Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	christendom_n	concern_v	great_a	14	3	2.1254	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42937	John Gadbury, student in astrology, his past and present opinion of the Ottoman or Turkish power together with what he hath wrote concerning the great and puissant French-king, a prince, if there be truth in the stars, not born to be miserable, as some boldly write, but to be one of the greatest bulwarks of Christendom.; Past and present opinion of the Ottoman or Turkish power	Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.	1683 (1683)	Wing G96; ESTC R11535	5,284	8

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