Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	christian_a	church_n	profess_v	3,448	5	8.0722	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33417	Certain letters written to severall persons	Capel of Hadham, Arthur Capel, Baron, 1610?-1649.; Morley, George, 1597-1684.	1654 (1654)	Wing C465; ESTC R22646	20,606	50

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