Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	call_v	holy_a	scripture_n	5,852	5	5.6876	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94255	The learned maid; or, Whether a maid may be a scholar? A logick exercise / written in latine by that incomparable virgin Anna Maria à Schurman of Vtrecht. With some epistles to the famous Gassendus and others.	Schurman, Anna Maria van, 1607-1678.	1659 (1659)	Wing S902; Thomason E1910_3; ESTC R209974	14,161	62

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