Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	great_a	speak_v	write_v	2,771	5	5.0404	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16116	A compendious olde treatyse, shewynge howe that we oughte to haue ye scripture in Englysshe	Ullerston, Richard, d. 1423.; Purvey, John, 1353?-1428?, attributed name.; Barlow, Jerome, fl. 1527.; Tyndale, William, d. 1536.; Roy, William, fl. 1527-1531.	1530 (1530)	STC 3021; ESTC S104619	9,417	18

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