Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	good_a	grace_n	work_n	6,662	5	5.6625	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86393	The history of Olivaires of Castile and Arthur of Dalgarve translated out of Spanish into the Italian tongue by Francesco Portonari, and from the Italian made English by Mark Micklethwait ...; Olivier de Castille (Romance). English. Micklethwait.	Micklethwait, Mark.	1695 (1695)	Wing H2128A; ESTC R42745	79,043	266

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