Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	extant_a	letter_n	treatise_n	1,937	5	10.1978	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86277	The idea of the lavv charactered from Moses to King Charles. Whereunto is added the idea of government and tyranny. / By John Herdon Gent. Philonomos.	Heydon, John, b. 1629.	1660 (1660)	Wing H1671; Thomason E1916_2; ESTC R210015	93,195	282

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