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	use_v	word_n	2,232	5	3.8507	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41496	Moses made angry, or, A letter written and sent to Dr. Hill, master of Trinity Colledg in Cambridg upon occasion of some hard passages that fell from him in a sermon preached at Pauls, May 4, 1651 / by John Goodwin.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1651 (1651)	Wing G1182; ESTC R37400	8,761	14

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