Selected quad for the lemma: world_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	pomp_n	renounce_v	vanity_n	3,174	5	10.1762	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57314	True Christianity vindicated both in præceding, present, and succeeding ages, and the difference between them who are Christians indeed, and them who are falsly so called manifested : being a collection of the several testimonies of the antient writers of the doctrine, lives and manners of the primitive Christians many ages ago, which being found coherent with the doctrine, lives and manners of the true Christians, who are nick named Quakers at this day, are therefore made publick / by Ambros Rigge.	Rigge, Ambrose, 1635?-1705.	1679 (1679)	Wing R1498; ESTC R17008	20,881	34

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