Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	protestant_a	protestant_n	4,204	5	8.2770	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52172	The midnight cry a sermon preached on the parable of the ten virgins / by J.M ...	Mason, John, 1646?-1694.	1692 (1692)	Wing M918; ESTC R32054	17,923	30

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