Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	know_v	read_v	write_v	3,405	5	5.0561	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28549	Summum bonum, or, An explication of the divine goodness in the words of the most renowned Boetius translated by a lover of truth and virtue.; De consolatione philosophiae. English	Boethius, d. 524.; Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1674 (1674)	Wing B3434; ESTC R7385	77,686	220

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