Selected quad for the lemma: world_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	father_n	holy_a	sinner_n	3,829	5	9.2287	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69138	A treatyse of the donation or gyfte and endowme[n]t of possessyons, gyuen and graunted vnto Syluester pope of Rhome, by Constantyne emperour of Rome [and] what truth is in the same grau[n] thou mayst se, and rede ye iugement of certayne great lerned men, whose names on the other page of this leafe done appere.; De falso credita et ementita Constantini donatione declamatio. English	Valla, Lorenzo, 1406-1457.; Hutten, Ulrich von, 1488-1523.; Marshall, William, fl. 1535.	1534 (1534)	STC 5641; ESTC S107251	117,474	146

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