Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	good_a	great_a	king_n	2,352	5	3.6280	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06510	A frutfull sermon of the moost euangelicall wryter M. Luther, made of the angelles vpo[n] the. xviii. chapi. of Mathew translated out of laten in to Englyshe; Predigt von den Engeln. English.	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.; Foxe, John, 1516-1587.	1548 (1548)	STC 16983; ESTC S108954	15,577	56

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