Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	gentile_n	heart_n	write_v	7,180	5	5.8793	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04961	Spirituall almes a treatise wherein is set forth the necessity, the enforcements, and directions of the duty of exhortation.	A. L., fl. 1625.	1625 (1625)	STC 15103; ESTC S105957	127,652	518

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