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	world_n	write_v	3,052	5	5.1732	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53763	The Oxford-antiquity examined wherein is briefly shewn the notorious falshoods in the Greek manuscript, said to be translated by Humphrey Hody, B.D. of Wadham College, Oxon., which the better to recommend to the world, he entitles The unreasonableness of a separation from the bishops &c.		1691 (1691)	Wing O849; ESTC R31774	11,522	15

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