Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	epistle_n	new_a	testament_n	2,624	5	8.0045	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01627	The regiment of the pouertie. Compiled by a learned diuine of our time D. Andreas Hyperius. And now seruing very fitly for the present state of this realme. Translated into Englishe by H.T. minister	Hyperius, Andreas, 1511-1564.; Tripp, Henry, d. 1612.	1572 (1572)	STC 11759; ESTC S103064	57,526	158

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