Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	apostle_n	prophet_n	write_v	2,138	5	5.7555	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12434	The lyfe of prestes This present treatyse concernynge thestate and lyfe of chanons, prestes, clerkes, and minystres of the church, was fyrst co[m]pyled in Latyne by the reuerend and deuoute father Dyonisius, sometyme one of the Charterhouse in Ruremond, and taken and exemplifyed with great diligence out of an originall copy, ye which he wrote with his owne hande, and nowe agayne beynge diligently corrected, is tra[n]slated into the Englyshe tonge, vnto the honour of god, and for the vtilitie [and] soule helth of clerkes, [and] other studentes of the same.	Denis, the Carthusian, 1402-1471.	1533 (1533)	STC 6894; ESTC S109804	70,091	178

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