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	people_n	quaker_n	2,523	5	9.6997	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57584	A scourge for George Whitehead. An apostate Quaker: an espouser of doctrines and practices tending to Romish-like bondage: a persecuting defamer of the real Christian-Quaker: a publick informer against William Pen, to his defamation: the author of a scandalous book, (written against my seventh part of the Christian-Quaker, &c.) stiled, judgment fixed, &c.	Rogers, William, d. ca. 1709.	1683 (1683)	Wing R1860; ESTC R214742	12,611	14

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